English    Türkçe    فارسی   

1
254-263

  • Tearing his beard and saying, “Alas! the sun of my prosperity has gone under the clouds.
  • ریش بر می‌‌کند و می‌‌گفت ای دریغ ** کافتاب نعمتم شد زیر میغ‌‌

  • Would that my hand had been broken (powerless) at the moment when I struck (such a blow) on the head of that sweet-tongued one?” 255
  • دست من بشکسته بودی آن زمان ** که زدم من بر سر آن خوش زبان‌‌

  • He was giving presents to every dervish, that he might get back the speech of his bird.
  • هدیه‌‌ها می‌‌داد هر درویش را ** تا بیابد نطق مرغ خویش را

  • After three days and three nights, he was seated on the bench, distraught and sorrowful, like a man in despair,
  • بعد سه روز و سه شب حیران و زار ** بر دکان بنشسته بد نومید وار

  • Showing the bird every sort of hidden (unfamiliar) thing (in the hope) that maybe it would begin to speak.
  • می‌‌نمود آن مرغ را هر گون شگفت ** تا که باشد کاندر آید او بگفت‌‌

  • Meanwhile a bare-headed dervish, clad in a jawlaq (coarse woollen frock), passed by, with a head hairless as the outside of bowl and basin.
  • جولقیی سر برهنه می‌‌گذشت ** با سر بی‌‌مو چو پشت طاس و طشت‌‌

  • Thereupon the parrot cried to the dervish, as rational persons (might have done). 260
  • طوطی اندر گفت آمد در زمان ** بانگ بر درویش زد که هی فلان‌‌

  • How were you mixed up with the bald, O baldpate? Did you, then, spill oil from the bottle?”
  • از چه ای کل با کلان آمیختی ** تو مگر از شیشه روغن ریختی‌‌

  • The bystanders laughed at the parrot's inference, because it deemed the wearer of the frock to be like itself.
  • از قیاسش خنده آمد خلق را ** کو چو خود پنداشت صاحب دلق را

  • Do not measure the actions of holy men by (the analogy of) yourself, though shér (lion) and shír (milk) are similar in writing.
  • کار پاکان را قیاس از خود مگیر ** گر چه ماند در نبشتن شیر و شیر