How the Cadi was incensed fry the slap of the poor (sick) man and how the Súfi taunted the Cadi.

The Cadi was incensed. “Hey,” cried the Súfi, “your decision is just, no doubt (about it): there is no error.

O Shaykh of the (Mohammedan) religion, how can you approve for a brother (Moslem) what you disapprove for your self, O man of trust?

Don’t you know this, that (if) you dig a pit for me you will at last let yourself fall into the same pit?

Haven’t you read in the Traditions (of the Prophet), ‘Whoever digs a pit (for his brother will fall into it)’? Practise what you have read, O soul of your father!

This one judicial decision of yours was like this, for it has brought you a slap on the nape.

Alas for your other (unjust) decisions! (Consider) what (penalty) they will bring upon your head and feet.

From kindness you take pity on a wrong-doer, saying, ‘Mayst thou have three dirhems to spend (on food)!’

Cut off the wrong-doer’s hand: what occasion is there for you to put the control and reins in his hand?

O you from whom justice is unknown, you resemble the goat that gave her milk to the wolf-cub.”