یا به آهک یا ستره بسترش ** تا نمازت کامل آید خوب و خوش
Vel psilothro vel novacula illos tonde, in order that your ritual prayer may be perfect and excellent and seemly.” [Scrape (it off) with a depilatory (of lime) or a razor, in order that your ritual prayer may be perfect and excellent and seemly.”]
گفت سایل آن درازی تا چه حد ** شرط باشد تا نمازم کم بود 3330
The questioner said, “Ad quem modum pervenire oportet eorum longitudinem ut preces meae detrimentum capiant?” [The questioner said, “To what limit is the length stipulated, so that my ritual prayer is deficient?”]
گفت چون قدر جوی گردد به طول ** پس ستردن فرض باشد ای سول
He replied, “Cum longitudine tanti evaserint quantum hordei unum granum, relligio est ut tondeas, O multa rogitans.” [He replied, “When it becomes the size of a barley seed in length, then shaving is a (religious) requirement, O (excessive) questioner.”]
گفت جوحی زود ای خوهر ببین ** عانه‌ی من گشته باشد این چنین
At once Júhí said (to the woman beside him), “O soror, inspice piline in pube mea hujusmodi facti sint. [At once Júhí said (to the woman beside him), “O sister, find out (if) my pubic hair has become (a length) such as this.]
بهر خشنودی حق پیش آر دست ** که آن به مقدار کراهت آمدست
Deo ut placeas, manum affer, (tenta) num illi usque ad modum noxae pervenerint.” [In order to satisfy (the requirement of) God, bring forth (your) hand (to determine) whether it has reached to the disliked amount.”]
دست زن در کرد در شلوار مرد ** کیر او بر دست زن آسیب کرد
Mulier manum in bracas viri demisit: penis ejus impegit manum mulieris. [The woman put (her) hand into the man’s trousers: his penis contacted the woman’s hand.]
نعره‌ای زد سخت اندر حال زن ** گفت واعظ بر دلش زد گفت من 3335
Thereupon the woman gave a loud scream: the preacher said, “My discourse has smitten her heart.”
گفت نه بر دل نزد بر دست زد ** وای اگر بر دل زدی ای پر خرد
He (Júhí) answered, “Minime: cor ejus non percussit, manum percussit. O si cor percussisset, vir sapientissime!” [He (Júhí) answered, “No, it did not smite (her) heart; it smote (her) hand. Oh, (what) if it had smitten (her) heart, O very wise (man)!”]
بر دل آن ساحران زد اندکی ** شد عصا و دست ایشان را یکی
(When) it (Divine Love) struck a little upon the hearts of the magicians (of Pharaoh), staff and hand became one to them.
گر عصا بستانی از پیری شها ** بیش رنجد که آن گروه از دست و پا
O king, if you take away the staff from an old man, he will be more grieved than that party (the magicians) were (grieved) by (the amputation of) their hands and feet.