He asked (again), “What is it that you have drunk?” He rejoined, “That which is hidden in the jar.”2390
گفت آن چه خوردهای آن چیست آن ** گفت آن که در سبو مخفی است آن
These questions and answers were becoming a (vicious) circle. The Inspector was left (stuck) in the mud, like an ass.
دور میشد این سؤال و این جواب ** ماند چون خر محتسب اندر خلاب
The Inspector said to him, “Come now, say ‘Ah’”; (but) the drunken man, at the moment of utterance, said “Hú, Hú.”
گفت او را محتسب هین آه کن ** مست هو هو کرد هنگام سخن
“I told you to say ‘Ah’,” said he; “you are saying ‘Hú’.” “(Because) I am glad,” he replied, “while you are bent with grief.
گفت گفتم آه کن هو میکنی ** گفت من شاد و تو از غم دم زنی
‘Ah’ is (uttered) on account of pain and grief and injustice; the ‘Hú, Hú’ of the wine-drinkers is from joy.”
آه از درد و غم و بیدادی است ** هوی هوی می خوران از شادی است
The Inspector said, “I know nothing about this. Get up, get up! Don't retail mystic lore, and leave off this wrangling.”2395
محتسب گفت این ندانم خیز خیز ** معرفت متراش و بگذار این ستیز
“Go away,” said the man; “what have you to do with me?” “You are drunk,” the Inspector said. “Get up and come to prison.”
گفت رو تو از کجا من از کجا ** گفت مستی خیز تا زندان بیا
Said the drunken man, “O Inspector, let me alone and go away. How is it possible to carry off pledges from one that is naked?
گفت مست ای محتسب بگذار و رو ** از برهنه کی توان بردن گرو
If indeed I had had the power to walk, I should have gone to my house—and (then) how would this (affair between us) have occurred?
گر مرا خود قوت رفتن بدی ** خانهی خود رفتمی وین کی شدی
Were I (still) possessed of understanding and of contingent (unreal) existence, I should be on the bench, (giving instruction) like the Shaykhs.”
من اگر با عقل و با امکانمی ** همچو شیخان بر سر دکانمی
How the inquirer, for the second time, drew that eminent (saint) into conversation, in order that his condition might be made better known (to the inquirer).
دوم بار در سخن کشیدن سایل آن بزرگ را تا حال او معلوم تر گردد