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  • این بدان ماند که شخصی دزد دید ** در وثاق اندر پی او می‏دوید
  • This (behaviour of Iblís) is like that (which is told in the following story), how a certain man saw a thief in the house and ran after him.

  • تا دو سه میدان دوید اندر پیش ** تا در افگند آن تعب اندر خویش‏
  • He ran after him (the length of) two or three fields, till the fatigue threw him into a sweat.

  • اندر آن حمله که نزدیک آمدش ** تا بدو اندر جهد دریابدش‏ 2795
  • At the moment when, rushing on, he had come so near to him that he might spring upon him and seize him,

  • دزد دیگر بانگ کردش که بیا ** تا ببینی این علامات بلا
  • The second thief cried out to him, “Come, that you may see these signs of calamity.

  • زود باش و باز گرد ای مرد کار ** تا ببینی حال اینجا زار زار
  • Be quick and turn back, O man of (prompt) action, that you may see (how) very pitiable (is) the state of things here.”

  • گفت باشد کان طرف دزدی بود ** گر نگردم زود این بر من رود
  • He (the householder) said (to himself), “Maybe a thief is yonder: if I do not return at once, this (fate) will befall me.

  • در زن و فرزند من دستی زند ** بستن این دزد سودم کی کند
  • He may lay hands upon my wife and child, (and in that case) how would it profit me to bind this thief (whom I am pursuing)?

  • این مسلمان از کرم می‏خواندم ** گر نگردم زود پیش آید ندم‏ 2800
  • This Moslem is calling me in kindness: unless I return quickly, repentance will befall (me).”

  • بر امید شفقت آن نیک خواه ** دزد را بگذاشت باز آمد به راه‏
  • In (confident) hope of the compassion of that well-disposed (friend), he left the thief and again set off (in another direction).

  • گفت ای یار نکو احوال چیست ** این فغان و بانگ تو از دست کیست‏
  • “O good friend,” said he, “what is the matter? By whose hand (violence) is this lamentation and outcry of yours (caused)?”