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5
1040-1049

  • Magician-like, it hastily measures out by the ell five hundred ells of linen from the light of the moonbeams, 1040
  • گز کند کرباس پانصد گز شتاب  ** ساحرانه او ز نور ماهتاب 
  • (Yet), when it takes the money, (which is) thy life, O slave, the money is gone, there is no linen, and thy purse is empty.
  • چون ستد او سیم عمرت ای رهی  ** سیم شد کرباس نی کیسه تهی 
  • Thou must recite Say, I take refuge, crying, “O (Thou who art) One, come, save me from the witches and from (their) knots.
  • قل اعوذت خواند باید کای احد  ** هین ز نفاثات افغان وز عقد 
  • These sorceresses are blowing on the knots: help, O Thou whose help is besought against (the world's) victory and checkmate.”
  • می‌دمند اندر گره آن ساحرات  ** الغیاث المستغاث از برد و مات 
  • But invoke (Him) with the tongue of deeds also, for the tongue of words is weak, O honourable man.
  • لیک بر خوان از زبان فعل نیز  ** که زبان قول سستست ای عزیز 
  • In the world thou hast three fellow-travellers: one is faithful and these two (others) are treacherous. 1045
  • در زمانه مر ترا سه همره‌اند  ** آن یکی وافی و این دو غدرمند 
  • One (of the latter) is friends and the other is goods and chattels; and the third (fellow-traveller) is faithful, and that one is excellence in deeds.
  • آن یکی یاران و دیگر رخت و مال  ** وآن سوم وافیست و آن حسن الفعال 
  • (Thy) wealth will not come with thee out of thy palaces; (thy) friend will come, but he will come (only) as far as thy grave.
  • مال ناید با تو بیرون از قصور  ** یار آید لیک آید تا به گور 
  • When thy day of doom comes to meet thee, thy friend will say (to himself) in the language appropriate to his sentiments,
  • چون ترا روز اجل آید به پیش  ** یار گوید از زبان حال خویش 
  • “(I have come) as far as here: I accompany thee no farther, I will stand a (little) while at thy grave.”
  • تا بدینجا بیش همره نیستم  ** بر سر گورت زمانی بیستم