گر خمش کردی و گرنه آن کنم ** که همین دم ترک خان و مان کنم‌‌

If thou keep silence, (’tis well), and if not, I will so do that at this very moment I will leave my house and home.”

مراعات کردن زن شوهر را و استغفار کردن از گفته‌‌ی خویش‌‌

How the wife paid regard to her husband and begged God to forgive her for what she had said.

زن چو دید او را که تند و توسن است ** گشت گریان گریه خود دام زن است‌‌

When the wife saw that he was fierce and unmanageable, she began to weep: tears in sooth are a woman's lure.

گفت از تو کی چنین پنداشتم ** از تو من اومید دیگر داشتم‌‌ 2395

She said, “When did I imagine such (words) from thee? I hoped of thee something different.”

زن در آمد از طریق نیستی ** گفت من خاک شمایم نه ستی‌‌

The wife approached by the way of self-naughting (self-abasement). “I am thy dust,” said she, “not (worthy to be) thy lady-wife.

جسم و جان و هر چه هستم آن تست ** حکم و فرمان جملگی فرمان تست‌‌

Body and soul and all I am is thine: the entire authority and command belongs to thee.

گر ز درویشی دلم از صبر جست ** بهر خویشم نیست آن بهر تو است‌‌

If because of poverty my heart has lost patience, it is not for my own sake, but for thine.

تو مرا در دردها بودی دوا ** من نمی‌‌خواهم که باشی بی‌‌نوا

Thou hast been my remedy in afflictions: I am unwilling that thou shouldst be penniless.

جان تو کز بهر خویشم نیست این ** از برای تستم این ناله و حنین‌‌ 2400

By thy soul, this is not for my own sake: this wailing and moaning of mine is on account of thee.

خویش من و الله که بهر خویش تو ** هر نفس خواهد که میرد پیش تو

(I swear) by God that at every moment my self would fain die for thy self before thee.

کاش جانت کش روان من فدی ** از ضمیر جان من واقف بدی‌‌

Would that thy soul, to which my soul is devoted, were aware of my soul's inmost thoughts!