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636-645

  • از نماز و صوم و صد بی‏چارگی ** قوت ذوق آید برد یک بارگی‏
  • (If) from prayer and fasting and a hundred helplessnesses (utter self-abnegations) the food of spiritual feeling come (to any one), he (the Devil) at once carries it off.

  • أستعیذ الله من شیطانه ** قد هلکنا آه من طغیانه‏
  • I seek refuge with God from His Satan: we have perished, alas, through his overweening disobedience.

  • یک سگ است و در هزاران می‏رود ** هر که در وی رفت او او می‏شود
  • He is (but) one cur, and he goes into thousands (of people): into whomsoever he goes, he (that person) becomes he (Satan).

  • هر که سردت کرد می‏دان کاو در اوست ** دیو پنهان گشته اندر زیر پوست‏
  • Whoever makes you cold (damps your spiritual ardour) know that he (Satan) is in him: the Devil has become hidden beneath his skin.

  • چون نیابد صورت آید در خیال ** تا کشاند آن خیالت در وبال‏ 640
  • When he finds no (bodily) form, he comes into (your) fancy, in order that that fancy may lead you into woe:

  • گه خیال فرجه و گاهی دکان ** گه خیال علم و گاهی خان و مان‏
  • Now the fancy of recreation, now of the shop; now the fancy of knowledge, and now of house and home.

  • هان بگو لاحولها اندر زمان ** از زبان تنها نه بلک از عین جان‏
  • Beware! say at once “God help me!” again and again, not with tongue alone but from your very soul.

  • تتمه قصه مفلس
  • The end of the story of the insolvent.

  • گفت قاضی مفلسی را وانما ** گفت اینک اهل زندانت گوا
  • The Cadi said, “Show plainly that you are insolvent.” “Here are the prisoners,” he replied, “as thy witnesses.”

  • گفت ایشان متهم باشند چون ** می‏گریزند از تو می‏گریند خون‏
  • “They,” said the Cadi, “are suspect, because they are fleeing from you and weeping blood (on account of your ill-treatment of them);

  • از تو می‏خواهند هم تا وارهند ** زین غرض باطل گواهی می‏دهند 645
  • Also, they are suing to be delivered from you: by reason of this self-interest the testimony they give is worthless.”