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647-671

  • Every one whom the Cadi questioned about his condition said, “My lord, wash thy hands of this insolvent.”
  • The Cadi said, “March him round the city for all to see, (and cry), ‘This man is an insolvent and a great rogue.’
  • Make proclamations concerning him, street by street; beat the drum (as an advertisement) of his insolvency everywhere in open view.
  • Let no one sell to him on credit, let no one lend him a farthing. 650
  • Whosoever may bring here a claim against him for fraud, I will not put him in prison any more.
  • His insolvency has been proven to me: he has nothing in his possession, (neither) money nor goods.”
  • Man is in the prison of this world in order that peradventure his insolvency may be proven.
  • Our God has also proclaimed in our Qur’án the insolvency of the Devil,
  • Saying, “He is a swindler and insolvent and liar: do not make any partnership or do any trade with him.” 655
  • And if you do so (and) bring (vain) pretexts to him, he is insolvent: how will you get profit from him?
  • When the trouble started, they brought on the scene the camel of a Kurd who sold firewood.
  • The helpless Kurd made a great outcry; he also gladdened the officer (appointed to seize the camel) with (the gift of) a dáng;
  • (But) they took away his camel from the time of forenoon until nightfall, and his lamentation was of no use.
  • Upon the camel sat that sore famine (the insolvent), while the owner of the camel was running at its heels. 660
  • They sped from quarter to quarter and from street to street, till the whole town knew him by sight.
  • Before every bath and market-place all the people gazed on his (features and) figure.
  • (There were) ten loud-voiced criers, Turks and Kurds and Anatolians and Arabs, (proclaiming),
  • “This man is insolvent and has nothing: let no one lend him a single brass farthing;
  • He does not possess a single mite, patent or latent: he is a bankrupt, a piece of falsehood, a cunning knave, an oil-bag. 665
  • Beware and beware! Have no dealings with him; when he brings the ox (to sell), make fast the knot.
  • And if ye bring this decayed fellow to judgement, I will not put a corpse in prison.
  • He is fair-spoken and his throat is very wide; (he is clad) with a new inner garment (of plausibility) and a tattered outer garment.
  • If he puts on that (inner) garment for the purpose of deceiving, it is borrowed in order that he may beguile the common folk.”
  • Know, O simple man, that words of wisdom on the tongue of the unwise are (as) borrowed robes. 670
  • Although a thief has put on a (fine) robe, how should he whose hand is cut off take your hand (lend you a helping hand)?