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  • He inquired of the girl concerning her friends, by way of narrative,
  • ز ان کنیزک بر طریق داستان ** باز می‌‌پرسید حال دوستان‌‌

  • And she disclosed to the physician (many) circumstances touching her home and (former) masters and town and dwelling.
  • با حکیم او قصه‌‌ها می‌‌گفت فاش ** از مقام و خاجگان و شهر تاش‌‌

  • He listened to her story (while) he continued to observe her pulse and its beating, 160
  • سوی قصه گفتنش می‌‌داشت گوش ** سوی نبض و جستنش می‌‌داشت هوش‌‌

  • So that at whosoever's name her pulse should begin to throb, (he might know that) that person is the object of her soul's desire in the world.
  • تا که نبض از نام کی گردد جهان ** او بود مقصود جانش در جهان‌‌ا ن‌‌

  • He reckoned up the friends and town; then he mentioned another town by name.
  • دوستان شهر او را بر شمرد ** بعد از آن شهری دگر را نام برد

  • He said: “When you went forth from your own town, in which town did you live mostly?”
  • گفت چون بیرون شدی از شهر خویش ** در کدامین شهر بوده ستی تو بیش‌‌

  • She mentioned the name of a certain town and from that too she passed on (to speak of another, and meanwhile) there was no change in the colour of her face or in her pulse.
  • نام شهری گفت وز آن هم در گذشت ** رنگ روی و نبض او دیگر نگشت‌‌

  • Masters and towns, one by one, she told of, and about dwelling-place and bread and salt. 165
  • خواجگان و شهرها را یک به یک ** باز گفت از جای و از نان و نمک‌‌

  • She told stories of many a town and many a house, (and still) no vein of her quivered nor did her cheek grow pale.
  • شهر شهر و خانه خانه قصه کرد ** نی رگش جنبید و نی رخ گشت زرد

  • Her pulse remained in its normal state, unimpaired, till he asked about Samarcand, the (city) sweet as candy.
  • نبض او بر حال خود بد بی‌‌گزند ** تا بپرسید از سمرقند چو قند

  • (Thereat) her pulse jumped and her face went red and pale (by turns), for she had been parted from a man of Samarcand, a goldsmith.
  • نبض جست و روی سرخ و زرد شد ** کز سمرقندی زرگر فرد شد

  • When the physician found out this secret from the sick (girl), he discerned the source of that grief and woe.
  • چون ز رنجور آن حکیم این راز یافت ** اصل آن درد و بلا را باز یافت‌‌

  • He said: “Which is his quarter in passing (through the town)?” “Sar-i Pul (Bridgehead),” she replied, “and Ghátafar street.” 170
  • گفت کوی او کدام است در گذر ** او سر پل گفت و کوی غاتفر

  • Said he: “I know what your illness is and I will at once display the arts of magic in delivering you.
  • گفت دانستم که رنجت چیست زود ** در خلاصت سحرها خواهم نمود

  • Be glad and care-free and have no fear, for I will do to you that which rain does to the meadow.
  • شاد باش و فارغ و ایمن که من ** آن کنم با تو که باران با چمن‌‌

  • I will be anxious for you, be not you anxious: I am kinder to you than a hundred fathers.
  • من غم تو می‌‌خورم تو غم مخور ** بر تو من مشفق‌‌ترم از صد پدر

  • Beware! tell not this secret to any one, not though the king should make much inquiry from you.
  • هان و هان این راز را با کس مگو ** گر چه از تو شه کند بس جستجو

  • When your heart becomes the grave of your secret, that desire of yours will be gained more quickly.” 175
  • چون که اسرارت نهان در دل شود ** آن مرادت زودتر حاصل شود

  • The Prophet said that any one who hides his inmost thought will soon attain to the object of his desire.
  • گفت پیغمبر که هر که سر نهفت ** زود گردد با مراد خویش جفت‌‌

  • When the seed is hidden in the earth, its inward secret becomes the verdure of the garden.
  • دانه چون اندر زمین پنهان شود ** سر آن سر سبزی بستان شود

  • If gold and silver were not hidden, how would they get nourishment (grow and ripen) in the mine?
  • زر و نقره گر نبودندی نهان ** پرورش کی یافتندی زیر کان‌‌

  • The promises and soothing words of the physician made the sick (girl) safe (free) from fear.
  • وعده‌‌ها و لطفهای آن حکیم ** کرد آن رنجور را ایمن ز بیم‌‌

  • There are true promises, grateful to the heart; there are false promises, fraught with disquietude. 180
  • وعده‌‌ها باشد حقیقی دل پذیر ** وعده‌‌ها باشد مجازی تاسه‌‌گیر

  • The promise of the noble is a flowing (bountiful) treasure; the promise of the unworthy becomes anguish of soul.
  • وعده‌‌ی اهل کرم گنج روان ** وعده‌‌ی نااهل شد رنج روان‌‌

  • How the saint, having discovered the (cause of) the illness, laid it before the king.
  • دریافتن آن ولی رنج را و عرض کردن رنج او را پیش پادشاه

  • Then he arose and went to see the king and acquainted him with a portion of that matter.
  • بعد از آن برخاست و عزم شاه کرد ** شاه را ز ان شمه‌‌ای آگاه کرد

