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  • چون ز دکان و مکاس و قیل و قال  ** در فریب مردمت ناید ملال 
  • How is it that you are not weary of your shop and of haggling and disputing in order to cheat people?

  • چون ز غیبت و اکل لحم مردمان  ** شصت سالت سیریی نامد از آن 
  • How is it that you have not been surfeited by speaking ill of men in their absence and backbiting them for sixty years?

  • عشوه‌ها در صید شله‌ی کفته تو  ** بی ملولی بارها خوش گفته تو  4300
  • Time after time, without wearying, you have gaily spoken false words of flattery in pursuit of a vile woman; [Time after time, without wearying, you have gaily spoken false words of flattery in pursuit of a ruptured (deflowered) vulva;]

  • بار آخر گوییش سوزان و چست  ** گرم‌تر صد بار از بار نخست 
  • And the last time you utter them with fire and energy, a hundred times more ardently than the first time.

  • درد داروی کهن را نو کند  ** درد هر شاخ ملولی خو کند 
  • Passion makes the old medicine new; passion lops every bough of weariness.

  • کیمیای نو کننده دردهاست  ** کو ملولی آن طرف که درد خاست 
  • Passion is the elixir that makes (things) new: how (can there be) weariness where passion has arisen?

  • هین مزن تو از ملولی آه سرد  ** درد جو و درد جو و درد درد 
  • Oh, do not sigh heavily from weariness: seek passion, seek passion, passion, passion!

  • خادع دردند درمان‌های ژاژ  ** ره‌زنند و زرستانان رسم باژ  4305
  • Vain remedies (only) beguile (true) passion: they are (like) brigands and those who extort money in the form of tolls.

  • آب شوری نیست در مان عطش  ** وقت خوردن گر نماید سرد و خوش 
  • A briny water is no remedy for thirst: (even) if it seem cold and delicious at the moment of drinking,

  • لیک خادع گشته و مانع شد ز جست  ** ز آب شیرینی کزو صد سبزه رست 
  • Yet it beguiles (you) and prevents (you) from seeking the sweet water by which a hundred plants are made to grow.

  • هم‌چنین هر زر قلبی مانعست  ** از شناس زر خوش هرجا که هست 
  • Likewise every piece of spurious gold prevents (you) from recognising the good (genuine) gold wherever it is (to be found).

  • پا و پرت را به تزویری برید  ** که مراد تو منم گیر ای مرید 
  • It (the spurious gold) cuts off your feet and (clips) your wings by imposture, saying, “I am what you seek: take me, O seeker.”

  • گفت دردت چینم او خود درد بود  ** مات بود ار چه به ظاهر برد بود  4310
  • It says, “I will remove thy passion,” (but) in truth it is (worthless as) dregs: it is (really) checkmate (defeat) though it is victory in appearance.

  • رو ز درمان دروغین می‌گریز  ** تا شود دردت مصیب و مشک‌بیز 
  • Go, always be fleeing from the false remedy, in order that thy passion may be successful and rich in perfume.

  • گفت نه دزدی تو و نه فاسقی  ** مرد نیکی لیک گول و احمقی 
  • He (the night-patrol) said, “You are not a thief and you are not a reprobate: you are a good man, but you are foolish and silly.

  • بر خیال و خواب چندین ره کنی  ** نیست عقلت را تسوی روشنی 
  • You make such a long journey, (relying) on a phantasy and (mere) dream: your intelligence has not the least spark of brightness.

  • بارها من خواب دیدم مستمر  ** که به بغدادست گنجی مستتر 
  • I have dreamed many times, continuously, that there is a concealed treasure at Baghdád,

  • در فلان سوی و فلان کویی دفین  ** بود آن خود نام کوی این حزین  4315
  • Buried in such-and-such a quarter and such-and-such a street” —the name, in fact, was that of the street where this sorrowful man lived.

  • هست در خانه‌ی فلانی رو بجو  ** نام خانه و نام او گفت آن عدو 
  • “It is in so-and-so's house: go and seek it!”—the enemy (the night-patrol) named the house and mentioned his (the treasure-seeker's) name.

  • دیده‌ام خود بارها این خواب من  ** که به بغدادست گنجی در وطن 
  • “I myself have often dreamed that there is a treasure in the dwelling-place at Baghdád.

  • هیچ من از جا نرفتم زین خیال  ** تو به یک خوابی بیایی بی‌ملال 
  • I never left my home on account of this phantasy, (but) you in consequence of a single dream come (hither) without thinking of the fatigue.

  • خواب احمق لایق عقل ویست  ** هم‌چو او بی‌قیمتست و لاشیست 
  • The dreams of a fool are suitable to his intelligence: like it, they are worthless and good-for-nothing.

  • خواب زن کمتر ز خواب مرد دان  ** از پی نقصان عقل و ضعف جان  4320
  • Know that a woman's dreams are inferior to those of a man because of her deficiency of intelligence and weakness of soul.

  • خواب ناقص‌عقل و گول آید کساد  ** پس ز بی‌عقلی چه باشد خواب باد 
  • The dreams of one deficient in intelligence and foolish are of little value: what, then, must be the dreams produced by (entire) lack of intelligence? (Mere) wind!”

  • گفت با خود گنج در خانه‌ی منست  ** پس مرا آن‌جا چه فقر و شیونست 
  • He (the treasure-seeker) said to himself, “The treasure is in my house: then why am I poverty-stricken and lamenting there?