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528-537

  • گفت من مضطرم و مجروح‌حال  ** هست مردار این زمان بر من حلال 
  • The bird said, “I am driven by necessity and in a sore plight: (even) carrion is lawful to me at this moment.

  • هین به دستوری ازین گندم خورم  ** ای امین و پارسا و محترم 
  • Hark, with your permission I will eat of this wheat, O trusty and devout and venerable one.”

  • گفت مفتی ضرورت هم توی  ** بی‌ضرورت گر خوری مجرم شوی  530
  • He replied, “You are the judge of (your) necessity: if you eat without necessity, you will commit a sin;

  • ور ضرورت هست هم پرهیز به  ** ور خوری باری ضمان آن بده 
  • And if the necessity exists, yet ’tis better to abstain; or if you do eat, at any rate give a guarantee for (payment of) it.”

  • مرغ پس در خود فرو رفت آن زمان  ** توسنش سر بستد از جذب عنان 
  • Thereupon the bird pondered deeply, (but) its restive steed took its head (recoiled) from the pull of the rein.

  • چون بخورد آن گندم اندر فخ بماند  ** چند او یاسین و الانعام خواند 
  • When it had eaten the wheat, it remained in the trap: it recited several times (the chapters of the Qur’án entitled) Yásín and al-An‘ám.

  • بعد در ماندن چه افسوس و چه آه  ** پیش از آن بایست این دود سیاه 
  • What is (the use of crying) “Alas” and “Ah me” after being left helpless? This black smoke ought to have been (exhaled) before that (calamity).

  • آن زمان که حرص جنبید و هوس  ** آن زمان می‌گو کای فریادرس  535
  • At the time when greed and desire have stirred (in the heart), at that time keep saying, “(Help me), O Thou who comest at the cry for help!”

  • کان زمان پیش از خرابی بصره است  ** بوک بصره وا رهد هم زان شکست 
  • For that time is prior to the devastation of Basra, and it may be that Basra will still be saved from that overthrow.

  • ابک لی یا باکیی یا ثاکلی  ** قبل هدم البصرة و الموصل 
  • O thou that wilt weep for me, O thou that wilt be bereft of me, weep for me before the demolition of Basra and Mawsil (Mosul).