- With mute eloquence he was saying, “O Shaykhs, (have) some pity, for I am consumed (with anguish) because of this raw impudent rogue.”
- با زبان حال میگفت ای شیوخ ** رحمتی که سوختم زین خام شوخ
- What that ass suffered of pain and torment, the land-bird suffers (the same) in a flood of water.
- آن چه آن خر دید از رنج و عذاب ** مرغ خاکی بیند اندر سیل آب
- (All) that night till dawn the wretched ass, from exceeding hunger, rolled frequently on his side. 240
- بس به پهلو گشت آن شب تا سحر ** آن خر بیچاره از جوع البقر
- Day rose. The servant came at morn and at once laid the saddle firmly on the ass's back.
- روز شد خادم بیامد بامداد ** زود پالان جست بر پشتش نهاد
- After the fashion of ass-dealers he gave him two or three blows (with a goad): he did to the ass what is befitting from such a cur (as he was).
- خر فروشانه دو سه زخمش بزد ** کرد با خر آن چه ز آن سگ میسزد
- The sharpness of the sting set the ass jumping; where is the tongue (has an ass such a tongue) that he may describe his own state (feelings)?
- خر جهنده گشت از تیزی نیش ** کو زبان تا خر بگوید حال خویش
- How the people of the caravan supposed the Sufi's beast was ill
- گمان بردن کاروانیان که بهمیهای صوفی رنجور است
- When the Súfí mounted and got going, he (the ass) began to fall on his face every time,
- چون که صوفی بر نشست و شد روان ** رو در افتادن گرفت او هر زمان
- (And) every time the people (the travellers) lifted him up: they all thought he was ill. 245
- هر زمانش خلق بر میداشتند ** جمله رنجورش همیپنداشتند
- One would twist his ears hard, while another sought for the (lacerated) part under his palate,
- آن یکی گوشش همیپیچید سخت ** و آن دگر در زیر گامش جست لخت
- And another searched for the stone in his shoe, and another looked at the dirt in his eye.
- و آن دگر در نعل او میجست سنگ ** و آن دگر در چشم او میدید زنگ