"O my two companions of the prison! As to one of you, he will pour out the wine for his lord to drink: as for the other, he will hang from the cross, and the birds will eat from off his head. (so) hath been decreed that matter whereof ye twain do enquire"...
اى دوستان زندانى من! اما يكى از شما خواجه خود را شراب مى‌دهد و اما ديگرى بردار مى‌شود و مرغان از سر او مى‌خورند. موضوعى كه شما دو تن از من نظر خواستيد قطعى و حتمى است