- The youth kept driving the people away from him (the tanner), in order that those persons might not see his treatment (of the sick man).
- خلق را می‌راند از وی آن جوان ** تا علاجش را نبینند آن کسان
- He brought his head (close) to his ear, like one telling a secret; then he put the thing (which he had in his hand) to his (the tanner’s) nose; 290
- سر به گوشش برد هم‌چون رازگو ** پس نهاد آن چیز بر بینی او
- For he had rubbed the dog’s dung on his palm: he had deemed it (to be) the remedy for the polluted brain.
- کو به کف سرگین سگ ساییده بود ** داروی مغز پلید آن دیده بود
- A short while passed: the man began to move: the people said, “This was a wonderful charm;
- ساعتی شد مرد جنبیدن گرفت ** خلق گفتند این فسونی بد شگفت
- For this (youth) recited charms and breathed (them) into his ear: he was dead: the charms came to succour him.”
- کین بخواند افسون به گوش او دمید ** مرده بود افسون به فریادش رسید
- The movement of iniquitous folk is to the quarter in which there is fornication and ogling glances and eyebrows.
- جنبش اهل فساد آن سو بود ** که زنا و غمزه و ابرو بود
- Any one to whom the musk, admonition, is of no use must necessarily make himself familiar with the bad smell. 295
- هر کرا مشک نصیحت سود نیست ** لا جرم با بوی بد خو کردنیست
- God has called the polytheists najas (uncleanness)’ for the reason that they were born in dung from of old.
- مشرکان را زان نجس خواندست حق ** کاندرون پشک زادند از سبق
- The worm that has been born in dung will nevermore change its evil nature by means of ambergris.
- کرم کو زادست در سرگین ابد ** می‌نگرداند به عنبر خوی خود
- Since the largesse of sprinkled light did not strike upon him (the wicked man), he is wholly body, without heart (spirit), like (empty) husks.
- چون نزد بر وی نثار رش نور ** او همه جسمست بی‌دل چون قشور