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  • دست‌بسته گبر و هم‌چون گربه‌ای  ** خسته کرده حلق او بی‌حربه‌ای 
  • The pinioned infidel, (fierce) as a cat, had wounded his throat without (using) a lance.

  • نیم کشتش کرده با دندان اسیر  ** ریش او پر خون ز حلق آن فقیر  3755
  • The prisoner had half-killed him with his teeth: his beard was soaked in blood from the throat of the dervish.

  • هم‌چو تو کز دست نفس بسته دست  ** هم‌چو آن صوفی شدی بی‌خویش و پست 
  • (This is) like you, who under the violence of your pinioned fleshly soul have become as senseless and abject as that Súfí.

  • ای شده عاجز ز تلی کیش تو  ** صد هزاران کوهها در پیش تو 
  • O you whose religion is incapable of (climbing) a single hillock, there are a hundred thousand mountains in front of you.

  • زین قدر خرپشته مردی از شکوه  ** چون روی بر عقبه‌های هم‌چو کوه 
  • You are dead with fear of a ridge of this (small) size: how will you climb up precipices (big) as a mountain?

  • غازیان کشتند کافر را بتیغ  ** هم در آن ساعت ز حمیت بی‌دریغ 
  • The warriors, (moved) by (religious) zeal, at that very instant ruthlessly put the infidel to the sword.

  • بر رخ صوفی زدند آب و گلاب  ** تا به هوش آید ز بی‌خویشی و خواب  3760
  • They sprinkled water and rose-water on the face of the Súfí, that he might recover from his unconsciousness and the sleep (of his senses).

  • چون به خویش آمد بدید آن قوم را  ** پس بپرسیدند چون بد ماجرا 
  • When he came to himself, he saw the party (of soldiers), and they asked him how it had happened,

  • الله الله این چه حالست ای عزیز  ** این چنین بی‌هوش گشتی از چه چیز 
  • (Saying), “God! God! what is the matter, O worshipful one? By what thing wert thou made so senseless?

  • از اسیر نیم‌کشت بسته‌دست  ** این چنین بی‌هوش افتادی و پست 
  • Was a half-killed pinioned infidel the cause of thy falling into such a senseless and abject plight?”