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2305-2329

  • Whosoever's heart is purged of infirmity, his invocation will go unto the Lord of glory. 2305
  • هر که را دل پاک شد از اعتلال ** آن دعااش می‌رود تا ذوالجلال

  • Explaining further the story of him who in the time of David, on whom be peace, sought to receive (from God) lawful means of livelihood without working or taking trouble, and how his prayer was answered favourably.
  • باز شرح کردن حکایت آن طالب روزی حلال بی کسب و رنج در عهد داود علیه السلام و مستجاب شدن دعای او

  • The story has come into my mind how that poor man used to moan and lament day and night,
  • یادم آمد آن حکایت کان فقیر ** روز و شب می‌کرد افغان و نفیر

  • And beg of God a lawful means of livelihood without pursuit and trouble and work and movement (from one place to another).
  • وز خدا می‌خواست روزی حلال ** بی شکار و رنج و کسب و انتقال

  • We have formerly related a part of what happened to him, but hindrance intervened and became fivefold.
  • پیش ازین گفتیم بعضی حال او ** لیک تعویق آمد و شد پنج‌تو

  • (Now) too we shall tell( the rest of) it. Whither will it (the story) flee, since wisdom has poured (on us) from the clouds of God’s bounty?
  • هم بگوییمش کجا خواهد گریخت ** چون ز ابر فضل حق حکمت بریخت

  • The owner of the cow espied him and said “Hey, O you to whose unrighteousness my cow has fallen a prey, 2310
  • صاحب گاوش بدید و گفت هین ** ای بظلمت گاو من گشته رهین

  • Hey, tell (me) why did you kill my cow? Fool! Cutpurse! Deal fairly (with me).”
  • هین چراکشتی بگو گاو مرا ** ابله طرار انصاف اندر آ

  • He said, “I was begging God for daily bread and preparing aqibla(for myself) of supplication.
  • گفت من روزی ز حق می‌خواستم ** قبله را از لابه می‌آراستم

  • That ancient prayer of mine was answered (by God). She (the cow) was my portion of daily bread: I killed her. Behold the answer (to your question)!”
  • آن دعای کهنه‌ام شد مستجاب ** روزی من بود کشتم نک جواب

  • He (the owner of the cow) came angrily and seized his collar; having lost patience, he struck him in the face with his fist several times.
  • او ز خشم آمد گریبانش گرفت ** چند مشتی زد به رویش ناشکفت

  • How both the adversaries went to David, on whom be peace.
  • رفتن هر دو خصم نزد داود علیه السلام

  • He led him to the Prophet David, saying, “Come, O you crazy fool and criminal! 2315
  • می‌کشیدش تا به داود نبی ** که بیا ای ظالم گیج غبی

  • Drop (this) silly argument, O impostor; let (some) intelligence into your body and come to your senses!
  • حجت بارد رها کن ای دغا ** عقل در تن آور و با خویش آ

  • What is this that you are saying? What is the prayer (you speak of)? Do not laugh at my head and beard and your own (too), O scoundrel!”
  • این چه می‌گویی دعا چه بود مخند ** بر سر و و ریش من و خویش ای لوند

  • He (the poor man) said, “I have offered (many) prayers to God, I have borne much toil and pain in this supplication.
  • گفت من با حق دعاها کرده‌ام ** اندرین لابه بسی خون خورده‌ام

  • I possess the certainty (that) the prayer has been answered. Dash your head against the stones, O foul-spoken one!”
  • من یقین دارم دعا شد مستجاب ** سر بزن بر سنگ ای منکرخطاب

  • He cried, “Hey, gather round, O Moslems! Behold the drivel and raving of this imbecile! 2320
  • گفت گرد آیید هین یا مسلمین ** ژاژ بینید و فشار این مهین

  • O Moslems, for God’s sake, how should prayer make my property belong to him?
  • ای مسلمانان دعا مال مرا ** چون از آن او کند بهر خدا

  • If it were so, by means of a single prayer of this kind the whole world would carry off (one another’s) possessions by force.
  • گر چنین بودی همه عالم بدین ** یک دعا املاک بردندی بکین

  • If it were so, the blind beggars would have become grandees and princes;
  • گر چنین بودی گدایان ضریر ** محتشم گشته بدندی و امیر

  • (For) they are (engaged) day and night in invocation and praise (of God), uttering entreaties and crying, ‘O God, do Thou give unto us!
  • روز و شب اندر دعااند و ثنا ** لابه‌گویان که تو ده‌مان ای خدا

  • Unless Thou give, assuredly no one will give (us anything): O Opener, do Thou open the lock of this (bounty)!’ 2325
  • تا تو ندهی هیچ کس ندهد یقین ** ای گشاینده تو بگشا بند این

  • Supplication and prayer is the means whereby the blind earn their livelihood, (yet) they get no gift but a crust of bread.”
  • مکسب کوران بود لابه و دعا ** جز لب نانی نیابند از عطا

  • The people said, “This Moslem speaks the truth, and this prayer-monger is one who seeks to act unjustly.
  • خلق گفتند این مسلمان راست‌گوست ** وین فروشنده‌ی دعاها ظلم‌جوست

  • How should this prayer be a means of acquiring property? When forsooth did the religious Law enter this on the roll?
  • این دعا کی باشد از اسباب ملک ** کی کشید این را شریعت خود بسلک

  • A thing becomes your property by sale and donation or by bequest and gift or by some means of this kind.
  • بیع و بخشش یا وصیت یا عطا ** یا ز جنس این شود ملکی ترا