布哈拉阿凡提雕塑
【英译汉】鲁米诗（选自玛斯纳维）
一天，有四个男孩来找霍加（阿凡提）及交给他一袋胡桃。
“霍加，我们不能平均分配这些胡桃。所以请您帮我们合理分配。”
霍加问：“你们想要造物主方式分配，还是凡人式分配”？
“造物主式分配”。孩子们回答。
霍加打开胡桃袋子，抓两把给一个孩子，抓一把给一个孩子，又抓两把给第三个孩子，第四个孩子一无所有。
“这是哪种分配方式？”孩子们疑惑的问道。
“嗯，这是造物主式 ，”霍加回答，“祂赐给一些人许多，一些人很少，一些人一无所有。如果你们想要凡人式分配方式就是平均分给每个人。”
One day four boys approached Hodja and gave him a bagful of walnuts.
"Hodja, we can't divide these walnuts among us evenly. So would you help us, please?"
Hodja asked, "Do you want God's way of distribution or mortal's way?"
"God's way," the children answered.
Hodja opened the bag and gave two handfuls of walnuts to one child, one handful to the other, only two walnuts to the third child and none to the fourth.
"What kind of distribution is this?" the children asked baffled.
"Well, this is God's way," he answered, "He gives some people a lot, some people a little and nothing to others. If you asked for mortal's way I would have given the same amount to everybody."
注释：霍加是Hodja音译，来自波斯语خواجه 。例如中国古书的霍加/华哲/和卓/火者，是波斯语خواجه 音译。意思是商人/老板/老爷/老师/学者/官员等。阿凡提的名字叫霍加纳斯尔丁（波斯语：خواجه نصردین ），布哈拉塔吉克人，今天塔吉克斯坦非物质文化遗产名录。
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