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1028-1037

  • He has a white body, but a black heart: take (him), and give (me) in exchange that one whose body is black but whose heart is illumined.”
  • تن سپید و دل سیاهستش بگیر  ** در عوض ده تن سیاه و دل منیر 
  • Then the chieftain (Abú Bakr) sent (a messenger) to fetch him: in sooth that slave was exceedingly comely,
  • پس فرستاد و بیاورد آن همام  ** بود الحق سخت زیبا آن غلام 
  • So that the Jew was dumbfounded: at once his stony heart inclined (towards him). 1030
  • آنچنان که ماند حیران آن جهود  ** آن دل چون سنگش از جا رفت زود 
  • This is what happens to form-worshippers: their stone is (made) waxen by a (beauteous) form.
  • حالت صورت‌پرستان این بود  ** سنگشان از صورتی مومین بود 
  • (Then) again he wrangled and would not be satisfied, saying, “Without any evasion, (thou must) give more than this.”
  • باز کرد استیزه و راضی نشد  ** که برین افزون بده بی‌هیچ بد 
  • He offered him in addition a nisáb (two hundred dirhems) of silver, so that the Jew's cupidity was satisfied.
  • یک نصاب نقره هم بر وی فزود  ** تا که راضی گشت حرص آن جهود 
  • How the Jew laughed and imagined that the Siddíq had been swindled in this bargain.
  • خندیدن جهود و پنداشتن کی صدیق مغبونست درین عقد 
  • The stony-hearted Jew guffawed jeeringly and mockingly in malice and spite.
  • قهقهه زد آن جهود سنگ‌دل  ** از سر افسوس و طنز و غش و غل 
  • The Siddíq said to him, “Why this laughter?” In reply to the question he laughed more loudly, 1035
  • گفت صدیقش که این خنده چه بود  ** در جواب پرسش او خنده فزود 
  • And said, “Had it not been for the (extraordinary) earnestness and ardour shown by thee in the purchase of this black slave,
  • گفت اگر جدت نبودی و غرام  ** در خریداری این اسود غلام 
  • I would not have wrangled excitedly: indeed I would have sold him for a tenth of this (sum),
  • من ز استیزه نمی‌جوشیدمی  ** خود به عشر اینش بفروشیدمی