Muntakhab al-tawarikh 22.4.2

22.4.2

The sky, the overthrower of the rhinoceros, the conqueror of the lion, if, in play, like the wolf it brings against the life of Rustum a strong move like “pilband.”
The wolf of my patience casts off from him the waterproof like a lion if the elephant of this coerulean castle has made me over to his charge like a rhinoceros.
The lion of the sky, like the elephant in colour, a wolf by nature, takes and tears to pieces the armour of my patience like the hide of the rhinoceros.
Last night when the sun of the sky became elephant coloured in the hide of the rhinoceros, countless Josephs appeared from the wolves of the heaven.
My life is in the hands of the lion, and under the foot of the rhinoceros of pain, until from the elephant bodied sky the tail of the wolf became evident.
The claw of the lion and the horn of the rhinoceros, the tears of the elephant and the hair of the wolf.
Although these four are of use in making the amulet of heart's attachment,
Of what use are the special properties of the lion and rhinoceros and the wolf and the elephant, when that silvery cheeked one demands from me gold more than the weight of an elephant.
Since I do not possess the ferocity of the rhinoceros, the heart of the lion, and the breath of the wolf, I will go to meet my beloved with an elephant load of sorrow.
Hasan Dehlavi also says,
.iil^ tS ol— jia Uj\j ok— ^ jyU.1
Alas ! that the “ pilband ” of thy love cannot easily be overcome.