The Saint Reveals the Cause of Her Illness
From Rumi’s Masnavi (مثنوی معنوی), Book 1, section 8 of 171: How the saint, having discovered the (cause of) the illness, laid it before the king (دریافتن آن ولی رنج را و عرض کردن رنج او را پیش پادشاه). Below, each of its 6 couplets is given in Persian, followed by R. A. Nicholson’s English translation.
How the saint, having discovered the (cause of) the illness, laid it before the king دریافتن آن ولی رنج را و عرض کردن رنج او را پیش پادشاه
بعد از آن برخاست و عزم شاه کرد
شاه را ز ان شمه‌‌ای آگاه کرد
Then he arose and went to see the king and acquainted him with a portion of that matter.
گفت تدبیر آن بود کان مرد را
حاضر آریم از پی این درد را
“The (best) plan,” said he, “is that we should bring the man here for the sake of (curing) this malady.
مرد زرگر را بخوان ز ان شهر دور
با زر و خلعت بده او را غرور
Summon the goldsmith from that far country; beguile him with gold and robes of honour.”
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