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  • مرغ پس در خود فرو رفت آن زمان  ** توسنش سر بستد از جذب عنان 
  • Thereupon the bird pondered deeply, (but) its restive steed took its head (recoiled) from the pull of the rein.

  • چون بخورد آن گندم اندر فخ بماند  ** چند او یاسین و الانعام خواند 
  • When it had eaten the wheat, it remained in the trap: it recited several times (the chapters of the Qur’án entitled) Yásín and al-An‘ám.

  • بعد در ماندن چه افسوس و چه آه  ** پیش از آن بایست این دود سیاه 
  • What is (the use of crying) “Alas” and “Ah me” after being left helpless? This black smoke ought to have been (exhaled) before that (calamity).

  • آن زمان که حرص جنبید و هوس  ** آن زمان می‌گو کای فریادرس  535
  • At the time when greed and desire have stirred (in the heart), at that time keep saying, “(Help me), O Thou who comest at the cry for help!”

  • کان زمان پیش از خرابی بصره است  ** بوک بصره وا رهد هم زان شکست 
  • For that time is prior to the devastation of Basra, and it may be that Basra will still be saved from that overthrow.

  • ابک لی یا باکیی یا ثاکلی  ** قبل هدم البصرة و الموصل 
  • O thou that wilt weep for me, O thou that wilt be bereft of me, weep for me before the demolition of Basra and Mawsil (Mosul).

  • نح علی قبل موتی واغتفر  ** لا تنح لی بعد موتی واصطبر 
  • Mourn for me and smear thyself with dust before my death; do not mourn for me after my death, but bear (the loss of me) with patience.

  • ابک لی قبل ثبوری فی‌النوی  ** بعد طوفان النوی خل البکا 
  • Weep for me before my destruction in (the flood of) decease: after the flood of decease leave off weeping.

  • آن زمان که دیو می‌شد راه‌زن  ** آن زمان بایست یاسین خواندن  540
  • At the time when the Devil was waylaying (you), at that time you ought to have recited (the Súra entitled) Yásín.

  • پیش از آنک اشکسته گردد کاروان  ** آن زمان چوبک بزن ای پاسبان 
  • O watchman, use your rattle before the caravan is ruined (by the robbers).

  • حکایت پاسبان کی خاموش کرد تا دزدان رخت تاجران بردند به کلی بعد از آن هیهای و پاسبانی می‌کرد 
  • Story of the watchman who kept silence till the robbers had carried off the entire stock of the merchants, but afterwards made an outcry and did the duty of a watchman.

  • پاسبانی خفت و دزد اسباب برد  ** رختها را زیر هر خاکی فشرد 
  • A certain watchman fell asleep. The robbers carried off the goods and secreted the (various) articles under any piece of earth.

  • روز شد بیدار شد آن کاروان  ** دید رفته رخت و سیم و اشتران 
  • (When) it was day, the caravaneers awoke: they saw that stock and money and camels were gone.

  • پس بدو گفتند ای حارس بگو  ** که چه شد این رخت و این اسباب کو 
  • Then they said to him, “O watchman, tell (us) what has happened. Where are this stock and these goods?”

  • گفت دزدان آمدند اندر نقاب  ** رختها بردند از پیشم شتاب  545
  • He replied, “The robbers came unexpectedly, and hastily carried off the stock from before me.”

  • قوم گفتندش که ای چو تل ریگ  ** پس چه می‌کردی کیی ای مردریگ 
  • The party (of merchants) said to him, “O man (weak) as a sandhill, what were you doing, then? Who are you, O recreant?”

  • گفت من یک کس بدم ایشان گروه  ** با سلاح و با شجاعت با شکوه 
  • “I was (only one,” said he, “and they were a band, armed and brave and formidable.”

  • گفت اگر در جنگ کم بودت امید  ** نعره‌ای زن کای کریمان برجهید 
  • He (the spokesman of the merchants) said, “If you had no hope (of overcoming them) in battle, (why didn't you) shout, ‘Gentlemen, spring up (from your beds)?’”

  • گفت آن دم کارد بنمودند و تیغ  ** که خمش ورنه کشیمت بی‌دریغ 
  • He replied, “At that moment they produced knives and swords, crying, ‘Silence! or we will kill you ruthlessly.’

  • آن زمان از ترس بستم من دهان  ** این زمان هیهای و فریاد و فغان  550
  • At that time I shut my mouth in terror; at this time (I can utter) screams and calls for help and cries of distress.

  • آن زمان بست آن دمم که دم زنم  ** این زمان چندانک خواهی هی کنم 
  • At that time my breath was stopped from breathing a word: at this time I will scream as much as you please.”

  • چونک عمرت برد دیو فاضحه  ** بی‌نمک باشد اعوذ و فاتحه 
  • After the Devil who exposes (sinners) to disgrace has carried off your life, it is foolish (to cry) “I take refuge (with God)” and (to recite) the Fátiha;

  • گرچه باشد بی‌نمک اکنون حنین  ** هست غفلت بی‌نمک‌تر زان یقین 
  • (But) though ’tis foolish to moan now, (yet) assuredly heedlessness is (even) more foolish than that (tardy supplication).

  • هم‌چنین هم بی‌نمک می‌نال نیز  ** که ذلیلان را نظر کن ای عزیز 
  • Continue to sob thus, even foolishly, crying, “Regard the base (sinners), O Almighty One!

  • قادری بی‌گاه باشد یا به گاه  ** از تو چیزی فوت کی شد ای اله  555
  • Whether it be late or early, Thou art omnipotent: when did anything escape Thee, O God?”

  • شاه لا تاسوا علی ما فاتکم  ** کی شود از قدرتش مطلوب گم 
  • The King of (that ye) may not grieve for what hath escaped you —how should the object of (your) desire vanish from (the range of) His power?

  • حواله کردن مرغ گرفتاری خود را در دام به فعل و مکر و زرق زاهد و جواب زاهد مرغ را 
  • How the bird attributed its being caught in the trap to the artifice and cunning and hypocrisy of the ascetic; and how the ascetic answered the bird.