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1939-1948

  • اندر آن رقعه نبشته بود این  ** که برون شهر گنجی دان دفین 
  • This is what was written in the scroll—“Know that outside of the town a treasure is buried.

  • آن فلان قبه که در وی مشهدست  ** پشت او در شهر و در در فدفدست  1940
  • (Go to) such-and-such a domed building in which there is a martyr's shrine, with its back to the town and its gate towards the desert.

  • پشت با وی کن تو رو در قبله آر  ** وانگهان از قوس تیری بر گذار 
  • Turn your back to it and face the qibla (Mecca) and then let loose an arrow from your bow.

  • چون فکندی تیر از قوس ای سعاد  ** بر کن آن موضع که تیرت اوفتاد 
  • When you have shot the arrow from your bow, O fortunate one, dig up the place where your arrow fell.”

  • پس کمان سخت آورد آن فتی  ** تیر پرانید در صحن فضا 
  • Thereupon the youth fetched a strongbow and let fly an arrow into the expanse of (aerial) space,

  • زو تبر آورد و بیل او شاد شاد  ** کند آن موضع که تیرش اوفتاد 
  • And quickly and with great joy brought a pick-axe and mattock and dug up the spot where his arrow had fallen;

  • کند شد هم او و هم بیل و تبر  ** خود ندید از گنج پنهانی اثر  1945
  • (But) both he and the mattock and pick-axe were worn out (in vain efforts), and he found not even a trace of the hidden treasure.

  • هم‌چنین هر روز تیر انداختی  ** لیک جای گنج را نشناختی 
  • Every day in like fashion he was shooting arrows, but never getting to know the situation of the treasure.

  • چونک این را پیشه کرد او بر دوام  ** فجفجی در شهر افتاد و عوام 
  • Since he made this his continual practice, a whispered rumour arose in the city and (among) the people.

  • فاش شدن خبر این گنج و رسیدن به گوش پادشاه 
  • How the news of this treasure became known and reached the ears of the king.

  • پس خبر کردند سلطان را ازین  ** آن گروهی که بدند اندر کمین 
  • Then the party (of informers) who lay in ambush gave information of this to the king,