Discuss (the matter) with propriety, don't argue: deliver back to me what I delivered to you.
از تو خواهم آن چه من دادم به تو ** باز ده آن چه فرستادم به تو
I demand from you what I gave to you: return that which I sent to you.
بحث با توجیه کن حجت میار ** آن چه بسپردم ترا واپس سپار
The Prophet said that whatever your hand has taken must in the end be restored (to its owner).
گفت پیغمبر که دستت هر چه برد ** بایدش در عاقبت واپس سپرد
And if you, from insolence, are not content with this, look here, let us (go) to the house of the Cadi of (our) religion.”
ور نهای از سرکشی راضی بدین ** نک من و تو خانهی قاضی دین
The servant said, “I was overpowered: the Súfís rushed (on me), and I was in fear for my life.550
گفت من مغلوب بودم صوفیان ** حمله آوردند و بودم بیم جان
Do you throw a liver with the parts next it amongst cats, and (then) seek the trace of it?
تو جگر بندی میان گربگان ** اندر اندازی و جویی ز آن نشان
One cake of bread amongst a hundred hungry people, one wasted (starved) cat before a hundred dogs?”
در میان صد گرسنه گردهای ** پیش صد سگ گربهی پژمردهای
“I suppose,” said the Súfí, “that they took it (the ass) from you by violence, (and thereby) aimed at the life of wretched me;
گفت گیرم کز تو ظلما بستدند ** قاصد خون من مسکین شدند
(And seeing this) you would not come and say to me, ‘They are taking away your ass, O poor man!’
تو نیایی و نگویی مر مرا ** که خرت را میبرند ای بینوا
So that I might buy back the ass from (the purchaser) whoever he is, or else they might divide my money (amongst themselves and return the ass to me).555
تا خر از هر که بود من واخرم ** ور نه توزیعی کنند ایشان زرم