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بخش ۲۷ / Section 27

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گدایی بر در سرایی چیزی خواست کدخدای خانه از درون آواز داد معذور دار که خانگیان اینجا نیستند. گدا گفت: من پاره نان می خواهم نه مباشرت با خانگیان!
چون گدا بر در سرات رسد

هرچه داری بده بهانه مکن
تا نیاید به خاطرش چیزی

پیش او ذکر اهل خانه مکن
کس در حرم سفله ناپاک سیر

چون نان نبود نهفته از چشم بشر
از خانه او توقع نان بتر است

کز خانگیان توقع چیز دگر

English translation

A beggar asked for something at the door of a house. The master of the house called out from within: 'Pardon us, for the household folk are not here.' The beggar said: 'I want a piece of bread, not intimacy with the household folk!'

When a beggar comes to the door of your house, give whatever you have and make no excuse.

So that nothing else comes into his mind, do not mention the people of the house before him.

No one, in the sanctum of a base, impure, sated man— since bread is not hidden from the eyes of men—

to expect bread from his house is worse than to expect anything else from its household folk.

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