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1223-1247

  • Her face was in folds like the surface of a traveller's food-wallet, but there remained in her the passionate desire for a husband.
  • چون سر سفره رخ او توی توی  ** لیک در وی بود مانده عشق شوی 
  • Her teeth had dropped out and her hair had become (white) as milk: her figure was (bent) like a bow, and every sense in her was decayed.
  • ریخت دندانهاش و مو چون شیر شد  ** قد کمان و هر حسش تغییر شد 
  • Her passion for a husband and her lust and desire were (there) in full (force): the passion for snaring (was there), though the trap had fallen to pieces. 1225
  • عشق شوی و شهوت و حرصش تمام  ** عشق صید و پاره‌پاره گشته دام 
  • (She was like) a cock that crows at the wrong time, a road that leads nowhere, a big fire beneath an empty kettle;
  • مرغ بی‌هنگام و راه بی‌رهی  ** آتشی پر در بن دیگ تهی 
  • (Like one who is) exceedingly fond of the race-course, but has no horse and no means of running; (or) exceedingly fond of piping, but having neither lip nor pipe.
  • عاشق میدان و اسپ و پای نی  ** عاشق زمر و لب و سرنای نی 
  • May (even) Jews have no (such) cupidity in (their) old age! Oh, (how) miserable is he on whom God hath bestowed this cupidity!
  • حرص در پیری جهودان را مباد  ** ای شقیی که خداش این حرص داد 
  • A dog's teeth drop out when it grows old: it leaves people (alone) and takes to (eating) dung;
  • ریخت دندانهای سگ چون پیر شد  ** ترک مردم کرد و سرگین‌گیر شد 
  • (But) look at these sexagenarian dogs! Their dog-teeth get sharper at every moment. 1230
  • این سگان شصت ساله را نگر  ** هر دمی دندان سگشان تیزتر 
  • The hairs drop from the fur of an old dog; (but) see these old (human) dogs clad in satin!
  • پیر سگ را ریخت پشم از پوستین  ** این سگان پیر اطلس‌پوش بین 
  • See how their passionate desire and greed for women and gold, like the progeny of dogs, is increasing continually!
  • عشقشان و حرصشان در فرج و زر  ** دم به دم چون نسل سگ بین بیشتر 
  • Such a life as this, which is Hell's stock-in-trade, is a shambles for the butchers (executioners) of (the Divine) Wrath;
  • این چنین عمری که مایه‌ی دوزخ است  ** مر قصابان غضب را مسلخ است 
  • (Yet) when people say to him, “May your life be long!” he is delighted and opens his mouth in laughter.
  • چون بگویندش که عمر تو دراز  ** می‌شود دلخوش دهانش از خنده باز 
  • He thinks a curse like this is a benediction: he never uncloses his (inward) eye or raises his head once (from the slumber of heedlessness). 1235
  • این چنین نفرین دعا پندارد او  ** چشم نگشاید سری بر نارد او 
  • If he had seen (even as much as) a hair's tip of the future state, he would have said to him (who wished him long life), “May thy life be like this!”
  • گر بدیدی یک سر موی از معاد  ** اوش گفتی این چنین عمر تو باد 
  • Story of the dervish who blessed a man of Gílán, saying, “May God bring thee back in safety to thy home and household!”
  • داستان آن درویش کی آن گیلانی را دعا کرد کی خدا ترا به سلامت به خان و مان باز رساناد 
  • One day a sturdy beggar, (who was) very fond of bread and carried a basket (about with him), accosted a Khwája of Gílán.
  • گفت یک روزی به خواجه‌ی گیلیی  ** نان پرستی نر گدا زنبیلیی 
  • On receiving some bread from him, he cried, “O Thou (God) whose help is besought, bring him back happy to his home and household!”
  • چون ستد زو نان بگفت ای مستعان  ** خوش به خان و مان خود بازش رسان 
  • He (the Khwája) said, “If the house is the one that I have seen (recently), may God bring thee there, O squalid wretch!”
  • گفت خان ار آنست که من دیده‌ام  ** حق ترا آنجا رساند ای دژم 
  • Worthless folk humiliate every story-teller: if his words are lofty, they make them low; 1240
  • هر محدث را خسان باذل کنند  ** حرفش ار عالی بود نازل کنند 
  • For the tale is (lofty or low) in proportion to (the understanding of) the hearer: the tailor cuts the coat according to the Khwája's (customer's) figure.
  • زانک قدر مستمع آید نبا  ** بر قد خواجه برد درزی قبا 
  • [Description of the old woman.]
  • صفت آن عجوز 
  • Since the audience is not free from such reproach, there is no means of avoiding low and undignified talk.
  • چونک مجلس بی چنین پیغاره نیست  ** از حدیث پست نازل چاره نیست 
  • Hark, redeem this topic (of discourse) from pawn: return to the tale of the old woman.
  • واستان هین این سخن را از گرو  ** سوی افسانه‌ی عجوزه باز رو 
  • When he (any one) has become advanced in years and is not a man (adept) in this Way, bestow the name of “aged crone” upon him.
  • چون مسن گشت و درین ره نیست مرد  ** تو بنه نامش عجوز سال‌خورد 
  • He has neither (any spiritual) capital and basis, nor is he capable of receiving (such a) stock-in-trade. 1245
  • نه مرورا راس مال و پایه‌ای  ** نه پذیرای قبول مایه‌ای 
  • He is neither a giver nor a receiver of (spiritual) delight; in him there is neither reality nor (the power of) absorbing reality.
  • نه دهنده نی پذیرنده‌ی خوشی  ** نه درو معنی و نه معنی‌کشی 
  • (He has) neither tongue nor ear nor understanding and insight nor consciousness nor unconsciousness nor reflections;
  • نه زبان نه گوش نه عقل و بصر  ** نه هش و نه بیهشی و نه فکر