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  • هر یکی چونک فدایی فنیست  ** کاندر آن ره صرف عمر و کشتنیست 
  • Inasmuch as every one is devoted to some calling wherein he spends his life and is killed—

  • کشتنی اندر غروبی یا شروق  ** که نه شایق ماند آنگه نه مشوق  3545
  • Is killed somewhere (either) in the West or in the East, at which time neither the desiring subject nor the desired object remains (in existence)—

  • باری این مقبل فدای این فنست  ** کاندرو صد زندگی در کشتنست 
  • After all, this fortunate man is devoted to the calling wherein a hundred lives are (gained) in being killed;

  • عاشق و معشوق و عشقش بر دوام  ** در دو عالم بهرمند و نیک‌نام 
  • Its lover and beloved and love are everlastingly prosperous and renowned in both worlds.

  • یا کرامی ارحموا اهل الهوی  ** شانهم ورد التوی بعد التوی 
  • O my generous friends, have pity on the votaries of passion: ’tis their business to go down to destruction after destruction.

  • عفو کن ای میر بر سختی او  ** در نگر در درد و بدبختی او 
  • (The people said), “O Amír, pardon his (the ascetic's) violence: consider his sorrow and ill-fortune,

  • تا ز جرمت هم خدا عفوی کند  ** زلتت را مغفرت در آکند  3550
  • In order that God may pardon thy sins likewise and heap forgiveness on thy faults.

  • تو ز غفلت بس سبو بشکسته‌ای  ** در امید عفو دل در بسته‌ای 
  • Thou hast heedlessly broken many a jug and set thy heart on the hope of pardon.

  • عفو کن تا عفو یابی در جزا  ** می‌شکافد مو قدر اندر سزا 
  • Pardon, that thou mayst win pardon in return: the (Divine) decree splits hairs (is exceedingly scrupulous) in (giving every one his) deserts.”

  • جواب گفتن امیر مر آن شفیعان را و همسایگان زاهد را کی گستاخی چرا کرد و سبوی ما را چرا شکست من درین باب شفاعت قبول نخواهم کرد کی سوگند خورده‌ام کی سزای او را بدهم 
  • How the Amír answered those neighbours of the ascetic who interceded for him: “Why,” said he, “did he behave (so) impudently and why did he break my jug (of wine)? I will not listen to intercession in this matter, for I have sworn to punish him as he deserves.”

  • میر گفت او کیست کو سنگی زند  ** بر سبوی ما سبو را بشکند 
  • The Amír said, “Who is he that he should throw a stone at my jug and break it?

  • چون گذر سازد ز کویم شیر نر  ** ترس ترسان بگذرد با صد حذر 
  • When the fierce lion passes through my quarter, he passes in great affright and with a hundred precautions.

  • بنده‌ی ما را چرا آزرد دل  ** کرد ما را پیش مهمانان خجل  3555
  • Why did he vex the heart of my slave and put me to shame before my guests?

  • شربتی که به ز خون اوست ریخت  ** این زمان هم‌چون زنان از ما گریخت 
  • He spilt a beverage that is better than his (own) blood, and now he has fled from me, like women.

  • لیک جان از دست من او کی برد  ** گیر هم‌چون مرغ بالا بر پرد 
  • But how shall he save his life from my hand? (Even) suppose that he flies up on high like a bird,

  • تیر قهر خویش بر پرش زنم  ** پر و بال مردریگش بر کنم 
  • I will shoot the arrow of my vengeance at his wings, I will tear out his good-for-nothing wings and feathers.

  • گر رود در سنگ سخت از کوششم  ** از دل سنگش کنون بیرون کشم 
  • If he enter the hard rock (to escape) from my pursuit, I will drag him forth from the heart of the rock just now.

  • من برانم بر تن او ضربتی  ** که بود قوادکان را عبرتی  3560
  • I will inflict on his body such a blow as will be a warning to base scoundrels.

  • با همه سالوس با ما نیز هم  ** داد او و صد چو او این دم دهم 
  • Hypocrisy to all and even to me! I will give him and a hundred like him their due at this moment.”

  • خشم خون‌خوارش شده بد سرکشی  ** از دهانش می بر آمد آتشی 
  • His (the Amír's) bloodthirsty wrath had become a rebel: a fire (of rage) was coming up from his mouth.

  • دو بار دست و پای امیر را بوسیدن و لابه کردن شفیعان و همسایگان زاهد 
  • How the neighbours of the ascetic, who were interceding for him, kissed the hands and feet of the Amír and humbly entreated him a second time.

  • آن شفیعان از دم هیهای او  ** چند بوسیدند دست و پای او 
  • At the breath of his clamour those intercessors kissed his hands and feet several times,

  • کای امیر از تو نشاید کین کشی  ** گر بشد باده تو بی‌باده خوشی 
  • Saying, “O Amír, it does not beseem thee to exact vengeance: if the wine is gone, (yet) thou art delicious without wine.

  • باده سرمایه ز لطف تو برد  ** لطف آب از لطف تو حسرت خورد  3565
  • Wine derives its original substance from thy goodliness; the goodliness of water regrets (its lack of) thy goodliness.

  • پادشاهی کن ببخشش ای رحیم  ** ای کریم ابن الکریم ابن الکریم 
  • Act royally, forgive him, O merciful one, O generous son of a generous sire and grandsire.

  • هر شرابی بنده‌ی این قد و خد  ** جمله مستان را بود بر تو حسد 
  • Every wine is the slave of this (comely) figure and (fair) cheek (of thine): all the drunken feel envy of thee.

  • هیچ محتاج می گلگون نه‌ای  ** ترک کن گلگونه تو گلگونه‌ای 
  • Thou hast no need of rosy wine: take leave of (its) rosiness, thou (thyself) art (its) rosiness.