- A thorn in the foot is so hard to find: how (then) is it with a thorn in the heart? Answer (that)!
- خار در پا شد چنین دشوار یاب ** خار در دل چون بود واده جواب
- If every base fellow had seen the thorn in the heart, when would sorrows gain the upper hand over any one?
- خار در دل گر بدیدی هر خسی ** دست کی بودی غمان را بر کسی
- Somebody sticks a thorn under a donkey's tail: the donkey does not know how to get rid of it: he starts jumping.
- کس به زیر دم خر خاری نهد ** خر نداند دفع آن بر میجهد
- He jumps, and the thorn strikes more firmly (pierces deeper): it needs an intelligent person to extract a thorn. 155
- بر جهد و ان خار محکمتر زند ** عاقلی باید که خاری بر کند
- In order to get rid of the thorn, the donkey from irritation and pain went on kicking and dealing blows in a hundred places,
- خر ز بهر دفع خار از سوز و درد ** جفته میانداخت صد جا زخم کرد
- (But) that thorn-removing physician was an expert: putting his hand on one spot after another, he tested (it).
- آن حکیم خارچین استاد بود ** دست میزد جا به جا میآزمود
- He inquired of the girl concerning her friends, by way of narrative,
- ز ان کنیزک بر طریق داستان ** باز میپرسید حال دوستان
- And she disclosed to the physician (many) circumstances touching her home and (former) masters and town and dwelling.
- با حکیم او قصهها میگفت فاش ** از مقام و خاجگان و شهر تاش
- He listened to her story (while) he continued to observe her pulse and its beating, 160
- سوی قصه گفتنش میداشت گوش ** سوی نبض و جستنش میداشت هوش
- So that at whosoever's name her pulse should begin to throb, (he might know that) that person is the object of her soul's desire in the world.
- تا که نبض از نام کی گردد جهان ** او بود مقصود جانش در جهانا ن