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1021-1030

  • The attracting air in the cavity of the ear apprehends that which is spoken, (whether) true or false.
  • در خلای گوش باد جاذبش  ** مدرک صدق کلام و کاذبش 

  • What is that air within that little bone, (that air) which receives the words and sounds uttered by the story-teller?
  • آن چه بادست اندر آن خرد استخوان  ** کو پذیرد حرف و صوت قصه‌خوان 

  • The bone and the air are only a veil: in the two worlds there is none except God.
  • استخوان و باد روپوشست و بس  ** در دو عالم غیر یزدان نیست کس 

  • He is the hearer, He is the speaker, (whom mystics behold) unveiled; for the ears belong to the head, O you who have merited the Divine recompense.
  • مستمع او قایل او بی‌احتجاب  ** زانک الاذنان من الراس ای مثاب 

  • He (the Jew) said, “If thou art feeling pity for him, give (me) gold and take him (in exchange), O man of generous disposition. 1025
  • گفت رحمت گر همی‌آید برو  ** زر بده بستانش ای اکرام‌خو 

  • Since thy heart is burning (with sympathy), ransom him from me: thy difficulty will not be solved without expense.”
  • از منش وا خر چو می‌سوزد دلت  ** بی‌منت حل نگردد مشکلت 

  • He replied, “I will perform a hundred services (on his behalf) and five hundred prostrations (in thanksgiving for success). I have a handsome slave, but (he is) a Jew;
  • گفت صد خدمت کنم پانصد سجود  ** بنده‌ای دارم تن اسپید و جهود 

  • He has a white body, but a black heart: take (him), and give (me) in exchange that one whose body is black but whose heart is illumined.”
  • تن سپید و دل سیاهستش بگیر  ** در عوض ده تن سیاه و دل منیر 

  • Then the chieftain (Abú Bakr) sent (a messenger) to fetch him: in sooth that slave was exceedingly comely,
  • پس فرستاد و بیاورد آن همام  ** بود الحق سخت زیبا آن غلام 

  • So that the Jew was dumbfounded: at once his stony heart inclined (towards him). 1030
  • آنچنان که ماند حیران آن جهود  ** آن دل چون سنگش از جا رفت زود