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  • Death's throat is exhausted with shouting: his drum is split with the astounding blows (with which it has been beaten). 775
  • این گلوی مرگ از نعره گرفت  ** طبل او بشکافت از ضرب شگفت 
  • (But) you enmeshed yourself in trivialities: (only) now have you apprehended the mystery of dying.
  • در دقایق خویش را در بافتی  ** رمز مردن این زمان در یافتی 
  • Comparison of (the behaviour of) the heedless man who wastes his life and (only) begins to repent and ask pardon (of God) when he lies in extreme distress on his death-bed to the yearly mourning of the Shí‘ites of Aleppo at the Antioch Gate (of the city) during the ‘Áshúrá; and how a poet, who was a stranger, arrived (there) on his journey and asked what was the cause of these shrieks of mourning.
  • تشبیه مغفلی کی عمر ضایع کند و وقت مرگ در آن تنگاتنگ توبه و استغفار کردن گیرد به تعزیت داشتن شیعه‌ی اهل حلب هر سالی در ایام عاشورا به دروازه‌ی انطاکیه و رسیدن غریب شاعر از سفر و پرسیدن کی این غریو چه تعزیه است 
  • On the Day of ‘Áshúrá all the people of Aleppo gather at the Antioch Gate till nightfall,
  • روز عاشورا همه اهل حلب  ** باب انطاکیه اندر تا به شب 
  • Men and women, a great multitude, and keep up a constant lamentation for the (Holy) Family.
  • گرد آید مرد و زن جمعی عظیم  ** ماتم آن خاندان دارد مقیم 
  • During the ‘Áshúrá the Shí‘ites wail and lament with tears and sobs on account of Karbalá.
  • ناله و نوحه کنند اندر بکا  ** شیعه عاشورا برای کربلا 
  • They recount the oppressions and tribulations which the (Holy) Family suffered at the hands of Yazíd and Shimr. 780
  • بشمرند آن ظلمها و امتحان  ** کز یزید و شمر دید آن خاندان 
  • They utter shrieks mingled with cries of woe and grief: the whole plain and desert is filled (with their cries).
  • نعره‌هاشان می‌رود در ویل و وشت  ** پر همی‌گردد همه صحرا و دشت 
  • A stranger, (who was) a poet, arrived from the road on the Day of ‘Áshúrá and heard that lamentation.
  • یک غریبی شاعری از راه رسید  ** روز عاشورا و آن افغان شنید 
  • He left the city and resolved (to go) in that direction: he set out to investigate (the cause of) those shrill cries.
  • شهر را بگذاشت و آن سوی رای کرد  ** قصد جست و جوی آن هیهای کرد 
  • He went along, asking many questions in his search—“What is this sorrow? Whose death has occasioned this mourning?
  • پرس پرسان می‌شد اندر افتقاد  ** چیست این غم بر که این ماتم فتاد