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  • 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
  • ظاهر و باطن ندارد حبه‏ای ** مفلسی قلبی دغایی دبه‏ای‏

  • Beware and beware! Have no dealings with him; when he brings the ox (to sell), make fast the knot.
  • هان و هان با او حریفی کم کنید ** چون که کاو آرد گره محکم کنید

  • And if ye bring this decayed fellow to judgement, I will not put a corpse in prison.
  • ور به حکم آرید این پژمرده را ** من نخواهم کرد زندان مرده را

  • 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.
  • خوش دم است او و گلویش بس فراخ ** با شعار نو دثار شاخ شاخ‏

  • If he puts on that (inner) garment for the purpose of deceiving, it is borrowed in order that he may beguile the common folk.”
  • گر بپوشد بهر مکر آن جامه را ** عاریه است او و فریبد عامه را

  • Know, O simple man, that words of wisdom on the tongue of the unwise are (as) borrowed robes. 670
  • حرف حکمت بر زبان ناحکیم ** حله‏های عاریت دان ای سلیم‏

  • 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)?
  • گر چه دزدی حله‏ای پوشیده است ** دست تو چون گیرد آن ببریده دست‏

  • When at nightfall he (the insolvent) came down from the camel, the Kurd said to him, “My abode is far (from here) and a long way off.
  • چون شبانه از شتر آمد به زیر ** کرد گفتش منزلم دور است و دیر

  • You have ridden on my camel since early morning: I (will) let the barley go, (but I will not take) less than the cost of (some) straw.”
  • بر نشستی اشترم را از پگاه ** جو رها کردم کم از اخراج کاه‏

  • "What, then," he rejoined, "have we been doing until now? Where are your wits? Is nobody at home?
  • گفت تا اکنون چه می‏کردیم پس ** هوش تو کو، نیست اندر خانه کس‏

  • The (sound of the) drum (giving notice) of my insolvency reached the Seventh Heaven, and you have not heard the bad news! 675
  • طبل افلاسم به چرخ سابعه ** رفت و تو نشنیده‏ای بد واقعه‏

  • Your ear has been filled with foolish hope; (such) hope, then, makes (one) deaf (and) blind, my lad.”
  • گوش تو پر بوده است از طمع خام ** پس طمع کر می‏کند کور ای غلام‏

  • Even clods and stones heard this advertisement—“he is insolvent, he is insolvent, this scoundrel.”
  • تا کلوخ و سنگ بشنید این بیان ** مفلس است و مفلس است این قلتبان‏

  • They (the criers) said it till nightfall, and it made no impression on the owner of the camel, because he was full of (idle) hope, full.
  • تا به شب گفتند و در صاحب شتر ** بر نزد کاو از طمع پر بود پر

  • God's seal lies upon the hearing and sight: within the veils is many a form and many a sound.
  • هست بر سمع و بصر مهر خدا ** در حجب بس صورت است و بس صدا

  • He communicates to the eye that which He wills of beauty and of perfection and of amorous looks; 680
  • آن چه او خواهد رساند آن به چشم ** از جمال و از کمال و از کرشم‏

  • And He communicates to the ear that which He wills of music and glad tidings and cries (of rapture).
  • و انچه او خواهد رساند آن به گوش ** از سماع و از بشارت وز خروش‏

  • The world is full of remedies, but you have no remedy till God opens a window for you.
  • کون پر چاره ست و هیچت چاره نی ** تا که نگشاید خدایت روزنی‏

  • Though you are unaware of that (remedy) just now, God will make it plain in the hour of need.
  • گر چه تو هستی کنون غافل از آن ** وقت حاجت حق کند آن را عیان‏

  • The Prophet said that the glorious God has created a remedy for every pain;
  • گفت پیغمبر که یزدان مجید ** از پی هر درد درمان آفرید

  • But of that remedy for your pain you will not see (even) the colour or scent without His command. 685
  • لیک ز آن درمان نبینی رنگ و بو ** بهر درد خویش بی‏فرمان او

  • Come, O you that seek the remedy, set your eye on non-spatiality, as the eye of one (about to be) killed (turns) towards the spirit.
  • چشم را ای چاره جو در لامکان ** هین بنه چون چشم کشته سوی جان‏

  • This (spatial) world has been produced from that which is without spatial relations, for the world has received (the relation of) place from placelessness.
  • این جهان از بی‏جهت پیدا شده ست ** که ز بی‏جایی جهان را جا شده ست‏

  • Turn back from existence towards non-existence, (if) you seek the Lord and belong to the Lord.
  • باز گرد از هست سوی نیستی ** طالب ربی و ربانیستی‏

  • This non-existence is the place of income: do not flee from it; this existence of more and less is the place of expenditure.
  • جای دخل است این عدم از وی مرم ** جای خرج است این وجود بیش و کم‏