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1557-1581

  • بر نشست او نه پشت خر سزد  ** پشت تابوتیش اولیتر سزد 
  • The back of an ass is not his proper seat: the back of a bier is more fitting for him.          

  • ظلم چه بود وضع غیر موضعش  ** هین مکن در غیر موضع ضایعش 
  • What is injustice? To put (a thing) out of its proper place: beware, do not let it be lost (by putting it) out of its place.”

  • گفت صوفی پس روا داری که او  ** سیلیم زد بی‌قصاص و بی‌تسو 
  • The Súfi said, “Then do you think it right for him to slap me without (my taking) retaliation and without (his paying) a farthing?

  • این روا باشد که خر خرسی قلاش  ** صوفیان را صفع اندازد بلاش  1560
  • Is it right that a big rascally bear should inflict slaps on Súfis for nothing?”

  • گفت قاضی تو چه داری بیش و کم  ** گفت دارم در جهان من شش درم 
  • The Cadi said (to the defendant), “What (coins) have you, larger or smaller?” He replied, “I have (only) six dirhems in the world.”

  • گفت قاضی سه درم تو خرج کن  ** آن سه دیگر را به او ده بی‌سخن 
  • Said the Cadi, “Spend three dirhems (on yourself) and give the other three to him without (any further) words.

  • زار و رنجورست و درویش و ضعیف  ** سه درم در بایدش تره و رغیف 
  • (For,” he thought to himself), “he (the defendant) is weak and ill and poor and infirm: he will need three dirhems for vegetables and loaves.”

  • بر قفای قاضی افتادش نظر  ** از قفای صوفی آن بد خوب‌تر 
  • His (the defendant’s) eye fall on the nape of the Cadi’s neck: it was better (more inviting) than the nape of the Súfi.

  • راست می‌کرد از پی سیلیش دست  ** که قصاص سیلیم ارزان شدست  1565
  • He raised his hand to slap it, saying (to himself), “The retaliation (penalty) for my slap has been made cheap.”

  • سوی گوش قاضی آمد بهر راز  ** سیلیی آورد قاضی را فراز 
  • He approached the Cadi’s ear (as though) for the purpose of (whispering) a secret, and dealt the Cadi a (severe) blow with his palm.

  • گفت هر شش را بگیرید ای دو خصم  ** من شوم آزاد بی خرخاش و وصم 
  • “O my two enemies,” he cried, “take all the six dirhems: (then) I shall be free (from care and) without trouble and anxiety.”

  • طیره شدن قاضی از سیلی درویش و سرزنش کردن صوفی قاضی را 
  • How the Cadi was incensed fry the slap of the poor (sick) man and how the Súfi taunted the Cadi.

  • گشت قاضی طیره صوفی گفت هی  ** حکم تو عدلست لاشپک نیست غی 
  • The Cadi was incensed. “Hey,” cried the Súfi, “your decision is just, no doubt (about it): there is no error.

  • آنچ نپسندی به خود ای شیخ دین  ** چون پسندی بر برادر ای امین 
  • O Shaykh of the (Mohammedan) religion, how can you approve for a brother (Moslem) what you disapprove for your self, O man of trust?

  • این ندانی که می من چه کنی  ** هم در آن چه عاقبت خود افکنی  1570
  • Don’t you know this, that (if) you dig a pit for me you will at last let yourself fall into the same pit?

  • من حفر برا نخواندی از خبر  ** آنچ خواندی کن عمل جان پدر 
  • Haven’t you read in the Traditions (of the Prophet), ‘Whoever digs a pit (for his brother will fall into it)’? Practise what you have read, O soul of your father!

  • این یکی حکمت چنین بد در قضا  ** که ترا آورد سیلی بر قفا 
  • This one judicial decision of yours was like this, for it has brought you a slap on the nape.

  • وای بر احکام دیگرهای تو  ** تا چه آرد بر سر و بر پای تو 
  • Alas for your other (unjust) decisions! (Consider) what (penalty) they will bring upon your head and feet.

  • ظالمی را رحم آری از کرم  ** که برای نفقه بادت سه درم 
  • From kindness you take pity on a wrong-doer, saying, ‘Mayst thou have three dirhems to spend (on food)!’

  • دست ظالم را ببر چه جای آن  ** که بدست او نهی حکم و عنان  1575
  • Cut off the wrong-doer’s hand: what occasion is there for you to put the control and reins in his hand?

  • تو بدان بز مانی ای مجهول‌داد  ** که نژاد گرگ را او شیر داد 
  • O you from whom justice is unknown, you resemble the goat that gave her milk to the wolf-cub.”

  • جواب دادن قاضی صوفی را 
  • The Cadi’s reply to the Súfi.

  • گفت قاضی واجب آیدمان رضا  ** هر قفا و هر جفا کارد قضا 
  • The Cadi said, “It is our duty to acquiesce, whatever slap or cruelty the (Divine) destiny may bring to pass.

  • خوش‌دلم در باطن از حکم زبر  ** گرچه شد رویم ترش کالحق مر 
  • I am inwardly pleased with the decision (inscribed) in the (Heavenly) Scrolls, though my face has become sour—for Truth is bitter.

  • این دلم باغست و چشمم ابروش  ** ابر گرید باغ خندد شاد و خوش 
  • This heart of mine is an orchard, and my eye is like the cloud: (when) the cloud weeps the orchard laughs joyously and happily.

  • سال قحط از آفتاب خیره‌خند  ** باغها در مرگ و جان کندن رسند  1580
  • In a year of drought the orchards are reduced to death and agony by the sun laughing unconscionably.

  • ز امر حق وابکوا کثیرا خوانده‌ای  ** چون سر بریان چه خندان مانده‌ای 
  • You have read in God’s Commandment (the words) and weep ye much: why have you remained grinning like a roast (sheep’s) head?