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  • پهلوان مردانه بود و بی‌حذر  ** پیش شیر آمد چو شیر مست نر 
  • The captain was manful and intrepid: he advanced, like a furious lion, to meet the lion.

  • زد به شمشیر و سرش را بر شکافت  ** زود سوی خیمه‌ی مه‌رو شتافت 
  • He smote (it) with his sword and clove its head; (then) at once he hastened (back) to the tent of the beauty.

  • چونک خود را او بدان حوری نمود  ** مردی او هم‌چنین بر پای بود 
  • Ubi sese puellae formosissimae ostendit, penis ejus itidem erectus erat. [When he showed himself to the hourí (lovely woman), his (organ of) manhood was erect in the same manner (as before).]

  • با چنان شیری به چالش گشت جفت  ** مردی او مانده بر پای و نخفت 
  • Pugna congressus erat cum tali leone: penis ejus erectus manebat nec languore jacuerat. [He joined in battle with such a lion: (yet) his manhood remained erect and did not rest (go limp).]

  • آن بت شیرین‌لقای ماه‌رو  ** در عجب در ماند از مردی او  3890
  • Illa diva, facie venusta lunae simili praedita, virilitatis ejus admiratione obstupuit. [That moon-faced idol, sweet of countenance, was amazed at his manhood.]

  • جفت شد با او به شهوت آن زمان  ** متحد گشتند حالی آن دو جان 
  • Protinus cum eo magna cupidine coivit: illae duae animae statim unitae evaserunt. [She joined with him (eagerly) in that moment with lust: those two souls immediately became united.]

  • ز اتصال این دو جان با همدگر  ** می‌رسد از غیبشان جانی دگر 
  • Through the union of these two souls with one another, there will come to them from the Unseen World another soul.

  • رو نماید از طریق زادنی  ** گر نباشد از علوقش ره‌زنی 
  • It will appear by the road of birth, if there be naught to waylay (prevent) its conception.

  • هر کجا دو کس به مهری یا به کین  ** جمع آید ثالثی زاید یقین 
  • Wherever two persons unite in a love or hate, a third will certainly be born;

  • لیک اندر غیب زاید آن صور  ** چون روی آن سو ببینی در نظر  3895
  • But those forms are born in the Unseen World: when you go thither, you will see them in (clear) view.

  • آن نتایج از قرانات تو زاد  ** هین مگرد از هر قرینی زود شاد 
  • That progeny is born of your associations: beware, do not rejoice too soon in any associate.

  • منتظر می‌باش آن میقات را  ** صدق دان الحاق ذریات را 
  • Remain in expectation of the appointed time (of meeting): recognise the truth of the (Divine) promise that the offspring shall join (their parents);

  • کز عمل زاییده‌اند و از علل  ** هر یکی را صورت و نطق و طلل 
  • For they are born of action and causes: each one hath form and speech and dwelling-place.

  • بانگشان درمی‌رسد زان خوش حجال  ** کای ز ما غافل هلا زوتر تعال 
  • Their cry is coming (to you) from those delightful bowers— “O thou who hast forgotten us, hark, come with all speed!”

  • منتظر در غیب جان مرد و زن  ** مول مولت چیست زوتر گام زن  3900
  • The soul (spiritual result) of (every) man and woman is waiting (for them) in the Unseen: why are you delaying? Step forward at once (on the way).

  • راه گم کرد او از آن صبح دروغ  ** چون مگس افتاد اندر دیگ دوغ 
  • He (the captain) lost his way and, (beguiled) by that false dawn, fell like a gnat into the pot of buttermilk.

  • پشیمان شدن آن سرلشکر از آن خیانت کی کرد و سوگند دادن او آن کنیزک را کی به خلیفه باز نگوید از آنچ رفت 
  • How that military chief repented of the sin which he had committed and adjured the girl not to tell the Caliph anything of what had happened.

  • چند روزی هم بر آن بد بعد از آن  ** شد پشیمان او از آن جرم گران 
  • He was absorbed in that (love-affair) for a while, (but) afterwards he repented of that grievous crime,

  • داد سوگندش کای خورشیدرو  ** با خلیفه زینچ شد رمزی مگو 
  • And adjured her, saying, “O thou whose face is like the sun, do not give the Caliph any hint of what has passed.”

  • چون ندید او را خلیفه مست گشت  ** پس ز بام افتاد او را نیز طشت 
  • When the Caliph saw her he became distraught (with love), and then too his secret was exposed to all.

  • دید صد چندان که وصفش کرده بود  ** کی بود خود دیده مانند شنود  3905
  • He saw (her to be) a hundred times as beautiful as he (the informer) had described her: how in sooth should seeing be like hearing?

  • وصف تصویرست بهر چشم هوش  ** صورت آن چشم دان نه زان گوش 
  • Description is a picture (drawn) for the eye of intelligence: know that the (sensible) form belongs to the eye, not to the ear.

  • کرد مردی از سخن‌دانی سال  ** حق و باطل چیست ای نیکو مقال 
  • A certain man asked an eloquent person, “What are truth and falsehood, O man of goodly discourse?”

  • گوش را بگرفت و گفت این باطلست  ** چشم حقست و یقینش حاصلست 
  • He took hold of his ear and said, “This is false: the eye is true and possesses certainty.”

  • آن به نسبت باطل آمد پیش این  ** نسبتست اغلب سخنها ای امین 
  • The former is relatively false as compared with the latter: most sayings are relative, O trusty one.

  • ز آفتاب ار کرد خفاش احتجاب  ** نیست محجوب از خیال آفتاب  3910
  • If the bat screens itself from the sun, (yet) it is not screened from the fancy (idea) of the sun.