- Without guilt, without sin, without (having done) anything great or small—(even) the heretics hold not such oppression allowable.
- بیجنایت بیگنه بیبیش و کم ** ملحدان جایز ندارند این ستم
- Blood gushes from my mouth together with (my) words. O God, I beseech Thee, give him the retribution (which he deserves)!”
- میجهد خون از دهانم با سخن ** ای خدا آخر مکافاتش تو کن
- Every instant he was uttering a new curse, (while) he (the rider) kept beating him and saying, “Run in this plain.”
- هر زمان میگفت او نفرین نو ** اوش میزد کاندر این صحرا بدو
- Blows of the mace, and the rider (swift) as the wind! He (therefore) went on running and (now and) again falling on his face. 1890
- زخم دبوس و سوار همچو باد ** میدوید و باز در رو میفتاد
- He was full-fed and sleepy and fatigued: his feet and face became (covered with) a hundred thousand wounds.
- ممتلی و خوابناک و سست بد ** پا و رویش صد هزاران زخم شد
- Till nightfall he (the rider) drove (him) to and fro, until vomiting caused by bile overtook him.
- تا شبانگه میکشید و میگشاد ** تا ز صفرا قی شدن بر وی فتاد
- All the things he had eaten, bad or good, came up from him: the snake shot forth from him along with what he had eaten.
- زو بر آمد خوردهها زشت و نکو ** مار با آن خورده بیرون جست از او
- When he saw the snake outside of him, he fell on his knees before that beneficent man.
- چون بدید از خود برون آن مار را ** سجده آورد آن نکو کردار را
- As soon as he saw the horror of that black, ugly, big snake, those griefs departed from him. 1895
- سهم آن مار سیاه زشت زفت ** چون بدید آن دردها از وی برفت
- “Truly,” said he, “you are the Gabriel of (Divine) mercy, or you are God, for you are the lord of bounty.
- گفت خود تو جبرییل رحمتی ** یا خدایی که ولی نعمتی