- Then the announcer opened his lips to describe his (the eldest brother's) plight in the presence of the elect King.
- پس معرف پیش شاه منتجب ** در بیان حال او بگشود لب
- He said, “O King, he is fallen a prey to thy beneficence: show kingly favour (to him), for he has no means of escape.
- گفت شاها صید احسان توست ** پادشاهی کن که بی بیرون شوست
- He has clutched the saddle-strap of this empire: stroke his distraught head with thy (royal) hand!”
- دست در فتراک این دولت زدست ** بر سر سرمست او بر مال دست
- The King replied, “This youth will obtain (from me) every high dignity and sovereignty that he seeks. 4410
- گفت شه هر منصبی و ملکتی ** که التماسش هست یابد این فتی
- I will bestow on him here (and now) twenty times as many kingdoms as he has relinquished, and myself into the bargain.”
- بیست چندان ملک کو شد زان بری ** بخشمش اینجا و ما خود بر سری
- He (the announcer) said, “Since thy royal majesty sowed in him the seed of love, how could it leave (in him) any passion except passion for thee?
- گفت تا شاهیت در وی عشق کاشت ** جز هوای تو هوایی کی گذاشت
- ’Tis so agreeable to him to be thy slave that kingship has become cold comfort to his heart.
- بندگی تش چنان درخورد شد ** که شهی اندر دل او سرد شد
- He has gambled away kingship and princedom: for thy sake he has put up with living in exile.
- شاهی و شه‌زادگی در باختست ** از پی تو در غریبی ساختست
- He is a Súfí: he has flung away his mantle in ecstasy: how should he turn again to his mantle? 4415
- صوفیست انداخت خرقه وجد در ** کی رود او بر سر خرقه دگر
- To hanker for the given away mantle and repent (of having given it) is as much as to say, ‘I have been swindled:
- میل سوی خرقه‌ی داده و ندم ** آنچنان باشد که من مغبون شدم