- (Heated) by the flame of longing his blood boiled up, so that (the symptoms of) quinsy appeared in that mad (lover). 2000
- خون بجوش آمد ز شعله‌ی اشتیاق ** تا پدید آمد بر آن مجنون خناق
- Thereupon the physician came to treat him and said, “There is no resource but to bleed him.
- پس طبیب آمد بدار و کردنش ** گفت چاره نیست هیچ از رگ‌زنش
- Bleeding is necessary in order to remove the blood.” (So) a skilled phlebotomist came thither,
- رگ زدن باید برای دفع خون ** رگ‌زنی آمد بدانجا ذو فنون
- And bandaged his arm and took the lancet (to perform the operation); (but) straightway that passionate lover cried out,
- بازوش بست و گرفت آن نیش او ** بانک بر زد در زمان آن عشق‌خو
- “Take thy fee and leave the bleeding! If I die, let my old body go (to the grave)!”
- مزد خود بستان و ترک فصد کن ** گر بمیرم گو برو جسم کهن
- “Why,” said he, “wherefore art thou afraid of this, when thou hast no fear of the lion of the jungle? 2005
- گفت آخر از چه می‌ترسی ازین ** چون نمی‌ترسی تو از شیر عرین
- Lions and wolves and bears and onagers and (other) wild animals gather around thee by night;
- شیر و گرگ و خرس و هر گور و دده ** گرد بر گرد تو شب گرد آمده
- The smell of man does not come to them from thee because of the abundance of love and ecstasy in thy heart.”
- می نه آیدشان ز تو بوی بشر ** ز انبهی عشق و وجد اندر جگر
- Wolf and bear and lion know what love is: he that is blind to love is inferior to a dog.
- گرگ و خرس و شیر داند عشق چیست ** کم ز سگ باشد که از عشق او عمیست
- If the dog had not a vein of love, how should the dog of the Cave have sought (to win) the heart (of the Seven Sleepers)?
- گر رگ عشقی نبودی کلب را ** کی بجستی کلب کهفی قلب را