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1048-1057

  • In the end thou wilt utter many a ‘woe is me!’ Does any one, forsooth, sell (his) fortune and felicity?
  • عاقبت وا حسرتا گویی بسی  ** بخت ودولت را فروشد خود کسی 
  • Fortune came (to thee) in the garb of a slave, (but) thy unlucky eye saw only the surface.
  • بخت با جامه‌ی غلامانه رسید  ** چشم بدبختت به جز ظاهر ندید 
  • He showed unto thee his slavery (alone): thy wicked nature practiced cunning and deceit with him. 1050
  • او نمودت بندگی خویشتن  ** خوی زشتت کرد با او مکر و فن 
  • (Now), O driveller, take idolatrously this (slave) whose secret thoughts are black though his body is white.
  • این سیه‌اسرار تن‌اسپید را  ** بت‌پرستانه بگیر ای ژاژخا 
  • This one for thee, that one for me: we (both) have profited. Hark, unto you (your) religion and unto me (my) religion, O Jew.”
  • این ترا و آن مرا بردیم سود  ** هین لکم دین ولی دین ای جهود 
  • Truly this is meet for idolaters: his (the idolater's) horse-cloth is (of) satin (while) his horse is made of wood.
  • خود سزای بت‌پرستان این بود  ** جلش اطلس اسپ او چوبین بود 
  • It (the object of his worship) is like the tomb of infidels—full of smoke and fire (within), (while) on the outside it is decked with a hundred (beautiful) designs and ornaments;
  • هم‌چو گور کافران پر دود و نار  ** وز برون بر بسته صد نقش و نگار 
  • (Or) like the wealth of tyrants—fair externally, (but) within it (intrinsically) the blood of the oppressed and (future) woe; 1055
  • هم‌چو مال ظالمان بیرون جمال  ** وز درونش خون مظلوم و وبال 
  • (Or) like the hypocrite (who) externally (is engaged in) fasting and prayer, (while) inwardly (he resembles) black loam without vegetation;
  • چون منافق از برون صوم و صلات  ** وز درون خاک سیاه بی‌نبات 
  • (Or) like a cloud empty (of rain), full of thunderclaps, wherein is neither benefit to the earth nor nourishment for the wheat;
  • هم‌چو ابری خالیی پر قر و قر  ** نه درو نفع زمین نه قوت بر