آن دل مردی که از زن کم بود ** آن دلی باشد که کم ز اشکم بود
The heart of the man that is less than a woman is the heart that is less (in worth) than the belly.
قصه‌ی فریاد رسیدن رسول علیه السلام کاروان عرب را کی از تشنگی و بی‌آبی در مانده بودند و دل بر مرگ نهاده شتران و خلق زبان برون انداخته
Story of the Prophet's, on whom be peace, coming to the aid of a caravan of Arabs who had been brought to sore straits by thirst and lack of water and had set their minds on death: (both) the camels and the people (of the caravan) had let their tongues drop out (of their mouths from exhaustion).
اندر آن وادی گروهی از عرب ** خشک شد از قحط بارانشان قرب3130
In that wadi (was) a company of Arabs: their water-skins had become dry from lack of rain:
در میان آن بیابان مانده ** کاروانی مرگ خود بر خوانده
A caravan amidst the desert in sore distress—they had rehearsed their own death.
ناگهانی آن مغیث هر دو کون ** مصطفی پیدا شد از ره بهر عون
Suddenly he who succours both worlds, Mustafá (Mohammed), appeared on the way, for help's sake.
دید آنجا کاروانی بس بزرگ ** بر تف ریگ و ره صعب و سترگ
He saw there an exceeding great caravan on the scalding sand and (engaged in) a hard and terrible journey;
اشترانشان را زبان آویخته ** خلق اندر ریگ هر سو ریخته
The tongues of their camels hanging out, the people strown everywhere on the sand.
رحمش آمد گفت هین زوتر روید ** چند یاری سوی آن کثبان دوید3135
He took pity and said, “Hark, go at once, some of your comrades, and run to yonder sandhills,
گر سیاهی بر شتر مشک آورد ** سوی میر خود به زودی می‌برد
For a negro on camelback will (presently) bring a water-skin, (which) he is conveying with all speed to his master.
آن شتربان سیه را با شتر ** سوی من آرید با فرمان مر
Bring to me that negro camel-driver along with the camel by force, if need be.”
سوی کثبان آمدند آن طالبان ** بعد یکساعت بدیدند آنچنان
Those seekers approached the sandhills: after a short while they saw ’twas even so: