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4445-4469

  • For if, like the (heavily-laden) ass, thou hast no way of attaining to freedom, thy movement, like that of the bucket, can only be (down) into the well. 4445
  • ور در آزادیت چون خر راه نیست  ** هم‌چو دلوت سیر جز در چاه نیست 
  • Go, take leave of my spirit for awhile: go, seek another companion instead of me.
  • مدتی رو ترک جان من بگو  ** رو حریف دیگری جز من بجو 
  • My turn is finished: set me free, espouse another, (beguile) some one else.
  • نوبت من شد مرا آزاد کن  ** دیگری را غیر من داماد کن 
  • O body with thy hundred (worldly) concerns, bid me farewell: thou hast taken my life: (now) seek another (victim).
  • ای تن صدکاره ترک من بگو  ** عمر من بردی کسی دیگر بجو 
  • How a cadi was infatuated with the wife of Júhí and remained (hidden) in a chest, and how the cadi's deputy purchased the chest; and how next year (when) Júhí's wife came again, hoping to play the same trick (which had succeeded) last year, the cadi said (to her), “Set me free and seek some one else”; and so on to the end of the story.
  • مفتون شدن قاضی بر زن جوحی و در صندوق ماندن و نایب قاضی صندوق را خریدن باز سال دوم آمدن زن جوحی بر امید بازی پارینه و گفتن قاضی کی مرا آزاد کن و کسی دیگر را بجوی الی آخر القصه 
  • Every year, on account of poverty, Júhí would artfully turn to his wife and say, “O sweetheart,
  • جوحی هر سالی ز درویشی به فن  ** رو بزن کردی کای دلخواه زن 
  • Since thou hast the weapons, go, catch some game in order that we may get milk (profit) from thy prey. 4450
  • چون سلاحت هست رو صیدی بگیر  ** تا بدوشانیم از صید تو شیر 
  • Wherefore has God given thee the bow of thine eyebrow, the arrow of thy amorous glance, and the snare of thy craftiness? For hunting.
  • قوس ابرو تیر غمزه دام کید  ** بهر چه دادت خدا از بهر صید 
  • Go, lay the snare for a big bird: show the bait, but do not let him eat it.
  • رو پی مرغی شگرفی دام نه  ** دانه بنما لیک در خوردش مده 
  • Show him his wish, but disappoint him: how can he eat the bait when he is imprisoned in the snare?”
  • کام بنما و کن او را تلخ‌کام  ** کی خورد دانه چو شد در حبس دام 
  • His wife went to the cadi to complain, saying, “I appeal (to thee) for help against my faithless husband.”
  • شد زن او نزد قاضی در گله  ** که مرا افغان ز شوی ده‌دله 
  • (To) cut the tale short, the cadi fell a prey to the (pleading) words and beauty of the fair woman. 4455
  • قصه کوته کن که قاضی شد شکار  ** از مقال و از جمال آن نگار 
  • He said, “There is such a noise in the court of justice (that) I cannot understand this complaint;
  • گفت اندر محکمه‌ست این غلغله  ** من نتوانم فهم کردن این گله 
  • (But) if you will come to my private house, O cypress-slender one, and describe to me the injurious behaviour of your husband”—
  • گر به خلوت آیی ای سرو سهی  ** از ستم‌کاری شو شرحم دهی 
  • “In thy house,” she replied, “there will be a (constant) coming and going of every sort of people, good and bad, for the purpose of making complaints.”
  • گفت خانه‌ی تو ز هر نیک و بدی  ** باشد از بهر گله آمد شدی 
  • (If) the house of the head be wholly filled with a mad passion, the breast will be full of anxiety and commotion.
  • خانه‌ی سر جمله پر سودا بود  ** صدر پر وسواس و پر غوغا بود 
  • The rest of the (bodily) members are undisturbed by thinking, while those breasts are consumed by thoughts that return. 4460
  • باقی اعضا ز فکر آسوده‌اند  ** وآن صدور از صادران فرسوده‌اند 
  • Take refuge in the autumn gale of fear of God: let last year's flowers be shed;
  • در خزان و باد خوف حق گریز  ** آن شقایق‌های پارین را بریز 
  • (For) these flowers prevent the new buds (from blossoming), and it is (only) for the sake of their growth that the tree of the heart exists.
  • این شقایق منع نو اشکوفه‌هاست  ** که درخت دل برای آن نماست 
  • Put thyself to sleep (and escape) from this (vain) thinking: (then) lift up thy head from sleep into (spiritual) wakefulness.
  • خویش را در خواب کن زین افتکار  ** سر ز زیر خواب در یقظت بر آر 
  • Like the Men of the Cave (the Seven Sleepers), pass quickly, O Khwája, into (the state of those who are) awake, though thou wouldst deem them asleep.
  • هم‌چو آن اصحاب کهف ای خواجه زود  ** رو به ایقاظا که تحسبهم رقود 
  • “O adorable one,” said the cadi, “what can be contrived?” She answered, “This (thy) handmaid's house is quite empty. 4465
  • گفت قاضی ای صنم معمول چیست  ** گفت خانه‌ی این کنیزک بس تهیست 
  • The enemy has gone into the country, and the caretaker is not there either: it is a very good place for meeting in private.
  • خصم در ده رفت و حارس نیز نیست  ** بهر خلوت سخت نیکو مسکنیست 
  • Come there to-night if possible: what one does by night is (done) without (the intention of) making (people) hear of it or see it;
  • امشب ار امکان بود آنجا بیا  ** کار شب بی سمعه است و بی‌ریا 
  • (At that time) all the spies are intoxicated with the wine of sleep: all have been beheaded (and left as though lifeless) by the negro, Night.”
  • جمله جاسوسان ز خمر خواب مست  ** زنگی شب جمله را گردن زدست 
  • The sugar-lipped (damsel) chanted wondrous spells over the cadi—and then with what (bewitching) lips!
  • خواند بر قاضی فسون‌های عجب  ** آن شکرلب وانگهانی از چه لب