بخش 39 - داستان آن درویش کی آن گیلانی را دعا کرد کی خدا ترا به سلامت به خان و مان باز رساناد

One day a sturdy beggar, (who was) very fond of bread and carried a basket (about with him), accosted a Khwája of Gílán.

On receiving some bread from him, he cried, “O Thou (God) whose help is besought, bring him back happy to his home and household!”

He (the Khwája) said, “If the house is the one that I have seen (recently), may God bring thee there, O squalid wretch!”

Worthless folk humiliate every story-teller: if his words are lofty, they make them low;

For the tale is (lofty or low) in proportion to (the understanding of) the hearer: the tailor cuts the coat according to the Khwája's (customer's) figure.