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کاندر این زندان بماند او مستمر ** یاوه تاز و طبلخوار است و مضر
- For he has remained in this prison continuously, and he is an idle gad-about, a lickspittle, and a nuisance.
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چون مگس حاضر شود در هر طعام ** از وقاحت بیصلا و بیسلام
- Like a fly, he impudently appears at every meal without invitation and without salaam.
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پیش او هیچ است لوت شصت کس ** کر کند خود را اگر گوییش بس
- To him the food of sixty persons is nothing; he feigns himself deaf if you say to him, ‘Enough!’
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مرد زندان را نیاید لقمهای ** ور به صد حیلت گشاید طعمهای
- No morsel reaches the (ordinary) man in prison, or if by means of a hundred contrivances he discover some food,
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در زمان پیش آید آن دوزخ گلو ** حجتش این که خدا گفتا کلوا 620
- That hell-throat at once comes forward (with) this (as) his argument, that God has said, ‘Eat ye.’
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زین چنین قحط سه ساله داد داد ** ظل مولانا ابد پاینده باد
- Justice, justice against such a three years' famine! May the shadow of our lord endure for ever!
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یا ز زندان تا رود این گاومیش ** یا وظیفه کن ز وقفی لقمهایش
- Either let this buffalo go from prison, or make him a regular allowance of food from a trust-fund.
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ای ز تو خوش هم ذکور و هم اناث ** داد کن المستغاث المستغاث
- O thou by whom both males and females are (made) happy, do justice! Thy help is invoked and besought.”
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سوی قاضی شد وکیل با نمک ** گفت با قاضی شکایت یک به یک
- The courteous agent went to the Cadi and related the complaint to him point by point.
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خواند او را قاضی از زندان به پیش ** پس تفحص کرد از اعیان خویش 625
- The Cadi called him (the insolvent) from the prison into his presence, and (then) inquired (about him) from his own officers.