- We are sick and surfeited with possessions and gold; we are not like the common folk in regard to coveting and amassing (wealth).
- ما ز مال و زر ملول و تخمهایم ** ما به حرص و جمع نه چون عامهایم
- Our quest is (for) modesty and purity and virtue: truly, welfare in both worlds depends on that.’ 200
- قصد ما سترست و پاکی و صلاح ** در دو عالم خود بدان باشد فلاح
- The Súfí once more made the excuse of poverty and repeated it, so that it should not be hidden.
- باز صوفی عذر درویشی بگفت ** و آن مکرر کرد تا نبود نهفت
- The wife replied, ‘I too have repeated it and have explained our lack of household goods;
- گفت زن من هم مکرر کردهام ** بیجهازی را مقرر کردهام
- (But) her resolution is firmer than a mountain, for she is not dismayed by a hundred poverties.
- اعتقاد اوست راسختر ز کوه ** که ز صد فقرش نمیآید شکوه
- She keeps saying, What I want is chastity: the thing sought from you is sincerity and high-mindedness.’
- او همیگوید مرادم عفتست ** از شما مقصود صدق و همتست
- The Súfí said, ‘In sooth she has seen and is seeing our household goods and possessions, (both) the overt and the covert— 205
- گفت صوفی خود جهاز و مال ما ** دید و میبیند هویدا و خفا
- A narrow house, a dwelling-place for a single person, where a needle would not remain hid.
- خانهی تنگی مقام یک تنی ** که درو پنهان نماند سوزنی
- Moreover, she in (her) guilelessness knows better than we (what is) modesty and purity and renunciation and virtue.
- باز ستر و پاکی و زهد و صلاح ** او ز ما به داند اندر انتصاح
- She knows better than we (all) the aspects of modesty, and the rear and front and head and tail of modesty.
- به ز ما میداند او احوال ستر ** وز پس و پیش و سر و دنبال ستر