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  • وای آن دل کش چنین سودا فتاد  ** هیچ کس را این چنین سودا مباد 
  • Alas for the heart that such an insane passion has stricken: may no one feel a passion like this!
  • این سزای آنک تخم جهل کاشت  ** وآن نصیحت را کساد و سهل داشت 
  • This is the retribution due to him who sowed the seed of ignorance and held light and cheap that (precious) counsel,
  • اعتمادی کرد بر تدبیر خویش  ** که برم من کار خود با عقل پیش  3795
  • And put a (great) trust in his own management, saying, “By dint of intelligence I will carry my affair to success.”
  • نیم ذره زان عنایت به بود  ** که ز تدبیر خرد سیصد رصد 
  • Half a mite of the (King's) favour is better than three hundred spells (expedients) devised by the intellect.
  • ترک مکر خویشتن گیر ای امیر  ** پا بکش پیش عنایت خوش بمیر 
  • Abandon your own cunning, O Amír: draw back your foot before the (Divine) favour and gladly die.
  • این به قدر حیله‌ی معدود نیست  ** زین حیل تا تو نمیری سود نیست 
  • This is not (to be gained) by a certain amount of contrivance: nothing avails until you die to (all) these contrivings.
  • حکایت صدر جهان بخارا کی هر سایلی کی به زبان بخواستی از صدقه‌ی عام بی‌دریغ او محروم شدی و آن دانشمند درویش به فراموشی و فرط حرص و تعجیل به زبان بخواست در موکب صدر جهان از وی رو بگردانید و او هر روز حیله‌ی نو ساختی و خود را گاه زن کردی زیر چادر وگاه نابینا کردی و چشم و روی خود بسته به فراستش بشناختی الی آخره 
  • Story of the Sadr-i Jahán of Bukhárá. (It was his custom that) any beggar who begged with his tongue was excluded from his universal and unstinted charity. A certain poor savant, forgetting (this rule) and being excessively eager and in a hurry, begged (alms) with his tongue (while the Sadr was passing) amidst his cavalcade. The Sadr-i Jahán averted his face from him, and (though) he contrived a new trick every day and disguised himself, now as a woman veiled in a chádar and now as a blind man with bandaged eyes and face, he (the Sadr) always had discernment enough to recognize him, etc.
  • در بخارا خوی آن خواجیم اجل  ** بود با خواهندگان حسن عمل 
  • It was the habit of that most noble lord in Bukhárá to deal kindly with beggars.
  • داد بسیار و عطای بی‌شمار  ** تا به شب بودی ز جودش زر نثار  3800
  • His great bounty and immeasurable munificence were always scattering gold till nightfall.
  • زر به کاغذپاره‌ها پیچیده بود  ** تا وجودش بود می‌افشاند جود 
  • The gold was wrapped in bits of paper: he continued to lavish bounty as long as he lived.
  • هم‌چو خورشید و چو ماه پاک‌باز  ** آنچ گیرند از ضیا بدهند باز 
  • (He was) like the sun and the spendthrift moon; (for) they give back (all) the radiance that they receive (from God).
  • خاک را زربخش کی بود آفتاب  ** زر ازو در کان و گنج اندر خراب 
  • Who bestows gold on the earth? The sun. Through him, gold is in the mine and treasure in the ruin.
  • هر صباحی یک گره را راتبه  ** تا نماند امتی زو خایبه 
  • Every morning an allowance (was distributed) to a (different) set of people, in order that no class should be left disappointed by him.
  • مبتلایان را بدی روزی عطا  ** روز دیگر بیوگان را آن سخا  3805
  • On one day his gifts were made to those afflicted (by disease); next day the same generosity (was shown) to widows;
  • روز دیگر بر علویان مقل  ** با فقیهان فقیر مشتغل 
  • Next day to impoverished descendants of ‘Alí together with poor jurists engaged in study (of the canon-law);
  • روز دیگر بر تهی‌دستان عام  ** روز دیگر بر گرفتاران وام 
  • Next day to empty-handed common folk; next day to persons fallen into debt.
  • شرط او آن بود که کس با زبان  ** زر نخواهد هیچ نگشاید لبان 
  • His rule (in giving alms) was that no one should beg for gold with his tongue or open his lips at all;
  • لیک خامش بر حوالی رهش  ** ایستاده مفلسان دیواروش 
  • But the paupers stood in silence, like a wall, on the outskirts of his path,
  • هر که کردی ناگهان با لب سال  ** زو نبردی زین گنه یک حبه مال  3810
  • And any one who suddenly begged with his lips was punished for this offence by not getting from him (even) a mite of money.
  • من صمت منکم نجا بد یاسه‌اش  ** خامشان را بود کیسه و کاسه‌اش 
  • His maxim was “Those of you who keep silence are saved”: his purses and bowls (of food) were (reserved) for the silent.
  • نادرا روزی یکی پیری بگفت  ** ده زکاتم که منم با جوع جفت 
  • One day (it happened) extraordinarily (that) an old man said, “Give me alms, for I am hungry.”
  • منع کرد از پیر و پیرش جد گرفت  ** مانده خلق از جد پیر اندر شگفت 
  • He refused (alms) to the old man, but the old man importuned him: the people were astounded by the old man's importunity.
  • گفت بس بی‌شرم پیری ای پدر  ** پیر گفت از من توی بی‌شرم‌تر 
  • He (the Sadr) said, “You are a very shameless old man, O father.” The old man replied, “Thou art more shameless than I,
  • کین جهان خوردی و خواهی تو ز طمع  ** کان جهان با این جهان گیری به جمع  3815
  • For thou hast enjoyed this world, and in thy greed thou wouldst fain take the other world (to enjoy it) together with this world.”
  • خنده‌اش آمد مال داد آن پیر را  ** پیر تنها برد آن توفیر را 
  • He (the Sadr) laughed and gave the old man some money: the old man alone obtained the bounty.
  • غیر آن پیر ایچ خواهنده ازو  ** نیم حبه زر ندید و نه تسو 
  • Except that old man none of those who begged (aloud) saw half a mite or a single farthing of his money.