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1198-1207

  • I have not invented this parable, O comrade: do not hear it (as though it were) silly, if thou art worthy and restored to thy senses.
  • این مثل از خود نگفتم ای رفیق ** سرسری مشنو چو اهلی و مفیق

  • The Prophet (Mohammed) said (something like) this, when he heard vituperation (from the infidels who asked), “Why is Ahmad (Mohammed) made fat (happy) by praise?”
  • این پیمبر گفت چون بشنید قدح ** که چرا فربه شود احمد به مدح

  • The poet went to the king and brought a poem in thanks (and praise) for (his) beneficence, saying that it (beneficence) never died. 1200
  • رفت شاعر پیش آن شاه و ببرد ** شعر اندر شکر احسان کان نمرد

  • The beneficent died, and (their) acts of beneficence remained: oh, blest is he that rode this steed!
  • محسنان مردند و احسانها بماند ** ای خنک آن را که این مرکب براند

  • The unjust died, and those acts of injustice remained: alas for the soul that practises deceit and fraud!
  • ظالمان مردند و ماند آن ظلمها ** وای جانی کو کند مکر و دها

  • The Prophet said, “Blest is he who departed from this world and left good deeds behind him.”
  • گفت پیغامبر خنک آن را که او ** شد ز دنیا ماند ازو فعل نکو

  • The beneficent man died, but his beneficence died not: with God, religion (piety) and beneficence are not of small account.
  • مرد محسن لیک احسانش نمرد ** نزد یزدان دین و احسان نیست خرد

  • Alas for him who died and whose disobedience (to God) died not: beware of thinking that by death he saved his soul (from punishment). 1205
  • وای آنکو مرد و عصیانش نمود ** تا نپنداری به مرگ او جان ببرد

  • Dismiss this (topic), for the poet is on the way—in debt and mightily in need of gold.
  • این رها کن زانک شاعر بر گذر ** وام‌دارست و قوی محتاج زر

  • The poet brought the poem to the king in hope of (receiving) last year's donation and benefit—
  • برد شاعر شعر سوی شهریار ** بر امید بخشش و احسان پار