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
This is what happens to form-worshippers: their stone is (made) waxen by a (beauteous) form.
حالت صورتپرستان این بود ** سنگشان از صورتی مومین بود
(Then) again he wrangled and would not be satisfied, saying, “Without any evasion, (thou must) give more than this.”
باز کرد استیزه و راضی نشد ** که برین افزون بده بیهیچ بد
He offered him in addition a nisáb (two hundred dirhems) of silver, so that the Jew's cupidity was satisfied.
یک نصاب نقره هم بر وی فزود ** تا که راضی گشت حرص آن جهود
How the Jew laughed and imagined that the Siddíq had been swindled in this bargain.