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صوفی اندر وسوسه و آن خر چنان ** که چنین بادا جز ای دشمنان
- The Súfí was in (this) anxiety, and (meanwhile) the ass was in such a plight that—may it befall our enemies!
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آن خر مسکین میان خاک و سنگ ** کژ شده پالان دریده پالهنگ 235
- That poor ass was amidst earth and stones, with his saddle crooked and his halter torn,
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خسته از ره جملهی شب بیعلف ** گاه در جان کندن و گه در تلف
- Killed (exhausted) by the journey, without fodder all the night long, now at the last gasp and now perishing.
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خر همه شب ذکر میکرد ای اله ** جو رها کردم کم از یک مشت کاه
- All night the ass was repeating, “O God, I give up the barley; (but am I to have) less than one handful of straw?”
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با زبان حال میگفت ای شیوخ ** رحمتی که سوختم زین خام شوخ
- With mute eloquence he was saying, “O Shaykhs, (have) some pity, for I am consumed (with anguish) because of this raw impudent rogue.”
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آن چه آن خر دید از رنج و عذاب ** مرغ خاکی بیند اندر سیل آب
- What that ass suffered of pain and torment, the land-bird suffers (the same) in a flood of water.
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بس به پهلو گشت آن شب تا سحر ** آن خر بیچاره از جوع البقر 240
- (All) that night till dawn the wretched ass, from exceeding hunger, rolled frequently on his side.
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روز شد خادم بیامد بامداد ** زود پالان جست بر پشتش نهاد
- Day rose. The servant came at morn and at once laid the saddle firmly on the ass's back.
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خر فروشانه دو سه زخمش بزد ** کرد با خر آن چه ز آن سگ میسزد
- After the fashion of ass-dealers he gave him two or three blows (with a goad): he did to the ass what is befitting from such a cur (as he was).
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خر جهنده گشت از تیزی نیش ** کو زبان تا خر بگوید حال خویش
- The sharpness of the sting set the ass jumping; where is the tongue (has an ass such a tongue) that he may describe his own state (feelings)?
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گمان بردن کاروانیان که بهمیه‌ای صوفی رنجور است
- How the people of the caravan supposed the Sufi's beast was ill