- Man is in the prison of this world in order that peradventure his insolvency may be proven.
- آدمی در حبس دنیا ز آن بود ** تا بود کافلاس او ثابت شود
- Our God has also proclaimed in our Qur’án the insolvency of the Devil,
- مفلسی دیو را یزدان ما ** هم منادی کرد در قرآن ما
- Saying, “He is a swindler and insolvent and liar: do not make any partnership or do any trade with him.” 655
- کاو دغا و مفلس است و بد سخن ** هیچ با او شرکت و سودا مکن
- And if you do so (and) bring (vain) pretexts to him, he is insolvent: how will you get profit from him?
- ور کنی او را بهانه آوری ** مفلس است او صرفه از وی کی بری
- When the trouble started, they brought on the scene the camel of a Kurd who sold firewood.
- حاضر آوردند چون فتنه فروخت ** اشتر کردی که هیزم میفروخت
- The helpless Kurd made a great outcry; he also gladdened the officer (appointed to seize the camel) with (the gift of) a dáng;
- کرد بیچاره بسی فریاد کرد ** هم موکل را به دانگی شاد کرد
- (But) they took away his camel from the time of forenoon until nightfall, and his lamentation was of no use.
- اشترش بردند از هنگام چاشت ** تا شب و افغان او سودی نداشت
- Upon the camel sat that sore famine (the insolvent), while the owner of the camel was running at its heels. 660
- بر شتر بنشست آن قحط گران ** صاحب اشتر پی اشتر دوان
- They sped from quarter to quarter and from street to street, till the whole town knew him by sight.
- سو به سو و کو به کو میتاختند ** تا همه شهرش عیان بشناختند
- Before every bath and market-place all the people gazed on his (features and) figure.
- پیش هر حمام و هر بازارگاه ** کرده مردم جمله در شکلش نگاه