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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
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چون که صوفی بر نشست و شد روان ** رو در افتادن گرفت او هر زمان
- When the Súfí mounted and got going, he (the ass) began to fall on his face every time,
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هر زمانش خلق بر میداشتند ** جمله رنجورش همیپنداشتند 245
- (And) every time the people (the travellers) lifted him up: they all thought he was ill.
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آن یکی گوشش همیپیچید سخت ** و آن دگر در زیر گامش جست لخت
- One would twist his ears hard, while another sought for the (lacerated) part under his palate,
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و آن دگر در نعل او میجست سنگ ** و آن دگر در چشم او میدید زنگ
- And another searched for the stone in his shoe, and another looked at the dirt in his eye.
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باز میگفتند ای شیخ این ز چیست ** دی نمیگفتی که شکر این خر قوی است
- Also they were saying,“O Shaykh, what is the cause of this? Were not you saying yesterday, ‘Thanks (to God), this ass is strong’?”