Poem

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جود بخشیدن چیزیست بایستی بی ملاحظه غرضی و مطالبه عوضی، اگر چه آن غرض یا عوض ثنای جمیل یا ثواب جزیل باشد.
کیست کریم آن که نه بهر جزاست

هر کرمی کاید ازو در وجود
هر چه بود بهر ثنا و ثواب

بیع و شری گیر نه احسان و جود
هر که مقصودش از کرم آنست

که برآرد به عالم آوازه
باشد از مصر جود و شهر کرم

خانه او برون دروازه

English translation

Generosity is the giving of something needful, without regard for any ulterior motive or the demand of any recompense, even if that motive or recompense be beautiful praise or ample reward.

Who is the generous one? He who gives not for the sake of return— every act of magnanimity that comes into being from him. Whatever is done for the sake of praise and reward, deem it buying and selling, not benevolence and generosity. Whoever's aim in generosity is that he raise up his fame throughout the world— his house lies outside the gate of the land of generosity and the city of magnanimity.

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