- To-morrow I will take the chest into the street and burn it in the midst of the market at the cross-ways,
- من برم صندوق را فردا به کو ** پس بسوزم در میان چارسو
- That true believer and Zoroastrian and Jew may see there was nothing in this chest but (cause for) cursing.”
- تا ببیند مومن و گبر و جهود ** که درین صندوق جز لعنت نبود
- “O husband,” cried the woman, “come now, give up this (idea)!” (However), he swore several times that he would do just as he had said.
- گفت زن هی در گذر ای مرد ازین ** خورد سوگندان که نکنم جز چنین
- Early (next morning) he (went) like the wind, fetched a porter, and immediately put the chest on his back. 4490
- از پگه حمال آورد او چو باد ** زود آن صندوق بر پشتش نهاد
- (He set off with it, while) the cadi inside the chest shouted in an agony (of terror), “O porter! O porter!”
- اندر آن صندوق قاضی از نکال ** بانگ میزد که ای حمال و ای حمال
- The porter looked to the right and the left to see from what direction the shouts and warnings were coming.
- کرد آن حمال راست و چپ نظر ** کز چه سو در میرسد بانک و خبر
- “I wonder,” said he, “is it a hátif, this voice which is calling me, or is it a peri (jinní) summoning me mysteriously?”
- هاتفست این داعی من ای عجب ** یا پریام میکند پنهان طلب
- When the shouts followed one another in succession and increased, he said, “’Tis not a hátif,” and recovered himself.
- چون پیاپی گشت آن آواز و بیش ** گفت هاتف نیست باز آمد به خویش
- At last he perceived that the shouts and cries for help came from the chest and that somebody was concealed in it. 4495
- عاقبت دانست کان بانگ و فغان ** بد ز صندوق و کسی در وی نهان
- The lover who has fallen passionately in love with an (earthly) object of affection has gone into the chest, though (in appearance) he is outside.
- عاشقی کو در غم معشوق رفت ** گر چه بیرونست در صندوق رفت