عامه را از عشق هم‌خوابه و طبق ** کی بود پروای عشق صنع حق
How should the vulgar, in their love for bedfellow and dishes (of food), have any care for love of God's work?
آب تتماجی نریزی در تغار ** تا سگی چندی نباشد طعمه‌خوار
You do not pour tutmáj broth into a trough till there are a number of greedy dogs to drink it.
رو سگ کهف خداوندیش باش ** تا رهاند زین تغارت اصطفاش
Go, be the Cave-dog of His Lordship in order that His election (of you) may deliver you from this trough.
چونک دزدیهای بی‌رحمانه گفت ** کی کنند آن درزیان اندر نهفت 1665
When he (the story-teller) related the pitiless thefts which those tailors commit in secret,
اندر آن هنگامه ترکی از خطا ** سخت طیره شد ز کشف آن غطا
A Turk from Khitá (who was) amongst the crowd (audience) was exceedingly annoyed by that exposure.
شب چو روز رستخیز آن رازها ** کشف می‌کرد از پی اهل نهی
At night-time he (the story-teller) was exposing those secrets (of the tailors) for the benefit of the intelligent (listeners), as (plainly as secrets shall be exposed) on the Day of Resurrection.
هر کجا آیی تو در جنگی فراز ** بینی آنجا دو عدو در کشف راز
Wherever you come to close quarters with a wrangle, you will see there two enemies (engaged) in exposing (each other's) secret.
آن زمان را محشر مذکور دان ** وان گلوی رازگو را صور دان
Know that that hour (of quarrel) is (like) the (hour of the) Last Judgement mentioned (in the Qur’án), and know that the throat which tells the secret is (like) the trumpet (of Isráfíl);
که خدا اسباب خشمی ساختست ** وآن فضایح را بکوی انداختست 1670
For God hath provided the motives of anger and (thus) hath cause those shameful things to be divulged.
بس که غدر درزیان را ذکر کرد ** حیف آمد ترک را و خشم و درد
When he (the story-teller) had related many instances of the perfidy of tailors, the Turk became annoyed and angry and aggrieved,