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1160-1169

  • هر طرف که ساحری بد نامدار ** کرد پران سوی او ده پیک کار 1160
  • In whatsoever region there was a renowned magician, he set flying towards him ten active couriers.
  • دو جوان بودند ساحر مشتهر ** سحر ایشان در دل مه مستمر
  • There were two youths, famous magicians: their magic penetrated into the heart of the moon.
  • شیر دوشیده ز مه فاش آشکار ** در سفرها رفته بر خمی سوار
  • They milked the moon publicly and openly; in their journeys they went mounted on a wine-jar.
  • شکل کرباسی نموده ماهتاب ** آن بپیموده فروشیده شتاب
  • They caused the moonshine to appear like a piece of linen: they measured and sold it speedily,
  • سیم برده مشتری آگه شده ** دست از حسرت به رخها بر زده
  • And took the silver away: the purchaser, on becoming aware (of the fraud), would smite his hand upon his cheeks in grief.
  • صد هزاران همچنین در جادوی ** بوده منشی و نبوده چون روی 1165
  • They were the inventors of a hundred thousand such (tricks) in sorcery, and were not (following others) like the rhyme-letter.
  • چون بدیشان آمد آن پیغام شاه ** کز شما شاهست اکنون چاره‌خواه
  • When the King's message reached them, (to this effect): “The king is now desiring help from you,
  • از پی آنک دو درویش آمدند ** بر شه و بر قصر او موکب زدند
  • Because two dervishes have come and marched in force against the King and his palace.
  • نیست با ایشان بغیر یک عصا ** که همی‌گردد به امرش اژدها
  • They have naught with them except one rod, which becomes a dragon at his (Moses') command.
  • شاه و لشکر جمله بیچاره شدند ** زین دو کس جمله به افغان آمدند
  • The King and the whole army are helpless: all have been brought to lamentation by these two persons.