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  • 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?”

  • گفت چون قصد سرش کردم به خشم  ** طرفه در من بنگرید آن شوخ‌چشم 
  • He replied, “When I attempted (to cut off) his head in anger, the impudent fellow looked at me queerly.

  • چشم را وا کرد پهن او سوی من  ** چشم گردانید و شد هوشم ز تن  3765
  • He opened his eyes wide at me: he rolled his eyes, and consciousness vanished from my body.

  • گردش چشمش مرا لشکر نمود  ** من ندانم گفت چون پر هول بود 
  • The rolling of his eyes seemed to me an army: I cannot describe how terrible it was.