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2535-2559

  • باز امروز این چنین زرد و ترش  ** دست بر لب می‌زند کای شه خمش  2535
  • (How strange, then, that) to-day, on the contrary, he (Dalqak), pale and grim like this, is laying his hand on his lips as though to say, “Hush, O King!”
  • وهم در وهم و خیال اندر خیال  ** شاه را تا خود چه آید از نکال 
  • Foreboding on foreboding and fancy on fancy (occurred) to the king (as he wondered) what chastisement would come (upon him),
  • که دل شه با غم و پرهیز بود  ** زانک خوارمشاه بس خون‌ریز بود 
  • For the king's heart was anxious and alarmed because the Khwárizmsháh was very bloodthirsty,
  • بس شهان آن طرف را کشته بود  ** یا به حیله یا به سطوت آن عنود 
  • And that perverse (tyrant) had killed many kings in that region either by craft or violence.
  • این شه ترمد ازو در وهم بود  ** وز فن دلقک خود آن وهمش فزود 
  • This King of Tirmid was apprehensive of (being attacked by) him, and his apprehension was increased by the artifice of Dalqak.
  • گفت زوتر بازگو تا حال چیست  ** این چنین آشوب و شور تو ز کیست  2540
  • He said, “Be quick! Tell (me) what is the matter. Who is the cause of your being so perturbed and agitated?”
  • گفت من در ده شنیدم آنک شاه  ** زد منادی بر سر هر شاه‌راه 
  • He replied, “I heard in the country that the king had proclaimed on every highway
  • که کسی خواهم که تازد در سه روز  ** تا سمرقند و دهم او را کنوز 
  • That he required some one to run to Samarcand in three days and would bestow (his) treasures (on the courier).
  • من شتابیدم بر تو بهر آن  ** تا بگویم که ندارم آن توان 
  • I hurried to you in order to say that I am not able to do it.
  • این چنین چستی نیاید از چو من  ** باری این اومید را بر من متن 
  • For one like me such agility is impossible: at all events do not expect this of me.”
  • گفت شه لعنت برین زودیت باد  ** که دو صد تشویش در شهر اوفتاد  2545
  • “Curse your hurry!” cried the king; “for (in consequence of it) a hundred confusions have arisen in the city.
  • از برای این قدر خام‌ریش  ** آتش افکندی درین مرج و حشیش 
  • (Is it only) for this trifle, O half-baked fool, (that) you have set fire to this meadow and hay?”
  • هم‌چو این خامان با طبل و علم  ** که الاقانیم در فقر و عدم 
  • (This is) like (the behaviour of) these raw (ignorant) persons (who come) with drum and banner, saying, “We are couriers (speeding) in (the path of spiritual) poverty and non-existence,”
  • لاف شیخی در جهان انداخته  ** خویشتن را بایزیدی ساخته 
  • (Who) boast far and wide of being Shaykhs and make out that they have (attained to) the rank of Báyazíd,
  • هم ز خود سالک شده واصل شده  ** محفلی واکرده در دعوی‌کده 
  • And, having (as they claim) travelled away from themselves and become united (with God), open a conventicle (for disciples) in the abode of pretension.
  • خانه‌ی داماد پرآشوب و شر  ** قوم دختر را نبوده زین خبر  2550
  • (While) the bridegroom's house is full of turmoil and trouble, the girl's family know nothing about it.
  • ولوله که کار نیمی راست شد  ** شرطهایی که ز سوی ماست شد 
  • (The bridegroom's people raise) an outcry, saying, “Half the affair is concluded: the conditions that are (necessary) on our side have been fulfilled.
  • خانه‌ها را روفتیم آراستیم  ** زین هوس سرمست و خوش برخاستیم 
  • We have swept and garnished the rooms and have risen up (from our labour) intoxicated and glad with this ardent desire (to receive the bride).”
  • زان طرف آمد یکی پیغام نی  ** مرغی آمد این طرف زان بام نی 
  • Has any message come from over there? “No.” Has any bird come hither from that roof? “No.”
  • زین رسالات مزید اندر مزید  ** یک جوابی زان حوالیتان رسید 
  • After (all) these missives (which ye have sent) one on the top of another, has any answer reached you from that neighbourhood?
  • نی ولیکن یار ما زین آگهست  ** زانک از دل سوی دل لا بد رهست  2555
  • “No; but our Friend is acquainted with this (matter), because inevitably there is a way from heart to heart.”
  • پس از آن یاری که اومید شماست  ** از جواب نامه ره خالی چراست 
  • Why, then, is the way devoid of (any) answer to (your) letter from the Friend who is (the object of) your hope?
  • صد نشانست از سرار و از جهار  ** لیک بس کن پرده زین در بر مدار 
  • There are a hundred signs (of response), (both) secret and manifest; but desist, do not lift the curtain from this door.
  • باز رو تا قصه‌ی آن دلق گول  ** که بلا بر خویش آورد از فضول 
  • Return to the story of that foolish Dalqak who brought tribulation on himself by his silly meddling.
  • پس وزیرش گفت ای حق را ستن  ** بشنو از بنده‌ی کمینه یک سخن 
  • Afterwards the vizier said to him (the king), “O Pillar of the Truth, hear a word from thy humble slave.