Number 11

MasnaviIraqi style
English

Number 11

Do you even know what unlawful income is, or which spending ends in ruin? It is gathering wealth by begging, then wasting it on frivolity and sin.
Explanation: The poem defines dishonest gain as money begged from others and then squandered on wrongdoing.

Original · Persian

شمارهٔ ۱۱

هیچ دانی که چیست دخل حرام یا کدامست خرج نافرجام
به گدایی فراهم آوردن پس به شوخی و معصیت خوردن