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1359-1368

  • Say so-and-so and do so-and-so.” I abridge the talk of the women.
  • این چنین گو وین چنین کن وآنچنان  ** مختصر کردم من افسانه‌ی زنان 

  • Take the gist of what is to the purpose. When the discreet old woman had sent her (the maid) away, 1360
  • آنچ مقصودست مغز آن بگیر  ** چون براهش کرد آن زال ستیر 

  • Propter ebrietatem libidinis gaudebat: she shut the door, saying meanwhile, [She was happy from the intoxication of (her) lust: she shut the door, saying meanwhile,]
  • بود از مستی شهوت شادمان  ** در فرو بست و همی‌گفت آن زمان 

  • “I have secured privacy, I will shout in thanksgiving: I am delivered from the four dángs and the two dángs.”
  • یافتم خلوت زنم از شکر بانگ  ** رسته‌ام از چار دانگ و از دو دانگ 

  • Gaudio hircus (prurigo) feminae quae in igne libidinis asini inquieta erat mille factus est. [From joy, the woman’s goat (of lust) had become a thousand (-fold); (she became) restless in the sparks of the ass’s lust.]
  • از طرب گشته بزان زن هزار  ** در شرار شهوت خر بی‌قرار 

  • Qualis hircus est ille quem tanta libido ludibrium fecit? Stultum deludi non est mirabile. [What goat (was) that?—for lust took her goat (made a fool of her). The taking of a fool’s goat is not (something) amazing.]
  • چه بزان که آن شهوت او را بز گرفت  ** بز گرفتن گیج را نبود شگفت 

  • Lustful desire makes the heart deaf and blind, so that an ass seems like Joseph, fire (like) light. 1365
  • میل شهوت کر کند دل را و کور  ** تا نماید خر چو یوسف نار نور 

  • Oh, many a one intoxicated with fire and seeking fire deems himself absolute light.
  • ای بسا سرمست نار و نارجو  ** خویشتن را نور مطلق داند او 

  • (He is lost) unless a (chosen) servant of God, or the pull of God (Himself), lead him into the (right) way and turn over his leaf,
  • جز مگر بنده‌ی خدا یا جذب حق  ** با رهش آرد بگرداند ورق 

  • So that he may know that the fiery phantom (which he mistook for light) in the Path is but a loan (unreal).
  • تا بداند که آن خیال ناریه  ** در طریقت نیست الا عاریه