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  • زهر آمد انتظارش اندر چشش  ** دایما در مرگ باشی زان روش 
  • Waiting to see is poison to (spiritual) perception: by that method thou wilt remain perpetually in death.

  • اصل دان آن را بگیرش در کنار  ** بازره دایم ز مرگ انتظار 
  • Recognise it as the root, clasp it to thy bosom, and be for ever delivered from the death of waiting to see.

  • نواختن سلطان ایاز را 
  • How the Sultan (Mahmud) showed favour to Ayáz.

  • ای ایاز پر نیاز صدق‌کیش  ** صدق تو از بحر و از کوهست بیش 
  • “O Ayáz, who art full of humbleness and sincere in all thy ways, thy sincerity is mightier than sea and mountain.

  • نه به وقت شهوتت باشد عثار  ** که رود عقل چو کوهت کاه‌وار 
  • For thee there is no stumbling in the hour of lust, so that thy reason, which resembles a mountain (in solidity), should go (hither and thither) like a straw;

  • نه به وقت خشم و کینه صبرهات  ** سست گردد در قرار و در ثبات  3710
  • Nor in the hour of anger and vengeance do thy powers of long-suffering fail to hold  fast and firm.”

  • مردی این مردیست نه ریش و ذکر  ** ورنه بودی شاه مردان کیر خر 
  • Virilitas haec virilitas est, barba et penis non est; sin minus, rex virorum esset veretrum asini. [Manhood is this manliness, not (just) a beard and a penis; otherwise, an ass’s penis would be the king of men.]

  • حق کرا خواندست در قرآن رجال  ** کی بود این جسم را آنجا مجال 
  • Whom has God in the Qur’an called men? How should there be room for this body there?

  • روح حیوان را چه قدرست ای پدر  ** آخر از بازار قصابان گذر 
  • What worth has the animal soul? O father, come now, pass through the market of the butchers,

  • صد هزاران سر نهاده بر شکم  ** ارزشان از دنبه و از دم کم 
  • (And you will see) a hundred thousand (sheeps’) heads laid on paunches (tripe), of which (heads) the value is less than (that of) the fat caudal part and tail.

  • روسپی باشد که از جولان کیر  ** عقل او موشی شود شهوت چو شیر  3715
  • Meretrix est (quaevis femina) cui penis impetu mens (tanquam) mus fiat, libido tanquam leo. [A prostitute is (one) who, due to the movement of a penis, (her) intellect becomes a mouse (and her) lust like a lion.]

  • وصیت کردن پدر دختر را کی خود را نگهدار تا حامله نشوی از شوهرت 
  • How a father enjoined his daughter to take care lest she should become with child by her husband.

  • خواجه‌ای بودست او را دختری  ** زهره‌خدی مه‌رخی سیمین‌بری 
  • There was a Khwája who had a daughter with cheeks like (those of) Venus, a face like the moon, and a breast (white) as silver.

  • گشت بالغ داد دختر را به شو  ** شو نبود اندر کفائت کفو او 
  • (When) she reached maturity, he gave his daughter to a husband: as regards social rank the husband was not a (good) match for her.

  • خربزه چون در رسد شد آبناک  ** گر بنشکافی تلف گردد هلاک 
  • When a melon is ripe it becomes watery and goes to waste and ruin unless you slice it.

  • چون ضرورت بود دختر را بداد  ** او بناکفوی ز تخویف فساد 
  • Since it was (a case of) necessity, he gave his daughter to one who was not (socially) her match, in fear of the evil (that might ensue).

  • گفت دختر را کزین داماد نو  ** خویشتن پرهیز کن حامل مشو  3720
  • He said to his daughter, “Guard thyself from this new bridegroom, do not become with child;

  • کز ضرورت بود عقد این گدا  ** این غریب‌اشمار را نبود وفا 
  • For thy marriage to this beggar was (dictated) by necessity; there is no constancy in this vagabond fellow.

  • ناگهان به جهد کند ترک همه  ** بر تو طفل او بماند مظلمه 
  • Of a sudden he will jump off and leave all behind: his child will remain on thy hands as a wrong (for which there is no redress).”

  • گفت دختر کای پدر خدمت کنم  ** هست پندت دل‌پذیر و مغتنم 
  • The daughter replied, “O father, I will do service (to thee): thy counsel is acceptable and prized.”

  • هر دو روزی هر سه روزی آن پدر  ** دختر خود را بفرمودی حذر 
  • Every two or three days the father would enjoin his daughter to take precautions;

  • حامله شد ناگهان دختر ازو  ** چون بود هر دو جوان خاتون و شو  3725
  • (Nevertheless) she suddenly became with child by him (her husband): how should it be (otherwise when) both the wife and the husband are young?.

  • از پدر او را خفی می‌داشتش  ** پنج ماهه گشت کودک یا که شش 
  • She kept it (the child) hidden from her father, (till) the child was five or six months old.

  • گشت پیدا گفت بابا چیست این  ** من نگفتم که ازو دوری گزین 
  • (Then) the discovery was made. “What is this?” asked her father; “did not I tell thee to adopt (the practice of) withdrawal from him?

  • این وصیتهای من خود باد بود  ** که نکردت پند و وعظم هیچ سود 
  • These injunctions of mine were (mere) wind, forsooth! My counsel and exhortations have been of no use to thee.”

  • گفت بابا چون کنم پرهیز من  ** آتش و پنبه‌ست بی‌شک مرد و زن 
  • “Father,” said she, “how should I guard myself? Man and wife, beyond doubt, are (as) fire and cotton.

  • پنبه را پرهیز از آتش کجاست  ** یا در آتش کی حفاظست و تقاست  3730
  • What means has the cotton of guarding itself from the fire, or when is there (any) carefulness and caution in the fire?”