Rumi's Masnavi - He fell unconscious, like a carcase, at noontide in the middle of the thoroughfare.

He fell unconscious, like a carcase, at noontide in the middle of the thoroughfare.

هم‌چو مردار اوفتاد او بی‌خبر ** نیم روز اندر میان ره‌گذر

Thereupon the people gathered over him, all crying Lá hawl and applying remedies. 260

جمع آمد خلق بر وی آن زمان ** جملگان لاحول‌گو درمان کنان

One was putting his hand on his (the tanner's) heart, while another sprinkled rose-water upon him;

آن یکی کف بر دل او می براند ** وز گلاب آن دیگری بر وی فشاند

(For) he did not know that from (smelling) rose-water in the meadow (the bazaar) that calamity had overtaken him.

او نمی‌دانست کاندر مرتعه ** از گلاب آمد ورا آن واقعه

One was massaging his hands and head, and another was bringing moist clay mixed with straw (to serve as a cold plaster);

آن یکی دستش همی‌مالید و سر ** وآن دگر کهگل همی آورد تر

One compounded incense of aloes-wood and sugar, while another was divesting him of part of his clothes;

آن بخور عود و شکر زد به هم ** وآن دگر از پوششش می‌کرد کم

And another felt his pulse, to see how it was beating; and another was smelling his mouth, 265

وآن دگر نبضش که تا چون می‌جهد ** وان دگر بوی از دهانش می‌ستد

To see whether he had drunk wine or eaten beng or hashish: the people (having exhausted every resource) remained in despair at his insensibility.

تا که می خوردست و یا بنگ و حشیش ** خلق درماندند اندر بیهشیش

So they speedily brought the news to his kinsfolk—“Such and such a person is lying there in a state of collapse;

پس خبر بردند خویشان را شتاب ** که فلان افتاده است آن‌جا خراب

No one knows how he was stricken with catalepsy, or what it was that led to this public exposure.”

کس نمی داند که چون مصروع گشت ** یا چه شد کو را فتاد از بام طشت