- (All other) grace is lost (vanishes away) in (comparison with) this grace, that one of the lowest is going up to the Seventh Heaven.
- لطف اندر لطف این گم میشود ** که اسفلی بر چرخ هفتم میشود
- Hark, for a marvellous falcon has fallen to thee: no seeker will find it in (his) search.” 2625
- هین که یک بازی فتادت بوالعجب ** هیچ طالب این نیابد در طلب
- He (Pharaoh) said, “I will tell Hámán, O veiled (modest) one: the counsel of the vizier is necessary to the king.”
- گفت با هامان بگویم ای ستیر ** شاه را لازم بود رای وزیر
- She said, “Do not tell Hámán this secret: what should a blind decrepit old woman know about a falcon?”
- گفت با هامان مگو این راز را ** کور کمپیری چه داند باز را
- Story of the king's falcon and the decrepit old woman.
- قصهی باز پادشاه و کمپیر زن
- (If) you give a white falcon to a decrepit old woman, she will clip its talons for the sake of (its supposed) welfare.
- باز اسپیدی به کمپیری دهی ** او ببرد ناخنش بهر بهی
- The blind old woman will blindly clip the talons which are the source of its usefulness in the chase,
- ناخنی که اصل کارست و شکار ** کور کمپیری ببرد کوروار
- Saying, “Where has thy mother been, that thy talons are so long, O prince?” 2630
- که کجا بودست مادر که ترا ** ناخنان زین سان درازست ای کیا
- She clipped its talons and beak and wings: the filthy old hag does this at the time of (at the time when she is moved by) affection.
- ناخن و منقار و پرش را برید ** وقت مهر این میکند زال پلید
- When she gives it tutmáj, it will not eat; (then) she is enraged and tears up her feelings of affection,
- چونک تتماجش دهد او کم خورد ** خشم گیرد مهرها را بر درد
- Saying, “I have cooked such (fine) tutmáj for thee, and thou art showing pride and insolence.
- که چنین تتماج پختم بهر تو ** تو تکبر مینمایی و عتو