آن بخور عود و شکر زد به هم ** وآن دگر از پوششش می‌کرد کم

One compounded incense of aloes-wood and sugar, while another was divesting him of part of his clothes;

وآن دگر نبضش که تا چون می‌جهد ** وان دگر بوی از دهانش می‌ستد 265

And another felt his pulse, to see how it was beating; and another was smelling his mouth,

تا که می خوردست و یا بنگ و حشیش ** خلق درماندند اندر بیهشیش

To see whether he had drunk wine or eaten beng or hashish: the people (having exhausted every resource) remained in despair at his insensibility.

پس خبر بردند خویشان را شتاب ** که فلان افتاده است آن‌جا خراب

So they speedily brought the news to his kinsfolk—“Such and such a person is lying there in a state of collapse;

کس نمی داند که چون مصروع گشت ** یا چه شد کو را فتاد از بام طشت

No one knows how he was stricken with catalepsy, or what it was that led to this public exposure.”

یک برادر داشت آن دباغ زفت ** گربز و دانا بیامد زود تفت

That stout tanner had a brother, (who was) cunning and sagacious: he came at once in hot haste.

اندکی سرگین سگ در آستین ** خلق را بشکافت و آمد با حنین 270

(With) a small quantity of dog's dung in his sleeve, he cleft (his way through) the crowd and approached (the senseless man) with cries of grief.

گفت من رنجش همی دانم ز چیست ** چون سبب دانی دوا کردن جلیست

“I know,” said he, “whence his illness arises: when you know the cause (of a disease), the (means of) curing (it) is manifest.

چون سبب معلوم نبود مشکلست ** داروی رنج و در آن صد محملست

When the cause is unknown, the remedy for the illness is difficult (to find), and in that (case) there are a hundred grounds to which it may be referred;

چون بدانستی سبب را سهل شد ** دانش اسباب دفع جهل شد

(But) when you have ascertained the cause, it becomes easy: knowledge of causes is the means of expelling ignorance.”