The gazelle, wild with terror, was fleeing in every direction: at night he (the hunter) poured (pieces of chopped) straw before the donkeys.835
آهو از وحشت به هر سو میگریخت ** او به پیش آن خران شب کاه ریخت
(Moved) by hunger and (ravenous) appetite, every cow and donkey was devouring the straw, (as though it were) sweeter than sugar.
از مجاعت و اشتها هر گاو و خر ** کاه را میخورد خوشتر از شکر
Now the gazelle would run in fright from side to side, now it would turn its face away from the smoke and dust of the straw.
گاه آهو میرمید از سو به سو ** گه ز دود و گرد که میتافت رو
Whosoever is left (in company) with his opposite, they (who are wise) have deemed that punishment (terrible) as death,
هرکرا با ضد خود بگذاشتند ** آن عقوبت را چو مرگ انگاشتند
So that Solomon said, “Unless the hoopoe make a respectable excuse for his absence,
تا سلیمان گفت که آن هدهد اگر ** هجر را عذری نگوید معتبر
I will kill him or inflict upon him a torment, a torment severe beyond (all) calculation.”840
بکشمش یا خود دهم او را عذاب ** یک عذاب سخت بیرون از حساب
Hark, what is that torment, O trusted (friend)? To be in a cage without thy congener.
هان کدامست آن عذاب این معتمد ** در قفص بودن به غیر جنس خود
O Man, thou art in torment on account of this body: the bird, thy spirit, is imprisoned with one of another kind.
زین بدن اندر عذابی ای بشر ** مرغ روحت بسته با جنسی دگر
The spirit is a falcon, and the (bodily) properties are crows: it has (receives) painful brands from the crows and owls.
روح بازست و طبایع زاغها ** دارد از زاغان و چغدان داغها
It remains amongst them in sore misery, like an Abú Bakr in the city of Sabzawár.
او بمانده در میانشان زارزار ** همچو بوبکری به شهر سبزوار
Story of Mohammed Khwárizmsháh who took by war (force) the city of Sabzawár, where all (the inhabitants) are Ráfizís (extreme Shí‘ites). (When) they begged him to spare their lives, he said, “I will grant (you) security as soon as ye produce from this city a man named Abú Bakr and present him to me.”
حکایت محمد خوارزمشاه کی شهر سبزوار کی همه رافضی باشند به جنگ بگرفت اما جان خواستند گفت آنگه امان دهم کی ازین شهر پیش من به هدیه ابوبکر نامی بیارید