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  • نور حسی نبود آن نوری که او ** روی خود محسوس بیند پیش رو
  • That light by which he sensibly beholds his own face (reality) before him, is not the light of sense.
  • گفت اکنون عیبهای او بگو ** آن چنان که گفت او از عیب تو
  • The King said, “Now tell his (your fellow-servant's) faults, just as he spoke of yours,
  • تا بدانم که تو غم خوار منی ** کدخدای ملکت و کار منی‏
  • That I may know whether you are solicitous for me and a (good) house-steward of my property and business.”
  • گفت ای شه من بگویم عیبهاش ** گر چه هست او مر مرا خوش خواجه‏تاش‏
  • He replied, “O King, I will tell his faults, though he is to me a pleasing fellow-servant.
  • عیب او مهر و وفا و مردمی ** عیب او صدق و ذکا و هم دمی‏ 890
  • His faults are affection and loyalty and humanity; his faults are sincerity and keen wittedness and cordial comradeship.
  • کمترین عیبش جوانمردی و داد ** آن جوانمردی که جان را هم بداد
  • His least fault is generosity and bounty—the generosity that even gives up life.”
  • صد هزاران جان خدا کرده پدید ** چه جوانمردی بود کان را ندید
  • God has brought to view myriads of lives (in return for the life given up): what generosity would there be (in him) that saw not those?
  • ور بدیدی کی به جان بخلش بدی ** بهر یک جان کی چنین غمگین شدی‏
  • And if he saw them, how should he grudge his life? How should he become so grieved for the sake of one life?
  • بر لب جو بخل آب آن را بود ** کاو ز جوی آب نابینا بود
  • On the river-bank, water is grudged by him (alone) that is blind to the stream of water.
  • گفت پیغمبر که هر که از یقین ** داند او پاداش خود در یوم دین‏ 895
  • The Prophet said, “Whosoever knows for sure his recompense on the day of Resurrection—