The king gathered the physicians together from left and right and said to them, “The life of us both is in your hands.
شه طبیبان جمع کرد از چپ و راست ** گفت جان هر دو در دست شماست
My life is of no account, (but) she is the life of my life. I am in pain and wounded: she is my remedy.
جان من سهل است جان جانم اوست ** دردمند و خسته‌‌ام درمانم اوست
Whoever heals her that is my life will bear away with him my treasure and pearls, large and small.”45
هر که درمان کرد مر جان مرا ** برد گنج و در و مرجان مرا
They all answered him, saying, “We will hazard our lives and summon all our intelligence and put it into the common stock.
جمله گفتندش که جان‌‌بازی کنیم ** فهم گرد آریم و انبازی کنیم
Each of us is a Messiah of a world (of people): in our hands is a medicine for every pain."
هر یکی از ما مسیح عالمی است ** هر الم را در کف ما مرهمی است
In their arrogance they did not say, “If God will”; therefore God showed unto them the weakness of Man.
گر خدا خواهد نگفتند از بطر ** پس خدا بنمودشان عجز بشر
I mean (a case in which) omission of the saving clause is (due to) a hardness of heart; not the mere saying of these words, for that is a superficial circumstance.
ترک استثنا مرادم قسوتی است ** نی همین گفتن که عارض حالتی است
How many a one has not pronounced the saving clause, and yet his soul is in harmony with the soul of it!50
ای بسا ناورده استثنا به گفت ** جان او با جان استثناست جفت
The more cures and remedies they applied, the more did the illness increase, and the need was not fulfilled.
هر چه کردند از علاج و از دوا ** گشت رنج افزون و حاجت ناروا
The sick girl became (thin) as a hair, (while) the eyes of the king flowed with tears of blood, like a river.
آن کنیزک از مرض چون موی شد ** چشم شه از اشک خون چون جوی شد