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1533-1542

  • هم‌چو مجنون‌اند و چون ناقه‌ش یقین ** می‌کشد آن پیش و این واپس به کین
  • Assuredly they (the reason and the flesh) are like Majnún and his she-camel: that one is pulling forward and this one backward in (mutual) enmity.

  • میل مجنون پیش آن لیلی روان ** میل ناقه پس پی کره دوان
  • Majnún's desire is speeding to the presence of that (beloved) Laylá; the she camel's desire is running back after her foal.

  • یک دم ار مجنون ز خود غافل بدی ** ناقه گردیدی و واپس آمدی 1535
  • If Majnún forgot himself for one moment, the she-camel would turn and go back.

  • عشق و سودا چونک پر بودش بدن ** می‌نبودش چاره از بی‌خود شدن
  • Since his body was full of love and passion, he had no resource but to become beside himself.

  • آنک او باشد مراقب عقل بود ** عقل را سودای لیلی در ربود
  • That which is regardful was (ever) reason: passion for Laylá carried (his) reason away.

  • لیک ناقه بس مراقب بود و چست ** چون بدیدی او مهار خویش سست
  • But the she-camel was very regardful and alert: whenever she saw her toggle slack

  • فهم کردی زو که غافل گشت و دنگ ** رو سپس کردی به کره بی‌درنگ
  • She would at once perceive that he had become heedless and dazed, and would turn her face back to the foal without delay.

  • چون به خود باز آمدی دیدی ز جا ** کو سپس رفتست بس فرسنگها 1540
  • When he came to himself again, he would see on the spot that she had gone back many leagues.

  • در سه روزه ره بدین احوالها ** ماند مجنون در تردد سالها
  • In these conditions Majnún remained going to and fro for years on a three days' journey.

  • گفت ای ناقه چو هر دو عاشقیم ** ما دو ضد پس همره نالایقیم
  • He said, “O camel, since we both are lovers, therefore we two contraries are unsuitable fellow-travellers.