- They were wounded with arrows by the foe: the barbs entered them on every side.
- زخمهای تیر خوردند از عدو ** رفت پیکانها دریشان سو به سو
- (When) those Arab horses returned from the campaign, they all fell down and lay on their backs in the stable.
- از غزا باز آمدند آن تازیان ** اندر آخر جمله افتاده ستان
- Their legs were tightly bandaged with (strips of) canvas: the farriers were standing in file,
- پایهاشان بسته محکم با نوار ** نعلبندان ایستاده بر قطار
- Piercing their bodies with the scalpel in order to extract the barbs from their wounds.
- می‌شکافیدند تن‌هاشان بنیش ** تا برون آرند پیکانها ز ریش
- The ass saw (all) that, and was saying, “O God, I am satisfied with poverty and health. 2380
- آن خر آن را دید و می‌گفت ای خدا ** من به فقر و عافیت دادم رضا
- I have no taste for that (plentiful) food and those hideous wounds.” Every one who desires (spiritual) health abandons the world.
- زان نوا بیزارم و زان زخم زشت ** هرکه خواهد عافیت دنیا بهشت
- How the fox disapproved of the saying of the ass, “I am satisfied with my lot.”
- ناپسندیدن روباه گفتن خر را کی من راضیم به قسمت
- The fox said, “It is an (indispensable) obligation to seek lawful provision in obedience (to the Divine command).
- گفت روبه جستن رزق حلال ** فرض باشد از برای امتثال
- (This) is the world of means: nothing is obtained without a means: therefore it is important (necessary) to seek (provision).
- عالم اسباب و چیزی بی‌سبب ** می‌نباید پس مهم باشد طلب
- ‘And seek ye of the bounty of God’ is (a Divine) command, lest they (men) should seize (the property of others) by violence, like the leopard.
- وابتغوا من فضل الله است امر ** تا نباید غصب کردن هم‌چو نمر
- The Prophet hath said, ‘The door is shut against (the arrival of) provision, O youth; and on the door there are locks.’ 2385
- گفت پیغامبر که بر رزق ای فتی ** در فرو بسته‌ست و بر در قفلها