- Assuredly they (the reason and the flesh) are like Majnún and his she-camel: that one is pulling forward and this one backward in (mutual) enmity.
- همچو مجنوناند و چون ناقهش یقین ** میکشد آن پیش و این واپس به کین
- Majnún's desire is speeding to the presence of that (beloved) Laylá; the she camel's desire is running back after her foal.
- میل مجنون پیش آن لیلی روان ** میل ناقه پس پی کره دوان
- If Majnún forgot himself for one moment, the she-camel would turn and go back. 1535
- یک دم ار مجنون ز خود غافل بدی ** ناقه گردیدی و واپس آمدی
- Since his body was full of love and passion, he had no resource but to become beside himself.
- عشق و سودا چونک پر بودش بدن ** مینبودش چاره از بیخود شدن
- That which is regardful was (ever) reason: passion for Laylá carried (his) reason away.
- آنک او باشد مراقب عقل بود ** عقل را سودای لیلی در ربود
- But the she-camel was very regardful and alert: whenever she saw her toggle slack
- لیک ناقه بس مراقب بود و چست ** چون بدیدی او مهار خویش سست
- She would at once perceive that he had become heedless and dazed, and would turn her face back to the foal without delay.
- فهم کردی زو که غافل گشت و دنگ ** رو سپس کردی به کره بیدرنگ
- When he came to himself again, he would see on the spot that she had gone back many leagues. 1540
- چون به خود باز آمدی دیدی ز جا ** کو سپس رفتست بس فرسنگها
- In these conditions Majnún remained going to and fro for years on a three days' journey.
- در سه روزه ره بدین احوالها ** ماند مجنون در تردد سالها
- He said, “O camel, since we both are lovers, therefore we two contraries are unsuitable fellow-travellers.
- گفت ای ناقه چو هر دو عاشقیم ** ما دو ضد پس همره نالایقیم