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2309-2333

  • (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

  • In what book is this new statute (to be found)? Give back the cow or go to prison!” 2330
  • در کدامین دفترست این شرع نو ** گاو را تو باز ده یا حبس رو

  • He (the poor man) was turning his face to Heaven (and saying), “None knoweth my (spiritual) experience save Thee.
  • او به سوی آسمان می‌کرد رو ** واقعه‌ی ما را نداند غیر تو

  • Thou didst put that prayer into my heart, Thou didst raise dreams.”
  • در دل من آن دعا انداختی ** صد امید اندر دلم افراختی

  • Not idly was I uttering that prayer: like Joseph, I had dreamed dreams.”
  • من نمی‌کردم گزافه آن دعا ** همچو یوسف دیده بودم خوابها