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277-286

  • گشت مهمان رسول آن شب عرب  ** شیر یک بز نیمه خورد و بست لب 
  • The Arab became the Prophet's guest that night: he drank half the milk of a single goat and (then) closed his lips.

  • کرد الحاحش بخور شیر و رقاق  ** گفت گشتم سیر والله بی‌نفاق 
  • He (the Prophet) urged him to drink the milk and eat the scones. “By God,” said he, “in all sincerity I have eaten my fill.

  • این تکلف نیست نی ناموس و فن  ** سیرتر گشتم از آنک دوش من 
  • This is not hypocrisy or affectation and artifice: I have become fuller than I was yesternight.”

  • در عجب ماندند جمله اهل بیت  ** پر شد این قندیل زین یک قطره زیت  280
  • All the people of the (Prophet's) house were left in astonishment (to think that) this lamp had been filled by this one drop of oil,

  • آنچ قوت مرغ بابیلی بود  ** سیری معده‌ی چنین پیلی شود 
  • And that what is (only) a swift's (portion of) food should become the (means of) filling the belly of such an elephant.

  • فجفجه افتاد اندر مرد و زن  ** قدر پشه می‌خورد آن پیل‌تن 
  • Whispering arose amongst the men and women—“That man who has the body of an elephant eats as little as a fly!”

  • حرص و وهم کافری سرزیر شد  ** اژدها از قوت موری سیر شد 
  • The greed and vanity of unbelief was overthrown: the dragon was satisfied with the food of an ant.

  • آن گدا چشمی کفر از وی برفت  ** لوت ایمانیش لمتر کرد و زفت 
  • The beggar-like greediness of unbelief departed from him: the sweet food of the Faith made him stout and strong.

  • آنک از جوع البقر او می‌طپید  ** هم‌چو مریم میوه‌ی جنت بدید  285
  • He who was quivering from ravenous hunger beheld, like Mary, the fruit of Paradise.

  • میوه‌ی جنت سوی چشمش شتافت  ** معده‌ی چون دوزخش آرام یافت 
  • The fruit of Paradise sped to his body: his Hell-like belly gained repose.