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  • 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—

  • که یکی را ده عوض می‏آیدش ** هر زمان جودی دگرگون زایدش‏
  • That his compensation will be ten for one—at every moment a different (act of) munificence will issue from him.”

  • جود جمله از عوضها دیدن است ** پس عوض دیدن ضد ترسیدن است‏
  • All munificence is from seeing compensations; therefore seeing the compensation is opposed to fearing (and shrinking from the act of munificence).

  • بخل نادیدن بود اعواض را ** شاد دارد دید در خواض را
  • Miserliness consists in not seeing compensations: the prospect of pearls keeps the divers glad.

  • پس به عالم هیچ کس نبود بخیل ** ز انکه کس چیزی نبازد بی‏بدیل‏
  • Hence no one in the world is miserly, since no one hazards anything without (seeing) what is to be received in exchange.