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  • An infidel with both hands tied! (Surely) he is ready for killing: what is the cause of this delay in slaughtering him?”
  • کافر بسته دو دست او کشتنیست  ** بسملش را موجب تاخیر چیست 

  • One of them went after him to investigate: he found the infidel on the top of him (the Súfí), 3750
  • آمد آن یک در تفحص در پیش  ** دید کافر را به بالای ویش 

  • Tanquam mas super femina, and the infidel couching upon the dervish like a lion. [Like a male upon a female, and the infidel [sic: prisoner] couching upon the dervish like a lion.]
  • هم‌چو نر بالای ماده وآن اسیر  ** هم‌چو شیری خفته بالای فقیر 

  • With his hands tied, he was gnawing the Súfí's throat in obstinate strife.
  • دستها بسته همی‌خایید او  ** از سر استیز صوفی را گلو 

  • The infidel was gnawing his throat with his teeth: the Súfí lay beneath, senseless.
  • گبر می‌خایید با دندان گلوش  ** صوفی افتاده به زیر و رفته هوش 

  • The pinioned infidel, (fierce) as a cat, had wounded his throat without (using) a lance.
  • دست‌بسته گبر و هم‌چون گربه‌ای  ** خسته کرده حلق او بی‌حربه‌ای 

  • The prisoner had half-killed him with his teeth: his beard was soaked in blood from the throat of the dervish. 3755
  • نیم کشتش کرده با دندان اسیر  ** ریش او پر خون ز حلق آن فقیر 

  • (This is) like you, who under the violence of your pinioned fleshly soul have become as senseless and abject as that Súfí.
  • هم‌چو تو کز دست نفس بسته دست  ** هم‌چو آن صوفی شدی بی‌خویش و پست 

  • O you whose religion is incapable of (climbing) a single hillock, there are a hundred thousand mountains in front of you.
  • ای شده عاجز ز تلی کیش تو  ** صد هزاران کوهها در پیش تو 

  • You are dead with fear of a ridge of this (small) size: how will you climb up precipices (big) as a mountain?
  • زین قدر خرپشته مردی از شکوه  ** چون روی بر عقبه‌های هم‌چو کوه