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  • His adversary said to him, “Turn your face to me! Tell the truth! Why have you turned your face towards Heaven, uncle?
  • خصم گفتش رو به من کن حق بگو ** رو چه سوی آسمان کردی عمو

  • You are employing fraud, you are casting error (suggesting falsehood) : you are prating of love and nearness (to God). 2370
  • شید می‌آری غلط می‌افکنی ** لاف عشق و لاف قربت می‌زنی

  • Inasmuch as you are spiritually dead, with what face have you turned your face towards the heavens?”
  • با کدامین روی چون دل‌مرده‌ای ** روی سوی آسمانها کرده‌ای

  • On this account an uproar arose in the city, (while) that Moslem laid his face (flat) on the ground.
  • غلغلی در شهر افتاده ازین ** آن مسلمان می‌نهد رو بر زمین

  • Crying, “O God, do not put this servant (of Thine) to shame: if I am wicked, yet do not divulge my secret.
  • کای خدا این بنده را رسوا مکن ** گر بدم هم سر من پیدا مکن

  • Thou knowest (the truth), and the long nights (know it) during which I was calling unto Thee with a hundred supplications.
  • تو همی‌دانی و شبهای دراز ** که همی‌خواندم ترا با صد نیاز

  • Albeit this (supplication) has no worth in the sight of the people, in Thy sight it is like a shining lamp.” 2375
  • پیش خلق این را اگر خود قدر نیست ** پیش تو همچون چراغ روشنیست

  • How David, on whom be peace, heard what both the litigants had to say, and interrogated the defendant.
  • شنیدن داود علیه السلام سخن هر دو خصم وسال کردن از مدعی علیه

  • When the prophet David came forth, he asked, "What is all this about? What is the matter?"
  • چونک داود نبی آمد برون ** گفت هین چونست این احوال چون

  • The plaintiff said, “O prophet of God, (give me) justice! My cow strayed into his house.
  • مدعی گفت ای نبی الله داد ** گاو من در خانه او در فتاد

  • He killed my cow. Ask him why he killed my cow, and (bid him) explain what happened.”
  • کشت گاوم را بپرسش که چرا ** گاو من کشت او بیان کن ماجرا

  • David said to him (the poor man), “Speak, O noble one! How did you destroy the property of this honourable person?
  • گفت داودش بگو ای بوالکرم ** چون تلف کردی تو ملک محترم

  • Take care! Do not talk incoherently, (but) bring forward (your) plea, in order that this claim and cause may be (settled and) laid aside.” 2380
  • هین پراکنده مگو حجت بیار ** تا به یک سو گردد این دعوی و کار

  • He said, “O David, for seven years I was (engaged) day and night in invocation and entreaty.
  • گفت ای داود بودم هفت سال ** روز و شب اندر دعا و در سال

  • This (is what) I was seeking from God: ‘O God, (I said), I want a means of livelihood (that will be) lawful and without trouble (on my part).’
  • این همی‌جستم ز یزدان کای خدا ** روزیی خواهم حلال و بی عنا

  • (Both) men and women are acquainted with my lamentation; the children (can) describe this happening.
  • مرد و زن بر ناله من واقف‌اند ** کودکان این ماجرا را واصف‌اند

  • Ask whomsoever thou wilt for information about this, so that he may tell (thee) without torture and without (suffering) harm.
  • تو بپرس از هر که خواهی این خبر ** تا بگوید بی شکنجه بی ضرر

  • Inquire of the people both and secretly what this beggar with the tattered cloak used to say. 2385
  • هم هویدا پرس و هم پنهان ز خلق ** که چه می‌گفت این گدای ژنده‌دلق

  • After all this invocation and outcry, suddenly I saw a cow in my house.
  • بعد این جمله دعا و این فغان ** گاوی اندر خانه دیدم ناگهان

  • My eye became dim, not on account of the food, (but) for joy that the supplication had been accepted.
  • چشم من تاریک شد نه بهر لوت ** شادی آن که قبول آمد قنوت

  • I killed her that I might give (alms) in thankfulness that He who knoweth things unseen had hearkened to my prayer.”
  • کشتم آن را تا دهم در شکر آن ** که دعای من شنود آن غیب‌دان

  • How David, on whom be peace, gave judgement against the slayer of the cow.
  • حکم کردن داود علیه السلام برکشنده‌ی گاو

  • David said, “Wipe out these words and declare (set forth) a legal plea in this dispute.
  • گفت داود این سخنها را بشو ** حجت شرعی درین دعوی بگو

  • Do you deem it allowable that, without any (such) plea, I should establish a wring ordinance in the city? 2390
  • تو روا داری که من بی حجتی ** بنهم اندر شهر باطل سنتی

  • Who gave you this (cow)? Did you buy or inherit her? How will you take the crop? Are you the farmer?
  • این کی بخشیدت خریدی وارثی ** ریع را چون می‌ستانی حارثی

  • Know, uncle, that the acquisition (of property) is like agriculture: unless you sow (the land), the produce does not belong to you;
  • کسب را همچون زراعت دان عمو ** تا نکاری دخل نبود آن تو

  • For you reap what you sow: that is yours. Otherwise, this act of injustice is proved against you.
  • آنچ کاری بدروی آن آن تست ** ورنه این بی‌داد بر تو شد درست