خلق را می‌راند از وی آن جوان ** تا علاجش را نبینند آن کسان

The youth kept driving the people away from him (the tanner), in order that those persons might not see his treatment (of the sick man).

سر به گوشش برد هم‌چون رازگو ** پس نهاد آن چیز بر بینی او 290

He brought his head (close) to his ear, like one telling a secret; then he put the thing (which he had in his hand) to his (the tanner’s) nose;

کو به کف سرگین سگ ساییده بود ** داروی مغز پلید آن دیده بود

For he had rubbed the dog’s dung on his palm: he had deemed it (to be) the remedy for the polluted brain.

ساعتی شد مرد جنبیدن گرفت ** خلق گفتند این فسونی بد شگفت

A short while passed: the man began to move: the people said, “This was a wonderful charm;

کین بخواند افسون به گوش او دمید ** مرده بود افسون به فریادش رسید

For this (youth) recited charms and breathed (them) into his ear: he was dead: the charms came to succour him.”

جنبش اهل فساد آن سو بود ** که زنا و غمزه و ابرو بود

The movement of iniquitous folk is to the quarter in which there is fornication and ogling glances and eyebrows.

هر کرا مشک نصیحت سود نیست ** لا جرم با بوی بد خو کردنیست 295

Any one to whom the musk, admonition, is of no use must necessarily make himself familiar with the bad smell.

مشرکان را زان نجس خواندست حق ** کاندرون پشک زادند از سبق

God has called the polytheists najas (uncleanness)’ for the reason that they were born in dung from of old.

کرم کو زادست در سرگین ابد ** می‌نگرداند به عنبر خوی خود

The worm that has been born in dung will nevermore change its evil nature by means of ambergris.

چون نزد بر وی نثار رش نور ** او همه جسمست بی‌دل چون قشور

Since the largesse of sprinkled light did not strike upon him (the wicked man), he is wholly body, without heart (spirit), like (empty) husks.