- Mustafá said to him, “O seeker of (spiritual) fortune, I will be thy partner in this (enterprise).
- مصطفی گفتش کای اقبال‌جو ** اندرین من می‌شوم انباز تو
- Be my agent, buy a half share (in him) on my account, and receive the payment from me.” 990
- تو وکیلم باش نیمی بهر من ** مشتری شو قبض کن از من ثمن
- He replied, “I will do my utmost to serve thee.” Then he went to the house of the merciless Jew.
- گفت صد خدمت کنم رفت آن زمان ** سوی خانه‌ی آن جهود بی‌امان
- He said to himself, “From the hands of children one can buy pearls very cheaply, O father.”
- گفت با خود کز کف طفلان گهر ** پس توان آسان خریدن ای پدر
- From these foolish children the ghoul-like Devil is buying their reason and faith in exchange for the kingdom of this world.
- عقل و ایمان را ازین طفلان گول ** می‌خرد با ملک دنیا دیو غول
- He decks out the carcase so finely that (with it) he buys from them two hundred rose-gardens.
- آنچنان زینت دهد مردار را ** که خرد زیشان دو صد گلزار را
- By magic he produces such moonshine that by means of (his) magic he carries off from worthless folk a hundred purses (of money). 995
- آنچنان مهتاب پیماید به سحر ** کز خسان صد کیسه برباید به سحر
- The prophets taught them to trade (in the spiritual market) and lighted the candle of the (true) religion before them;
- انبیاشان تاجری آموختند ** پیش ایشان شمع دین افروختند
- (But) by means of magic and in despite the devilish and ghoulish Magician caused the prophets to appear ugly in their eyes.
- دیو و غول ساحر از سحر و نبرد ** انبیا را در نظرشان زشت کرد
- By (his) sorcery the Foe causes ugliness (to appear), so that divorce takes place between the wife and (her) husband.
- زشت گرداند به جادویی عدو ** تا طلاق افتد میان جفت و شو