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2497-2506

  • کنده‌ای را لوطیی در خانه برد  ** سرنگون افکندش و در وی فشرد 
  • Juvenem imberbem paedicator quidam domum duxit, capite deorsum verso stravit et in eum trusit. [A sodomizer brought a beardless youth (catamite) into a house, threw him head-downwards, and pressed into him (in the act of sodomy).]
  • بر میانش خنجری دید آن لعین  ** پس بگفتش بر میانت چیست این 
  • The accursed wretch saw a dagger on his waist, so he said to him, “What is this on your waist?”
  • گفت آنک با من ار یک بدمنش  ** بد بیندیشد بدرم اشکمش 
  • He replied, “’Tis in order that, if any evil-minded person should think of committing evil against me, I may rip his belly.”
  • گفت لوطی حمد لله را که من  ** بد نه اندیشیده‌ام با تو به فن  2500
  • The lútí said, “God be praised that I have not thought of plotting evil against you.”
  • چون که مردی نیست خنجرها چه سود  ** چون نباشد دل ندارد سود خود 
  • When there is no manliness, of what use are daggers? When there is no heart (courage), the helmet avails not.
  • از علی میراث داری ذوالفقار  ** بازوی شیر خدا هستت بیار 
  • You may have (the sword) Dhu ’l-faqár as a heritage from ‘Alí, (but) have you the (stout) arm of the Lion of God? (If so), produce it!
  • گر فسونی یاد داری از مسیح  ** کو لب و دندان عیسی ای قبیح 
  • Though you may remember a (life-giving) incantation derived from the Messiah, where (in you) are the lips and teeth of Jesus, O abominable man?
  • کشتیی سازی ز توزیع و فتوح  ** کو یکی ملاح کشتی هم‌چو نوح 
  • You may build a ship with money collected (from your friends) or freely given, (but) where is a captain of the ship like Noah?
  • بت شکستی گیرم ابراهیم‌وار  ** کو بت تن را فدی کردن بنار  2505
  • I grant you have (formally) broken the idol, like Abraham, (but) what of devoting the idol, (which is) your body, to the fire (of self-mortification)?
  • گر دلیلت هست اندر فعل آر  ** تیغ چوبین را بدان کن ذوالفقار 
  • If you have the proof (that you are a true saint), put it into practice: by means of that (practice) make your wooden sword (sharp) as Dhu ’l-faqár.