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2600-2624

  • I am reminded of the story of the people of Sabá—how their (balmy) zephyr (sabá) was turned into pestilence (wabá) by the words of the foolish. 2600
  • یادم آمد قصه‌ی اهل سبا ** کز دم احمق صباشان شد وبا
  • That (kingdom of) Sabá resembles the great big city (which) you may hear of from children in (their) tales.
  • آن سبا ماند به شهر بس کلان ** در فسانه بشنوی از کودکان
  • The children relate tales, (but) in their tales there is enfolded many a mystery and (moral) lesson.
  • کودکان افسانه‌ها می‌آورند ** درج در افسانه‌شان بس سر و پند
  • (Though) in (their) tales they say (many) ridiculous things, (yet) in all ruined places do thou ever seek the treasure.
  • هزلها گویند در افسانه‌ها ** گنج می‌جو در همه ویرانه‌ها
  • (Once) there was a city very huge and great, but its size was the size of a saucer, no more (than that).
  • بود شهری بس عظیم و مه ولی ** قدر او قدر سکره بیش نی
  • (It was) very huge and very broad and very long, ever so big, as big as an onion. 2605
  • بس عظیم و بس فراخ و بس دراز ** سخت زفت زفت اندازه‌ی پیاز
  • The people of ten cities were assembled within it, but the whole (amounted to) three fellows with unwashed (dirty) faces.
  • مردم ده شهر مجموع اندرو ** لیک جمله سه تن ناشسته‌رو
  • Within it there were numberless people and folk, but the whole of them (amounted to) three beggarly fools.
  • اندرو خلق و خلایق بی‌شمار ** لیک آن جمله سه خام پخته‌خوار
  • The soul that has not made haste towards the Beloved— (even) if it is thousands, (yet) it is (only) half a body.
  • جان ناکرده به جانان تاختن ** گر هزارانست باشد نیم تن
  • One (of the three) was very far-sighted and blind-eyed— blind to Solomon and seeing the leg of the ant;
  • آن یکی بس دور بین و دیده‌کور ** از سلیمان کور و دیده پای مور
  • And the second was very sharp of hearing and extremely deaf—a treasure in which there is not a barleycorn's weight of gold; 2610
  • و آن دگر بس تیزگوش و سخت کر ** گنج و در وی نیست یک جو سنگ زر
  • And the other (the third) was naked and bare, pudendo patefacto, but the skirts of his raiment were long. [And the other (the third) was naked and bare, (the private parts of his) body exposed, but the skirts of his raiment were long.]
  • وآن دگر عور و برهنه لاشه‌باز ** لیک دامنهای جامه‌ی او دراز
  • The blind man said, “Look, an army is approaching: I see what people they are and how many.”
  • گفت کور اینک سپاهی می‌رسند ** من همی‌بینم که چه قومند و چند
  • The deaf man said, “Yes; I heard their voices (and know) what they are saying openly and secretly.”
  • گفت کر آری شنودم بانگشان ** که چه می‌گویند پیدا و نهان
  • The naked man said, “I am afraid they will cut off (something) from the length of my skirt.”
  • آن برهنه گفت ترسان زین منم ** که ببرند از درازی دامنم
  • The blind man said, “Look, they have come near! Arise and let us flee before (we suffer) blows and chains.” 2615
  • کور گفت اینک به نزدیک آمدند ** خیز بگریزیم پیش از زخم و بند
  • “Yes,” says the deaf man, “the noise is getting nearer. Come on, my friends!”
  • کر همی‌گوید که آری مشغله ** می‌شود نزدیکتر یاران هله
  • The naked man said, “Alas, from covetousness they will cut off my skirt, and I am unprotected.”
  • آن برهنه گفت آوه دامنم ** از طمع برند و من ناآمنم
  • They (the three) left the city and came forth and in their flight entered a village.
  • شهر را هشتند و بیرون آمدند ** در هزیمت در دهی اندر شدند
  • In that village they found a fat fowl, but not a mite of flesh on it: (’twas) abject—
  • اندر آن ده مرغ فربه یافتند ** لیک ذره‌ی گوشت بر وی نه نژند
  • A dried-up dead fowl, and its bones through being pecked at by crows had become bare like threads. 2620
  • مرغ مرده‌ی خشک وز زخم کلاغ ** استخوانها زار گشته چون پناغ
  • They were eating thereof as a lion (eats) of his prey: each of them (became) surfeited, like an elephant, with eating it.
  • زان همی‌خوردند چون از صید شیر ** هر یکی از خوردنش چون پیل سیر
  • All the three ate thereof and grew exceedingly fat: they became like three very great and big elephants,
  • هر سه زان خوردند و بس فربه شدند ** چون سه پیل بس بزرگ و مه شدند
  • In such wise that each young man, because of fatness, was too stout to be contained in the world.
  • آنچنان کز فربهی هر یک جوان ** در نگنجیدی ز زفتی در جهان
  • Notwithstanding such bigness and seven stout limbs, they sprang forth through a chink in the door and departed.
  • با چنین گبزی و هفت اندام زفت ** از شکاف در برون جستند و رفت