پس قرین می‌کرد از ذوق آن نفس ** با ثنای حق دعای آن عسس55
Therefore at that moment, from the delight (which he experienced), he conjoined praise of God with prayers for the night-patrol,
که زیان کردم عسس را از گریز ** بیست چندان سیم و زر بر وی بریز
Saying, “I caused loss to the night-patrol by fleeing (from him): scatter o’er him twenty times as much silver and gold.
از عوانی مر ورا آزاد کن ** آنچنان که شادم او را شاد کن
Set him free from policing: make him glad even as I am glad.
سعد دارش این جهان و آن جهان ** از عوانی و سگی‌اش وا رهان
Keep him blest in this world and in that world, deliver him from policing and currishness—
گرچه خوی آن عوان هست ای خدا ** که هماره خلق را خواهد بلا
Though it is the nature of that policeman, O God, that he always desires the people to be afflicted.”
گر خبر آید که شه جرمی نهاد ** بر مسلمانان شود او زفت و شاد60
If news come that the king has imposed a fine upon the Moslems, he (the policeman) waxes big and exultant;
ور خبر آید که شه رحمت نمود ** از مسلمانان فکند آن را به جود
And if news come that the king has shown mercy and has generously taken off that (penalty) from the Moslems,
ماتمی در جان او افتد از آن ** صد چنین ادبارها دارد عوان
A mournfulness falls upon his soul thereat: the policeman hath a hundred such depravities.
او عوان را در دعا در می‌کشید ** کز عوان او را چنان راحت رسید
He (the lover) was bringing the policeman into the prayer (of benediction), because such solace had come to him from the policeman.
بر همه زهر و برو تریاق بود ** آن عوان پیوند آن مشتاق بود
He (the policeman) was poison to all (others), but to him (he was) the antidote: the policeman was the means of uniting that longing lover (with the object of his desire).