بخش 12 - معالجه کردن برادر دباغ دباغ را به خفیه به بوی سرگین

The youth kept driving the people away from him (the tanner), in order that those persons might not see his treatment (of the sick man).

He brought his head (close) to his ear, like one telling a secret; then he put the thing (which he had in his hand) to his (the tanner’s) nose;

For he had rubbed the dog’s dung on his palm: he had deemed it (to be) the remedy for the polluted brain.

The worm that has been born in dung will nevermore change its evil nature by means of ambergris.

Since the largesse of sprinkled light did not strike upon him (the wicked man), he is wholly body, without heart (spirit), like (empty) husks.

And if God gave him a portion of the sprinkled light, the dung hatched a bird, as is the custom in Egypt— so But not the cheap domestic fowl; nay, but the bird of know ledge and wisdom.

Because of being parted (from me) thy cheeks and face have become yellow (pale): thou art (a tree with) yellow leaves and unripened fruit,

The pot was blackened by the fire and became like smoke in colour, (but) the meat, on account of (its) hardness, has remained so raw as this!

Eight years have I boiled, thee in separation (from me): thy rawness and hypocrisy have not become less by a single mote.

Thy young grape is indurated; for through sickness the (other) young grapes are now