هان کدامست آن عذاب این معتمد ** در قفص بودن به غیر جنس خود
Hark, what is that torment, O trusted (friend)? To be in a cage without thy congener.
زین بدن اندر عذابی ای بشر ** مرغ روحت بسته با جنسی دگر
O Man, thou art in torment on account of this body: the bird, thy spirit, is imprisoned with one of another kind.
روح بازست و طبایع زاغها ** دارد از زاغان و چغدان داغها
The spirit is a falcon, and the (bodily) properties are crows: it has (receives) painful brands from the crows and owls.
او بمانده در میانشان زارزار ** هم‌چو بوبکری به شهر سبزوار
It remains amongst them in sore misery, like an Abú Bakr in the city of Sabzawár.
حکایت محمد خوارزمشاه کی شهر سبزوار کی همه رافضی باشند به جنگ بگرفت اما جان خواستند گفت آنگه امان دهم کی ازین شهر پیش من به هدیه ابوبکر نامی بیارید
Story of Mohammed Khwárizmsháh who took by war (force) the city of Sabzawár, where all (the inhabitants) are Ráfizís (extreme Shí‘ites). (When) they begged him to spare their lives, he said, “I will grant (you) security as soon as ye produce from this city a man named Abú Bakr and present him to me.”
شد محمد الپ الغ خوارزمشاه ** در قتال سبزوار پر پناه 845
Mohammed Alp Ulugh Khwárizmsháh marched to battle against Sabzawár, (the city) full of refuge (for the wicked).
تنگشان آورد لشکرهای او ** اسپهش افتاد در قتل عدو
His troops reduced them (the inhabitants) to straits; his army fell to killing the foe.
سجده آوردند پیشش کالامان ** حلقه‌مان در گوش کن وا بخش جان
They prostrated themselves before him, crying, “Mercy! Make us thy thralls, (but) spare our lives!
هر خراج و صلتی که بایدت ** آن ز ما هر موسمی افزایدت
Whatever thou requirest (in the way of) tribute or presents will come to thee from us with increase (abundantly) at every fixed time (of payment).
جان ما آن توست ای شیرخو ** پیش ما چندی امانت باش گو
Our lives are thine, O lion-natured (prince): let them be on deposit with us for a (little) while.”
گفت نرهانید از من جان خویش ** تا نیاریدم ابوبکری به پیش 850
He replied, “Ye will not save your lives from me unless ye bring an Abú Bakr into my presence.