  • “The (best) plan,” said he, “is that we should bring the man here for the sake of (curing) this malady.
  • گفت تدبیر آن بود کان مرد را ** حاضر آریم از پی این درد را

  • Summon the goldsmith from that far country; beguile him with gold and robes of honour.”
  • مرد زرگر را بخوان ز ان شهر دور ** با زر و خلعت بده او را غرور

  • How the king sent messengers to Samarcand to fetch the goldsmith.
  • فرستادن پادشاه رسولان به سمرقند به آوردن زرگر

  • The king sent thither one or two messengers, clever men and competent and very just. 185
  • شه فرستاد آن طرف یک دو رسول ** حاذقان و کافیان بس عدول‌‌

  • Those two Amírs came to Samarcand and went to the goldsmith, bearing the good news from the king.
  • تا سمرقند آمدند آن دو امیر ** پیش آن زرگر ز شاهنشه بشیر

  • Saying, “O fine master, perfect in knowledge, thou whose quality (of perfection in thy craft) is famous in (all) the lands,
  • کای لطیف استاد کامل معرفت ** فاش اندر شهرها از تو صفت‌‌

  • Lo, such-and-such a king hath chosen thee for (thy skill in) the goldsmith's craft, because thou art eminent.
  • نک فلان شه از برای زرگری ** اختیارت کرد زیرا مهتری‌‌

  • Look now, receive this robe of honour and gold and silver; when thou comest (to the king), thou wilt be a favourite and boon-companion.”
  • اینک این خلعت بگیر و زر و سیم ** چون بیایی خاص باشی و ندیم‌‌

  • The man saw the much wealth and the many robes: he was beguiled, he parted from his town and children. 190
  • مرد مال و خلعت بسیار دید ** غره شد از شهر و فرزندان برید

  • Blithely the man came into the road, unaware that the king had formed a design against his life.
  • اندر آمد شادمان در راه مرد ** بی‌‌خبر کان شاه قصد جانش کرد

  • He mounted an Arab horse and sped on joyously: (what really was) the price of his blood he deemed a robe of honour.
  • اسب تازی بر نشست و شاد تاخت ** خونبهای خویش را خلعت شناخت‌‌

  • O (fool), who with a hundred consents thyself with thine own foot didst enter on the journey to the fated ill!
  • ای شده اندر سفر با صد رضا ** خود به پای خویش تا سوء القضا

  • In his fancy (were dreams of) riches, power, and lordship. Said ‘Azrá‘íl (the Angel of Death), “Go (thy way). Yes, thou wilt get (them)!”
  • در خیالش ملک و عز و مهتری ** گفت عزرائیل رو آری بری‌‌

  • When the stranger arrived (and turned) from the road, the physician brought him into the presence of the king. 195
  • چون رسید از راه آن مرد غریب ** اندر آوردش به پیش شه طبیب‌‌

  • Proudly and delicately they conducted him to the king of kings, that he might burn (like a moth) on that candle of Tiráz.
  • سوی شاهنشاه بردندش به ناز ** تا بسوزد بر سر شمع طراز

  • The king beheld him, showed great regard (for him), and entrusted to him the treasure house (full) of gold.
  • شاه دید او را بسی تعظیم کرد ** مخزن زر را بدو تسلیم کرد

  • Then the physician said to him: “O mighty Sultan, give the handmaiden to this lord,
  • پس حکیمش گفت کای سلطان مه ** آن کنیزک را بدین خواجه بده‌‌

  • In order that the handmaiden may be happy in union with him, and that the water of union with him may put out the fire (of passion).”
  • تا کنیزک در وصالش خوش شود ** آب وصلش دفع آن آتش شود

  • The king bestowed on him that moon-faced one and wedded those twain (who were) craving (each other's) company. 200
  • شه بدو بخشید آن مه روی را ** جفت کرد آن هر دو صحبت جوی را

  • During the space of six months they were satisfying their desire, till the girl was wholly restored to health.
  • مدت شش ماه می‌‌راندند کام ** تا به صحت آمد آن دختر تمام‌‌

  • Thereafter he prepared for him a potion, so that when he drank it he began to dwindle away before her.
  • بعد از آن از بهر او شربت بساخت ** تا بخورد و پیش دختر می‌‌گداخت‌‌

  • When because of sickness his beauty remained not, the soul of the girl remained not in his pestilence (deadly toils).
  • چون ز رنجوری جمال او نماند ** جان دختر در وبال او نماند

  • Since he became ugly and ill-favoured and sallow-cheeked, little by little he became cold (irksome and unpleasing) in her heart.
  • چون که زشت و ناخوش و رخ زرد شد ** اندک اندک در دل او سرد شد

  • Those loves which are for the sake of a colour (outward beauty) are not love: in the end they are a disgrace. 205
  • عشقهایی کز پی رنگی بود ** عشق نبود عاقبت ننگی بود

  • Would that he too had been disgrace (deformity) altogether, so that that evil judgement might not have come to pass upon him!
  • کاش کان هم ننگ بودی یک سری ** تا نرفتی بر وی آن بد داوری‌‌

  • Blood ran from his eye (that flowed with tears) like a river; his (handsome) face became the enemy of his life.
  • خون دوید از چشم همچون جوی او ** دشمن جان وی آمد روی او