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  • گفت بس بی‌شرم پیری ای پدر  ** پیر گفت از من توی بی‌شرم‌تر 
  • He (the Sadr) said, “You are a very shameless old man, O father.” The old man replied, “Thou art more shameless than I,

  • کین جهان خوردی و خواهی تو ز طمع  ** کان جهان با این جهان گیری به جمع  3815
  • For thou hast enjoyed this world, and in thy greed thou wouldst fain take the other world (to enjoy it) together with this world.”

  • خنده‌اش آمد مال داد آن پیر را  ** پیر تنها برد آن توفیر را 
  • He (the Sadr) laughed and gave the old man some money: the old man alone obtained the bounty.

  • غیر آن پیر ایچ خواهنده ازو  ** نیم حبه زر ندید و نه تسو 
  • Except that old man none of those who begged (aloud) saw half a mite or a single farthing of his money.

  • نوبت روز فقیهان ناگهان  ** یک فقیه از حرص آمد در فغان 
  • On the day when it was the turn of the jurists (to receive alms), a certain jurist, (impelled) by cupidity, suddenly began to whine.

  • کرد زاری‌ها بسی چاره نبود  ** گفت هر نوعی نبودش هیچ سود 
  • He made many piteous appeals, but there was no help (for him); he uttered every kind (of entreaty), but it availed him naught.

  • روز دیگر با رگو پیچید پا  ** ناکس اندر صف قوم مبتلا  3820
  • Next day he wrapped his leg in rags (and stood) in the row of the sufferers (from illness), hanging his head.

  • تخته‌ها بر ساق بست از چپ و راست  ** تا گمان آید که او اشکسته‌پاست 
  • He tied splints on his shank, left and right, in order that it might be supposed that his leg was broken.

  • دیدش و بشناختش چیزی نداد  ** روز دیگر رو بپوشید از لباد 
  • He (the Sadr) saw and recognised him and did not give him anything. Next day he covered his face with a rain-cloak,

  • هم بدانستش ندادش آن عزیز  ** از گناه و جرم گفتن هیچ چیز 
  • (But) the noble lord knew him still and gave him nothing because of the sin and crime (which he had committed) by speaking.

  • چونک عاجز شد ز صد گونه مکید  ** چون زنان او چادری بر سر کشید 
  • When he had failed in a hundred sorts of trickery, he drew a chádar over his head, like women,

  • در میان بیوگان رفت و نشست  ** سر فرو افکند و پنهان کرد دست  3825
  • And went and sat down amongst the widows, and let his head droop and concealed his hands.

  • هم شناسیدش ندادش صدقه‌ای  ** در دلش آمد ز حرمان حرقه‌ای 
  • Still he (the Sadr) recognised him and did not give him any alms: on account of the disappointment a (feeling of) burning grief came into his heart.

  • رفت او پیش کفن‌خواهی پگاه  ** که بپیچم در نمد نه پیش راه 
  • He went early in the morning to a purveyor of grave-clothes, saying, “Wrap me in a felt (shroud) and lay me out on the road.

  • هیچ مگشا لب نشین و می‌نگر  ** تا کند صدر جهان اینجا گذر 
  • Do not open thy lips at all, (but) sit down and look on till the Sadr-i Jahán passes here.

  • بوک بیند مرده پندار به ظن  ** زر در اندازد پی وجه کفن 
  • Maybe he will see (me) and suppose that I am dead and drop some money to cover the cost of the shroud.

  • هر چه بدهد نیم آن بدهم به تو  ** هم‌چنان کرد آن فقیر صله‌جو  3830
  • I will pay thee half of whatever he may give.” The poor man, desiring the (expected) present, did just as he was told.

  • در نمد پیچید و بر راهش نهاد  ** معبر صدر جهان آنجا فتاد 
  • He wrapped him in the felt and laid him out on the road. The Sadr-i Jahán happened to pass that way

  • زر در اندازید بر روی نمد  ** دست بیرون کرد از تعجیل خود 
  • And dropped some gold on the felt (shroud). He (the jurist) put forth his hand in his haste (and fear)

  • تا نگیرد آن کفن‌خواه آن صله  ** تا نهان نکند ازو آن ده‌دله 
  • Lest the purveyor of the grave-clothes should seize the gift of money and lest that perfidious rascal should hide it from him.

  • مرده از زیر نمد بر کرد دست  ** سر برون آمد پی دستش ز پست 
  • The dead man raised his hand from beneath the felt (shroud), and, following his hand, his head (too) came forth from below.

  • گفت با صدر جهان چون بستدم  ** ای ببسته بر من ابواب کرم  3835
  • He said to the Sadr-i Jahán, “(See) how I have received (it), O thou who didst shut the doors of generosity against me!”

  • گفت لیکن تا نمردی ای عنود  ** از جناب من نبردی هیچ جود 
  • He (the Sadr) replied, “(Yes), but until you died, O obstinate man, you got no bounty from me.”

  • سر موتوا قبل موت این بود  ** کز پس مردن غنیمت‌ها رسد 
  • The mystery of “Die before death” is this, that the prizes come after dying (and not before).

  • غیر مردن هیچ فرهنگی دگر  ** در نگیرد با خدای ای حیله‌گر 
  • Except dying, no other skill avails with God, O artful schemer.