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224-233

  • تسخر و طنزی بود آن یا جنون ** پاک حق عما یقول الظالمون
  • (Otherwise), it would be a ridicule and mockery (so to use them), or madness: God is clear of (untouched by) what the unrighteous say.
  • من همی دانستمت پیش از وصال ** که نکورویی ولیکن بدخصال 225
  • I knew, before (our meeting), that thou art good-looking but evil-natured;
  • من همی دانستمت پیش از لقا ** کز ستیزه راسخی اندر شقا
  • I knew, before coming face to face (with thee), that by reason of contumacy thou art set fast in damnation.
  • چونک چشمم سرخ باشد در غمش ** دانمش زان درد گر کم بینمش
  • When my eye is red in ophthalmia, I know it (the redness) is from the disease, (even) if I do not see it (the redness).
  • تو مرا چون بره دیدی بی شبان ** تو گمان بردی ندارم پاسبان
  • Thou deemedst me as a lamb without the shepherd, thou thoughtest that I have none keeping watch (over me).
  • عاشقان از درد زان نالیده‌اند ** که نظر ناجایگه مالیده‌اند
  • The cause why lovers have moaned in grief is that they have rubbed their eyes malapropos.
  • بی‌شبان دانسته‌اند آن ظبی را ** رایگان دانسته‌اند آن سبی را 230
  • They have regarded that Gazelle as being shepherdless, they have regarded that Captive as (one who may be taken) cost-free,
  • تا ز غمزه تیر آمد بر جگر ** که منم حارس گزافه کم نگر
  • Till (suddenly) an arrow from the glance (of Divine jealousy) comes (descends) upon the heart, (as though) to say, ‘I am the Keeper: do not look wantonly.
  • کی کم از بره کم از بزغاله‌ام ** که نباشد حارس از دنباله‌ام
  • How am I meaner than a lamb, meaner than a kid, that there should not be a keeper behind me?
  • حارسی دارم که ملکش می‌سزد ** داند او بادی که آن بر من وزد
  • I have a Keeper whom it beseems to hold dominion: He knoweth the wind that blows upon me.