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  • چون ندید او خیره و نومید شد ** جسم لرزان هم‌چو شاخ بید شد
  • When she did not see (any one), she became distraught and despairing: her body began to tremble like the willow-bough.

  • باز آمد سوی آن طفل رشید ** مصطفی را بر مکان خود ندید 930
  • She came back towards that righteous child: she did not see Mustafá in his (former) place.

  • حیرت اندر حیرت آمد بر دلش ** گشت بس تاریک از غم منزلش
  • Bewilderment on bewilderment fell upon her heart: from grief her abode became very dark.

  • سوی منزلها دوید و بانگ داشت ** که کی بر دردانه‌ام غارت گماشت
  • She ran to the dwellings (hard by) and raised an outcry, saying, “Who has carried off my single pearl?”

  • مکیان گفتند ما را علم نیست ** ما ندانستیم که آنجا کودکیست
  • The Meccans said, “We have no knowledge: we knew not that a child was there.”

  • ریخت چندان اشک و کرد او بس فغان ** که ازو گریان شدند آن دیگران
  • She shed so many tears and made (so) much lamentation that those others began to weep because of her (grief).

  • سینه کوبان آن چنان بگریست خوش ** که اختران گریان شدند از گریه‌اش 935
  • Beating her breast, she wept so well (mightily) that the stars were made to weep by her weeping.

  • حکایت آن پیر عرب کی دلالت کرد حلیمه را به استعانت به بتان
  • Story of the old Arab who directed Halíma to seek help from the idols.

  • پیرمردی پیشش آمد با عصا ** کای حلیمه چه فتاد آخر ترا
  • An old man with a staff approached her, saying, “Why, what hath befallen thee, O Halíma,

  • که چنین آتش ز دل افروختی ** این جگرها را ز ماتم سوختی
  • That thou didst let such a fire (of grief) blaze (forth) from thy heart and consume these bowels (of the bystanders) with mourning?”

  • گفت احمد را رضیعم معتمد ** پس بیاوردم که بسپارم به جد
  • She replied, “I am Ahmad's (Mohammed's) trusted foster-mother, so I brought him (back) to hand him over to his grandsire.

  • چون رسیدم در حطیم آوازها ** می‌رسید و می‌شنیدم از هوا
  • When I arrived in the Hatím, voices were coming (down) and I was hearing (them) from the air.

  • من چو آن الحان شنیدم از هوا ** طفل را بنهادم آنجا زان صدا 940
  • When I heard from the air those melodious strains, because of that sound I laid down the infant there,

  • تا ببینم این ندا آواز کیست ** که ندایی بس لطیف و بس شهیست
  • To see whose voice is (the origin of) this cry, for it is a very beautiful cry and very delightful.

  • نه از کسی دیدم بگرد خود نشان ** نه ندا می منقطع شد یک زمان
  • I saw no sign of any one around me: the cry was not ceasing for one moment.

  • چونک واگشتم ز حیرتهای دل ** طفل را آنجا ندیدم وای دل
  • When I returned (to my senses) from the bewilderments of my heart, I did not see the child there (where I had left him): alas for my heart!”

  • گفتش ای فرزند تو انده مدار ** که نمایم مر ترا یک شهریار
  • He (the old man) said, “O daughter, do not grieve, for I will show unto thee a queen,

  • که بگوید گر بخواهد حال طفل ** او بداند منزل و ترحال طفل 945
  • Who, if she wish, will tell what has happened to the child: she knows the dwelling-place of the child and his setting-out (on the way).”

  • پس حلیمه گفت ای جانم فدا ** مر ترا ای شیخ خوب خوش‌ندا
  • Then Halíma said, “Oh, my soul be a ransom for thee, O goodly and fair-spoken Shaykh!

  • هین مرا بنمای آن شاه نظر ** کش بود از حال طفل من خبر
  • Come, show me that queen of clairvoyance who hath knowledge of what has happened to my child.”

  • برد او را پیش عزی کین صنم ** هست در اخبار غیبی مغتنم
  • He brought her to ‘Uzzá, saying, “This idol is greatly prized for information concerning the Unseen.

  • ما هزاران گم شده زو یافتیم ** چون به خدمت سوی او بشتافتیم
  • Through her we have found thousands that were lost, when we hastened towards her in devotion.”

  • پیر کرد او را سجود و گفت زود ** ای خداوند عرب ای بحر جود 950
  • The old man prostrated himself before her (‘Uzzá) and said at once, “O Sovereign of the Arabs, O sea of munificence!”

  • گفت ای عزی تو بس اکرامها ** کرده‌ای تا رسته‌ایم از دامها
  • (Then) he said, “O ‘Uzzá, thou hast done many favours (to us), so that we have been delivered from snares.

  • بر عرب حقست از اکرام تو ** فرض گشته تا عرب شد رام تو
  • On account of thy favour the duty (of worshipping thee) has become obligatory to the Arabs, so that the Arabs have submitted to thee.

  • این حلیمه‌ی سعدی از اومید تو ** آمد اندر ظل شاخ بید تو
  • In hope of thee this Halíma of (the tribe) Sa‘d has come into the shadow of thy willow-bough,