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
Thy affection and toggle (propensity) are not in accord with me: it behoves (me) to choose parting from thy companionship.”
نیستت بر وفق من مهر و مهار ** کرد باید از تو صحبت اختیار
These two fellow-travellers (the reason and the flesh) are brigands waylaying each other: lost is the spirit that does not dismount from the body.
این دو همره یکدگر را راه‌زن ** گمره آن جان کو فرو ناید ز تن
The spirit, because of separation from the highest Heaven, is in a (great) want; the body, on account of passion for the thorn-shrub (of sensual pleasure), is like a she-camel.1545
جان ز هجر عرش اندر فاقه‌ای ** تن ز عشق خاربن چون ناقه‌ای