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2004-2013

  • مزد خود بستان و ترک فصد کن  ** گر بمیرم گو برو جسم کهن 
  • “Take thy fee and leave the bleeding! If I die, let my old body go (to the grave)!”

  • گفت آخر از چه می‌ترسی ازین  ** چون نمی‌ترسی تو از شیر عرین  2005
  • “Why,” said he, “wherefore art thou afraid of this, when thou hast no fear of the lion of the jungle?

  • شیر و گرگ و خرس و هر گور و دده  ** گرد بر گرد تو شب گرد آمده 
  • Lions and wolves and bears and onagers and (other) wild animals gather around thee by night;

  • می نه آیدشان ز تو بوی بشر  ** ز انبهی عشق و وجد اندر جگر 
  • The smell of man does not come to them from thee because of the abundance of love and ecstasy in thy heart.”

  • گرگ و خرس و شیر داند عشق چیست  ** کم ز سگ باشد که از عشق او عمیست 
  • Wolf and bear and lion know what love is: he that is blind to love is inferior to a dog.

  • گر رگ عشقی نبودی کلب را  ** کی بجستی کلب کهفی قلب را 
  • If the dog had not a vein of love, how should the dog of the Cave have sought (to win) the heart (of the Seven Sleepers)?

  • هم ز جنس او به صورت چون سگان  ** گر نشد مشهور هست اندر جهان  2010
  • Moreover, in the world there is (many a one) of its kind, dog-like in appearance, though it is not celebrated (like the dog of the Cave).

  • بو نبردی تو دل اندر جنس خویش  ** کی بری تو بوی دل از گرگ و میش 
  • You have not smelt (discerned) the heart in your own kind: how should you smell the heart in wolf and sheep?

  • گر نبودی عشق هستی کی بدی  ** کی زدی نان بر تو و کی تو شدی 
  • If there had not been Love, how should there have been existence? How should bread have attached itself to you and become (assimilated to) you?

  • نان تو شد از چه ز عشق و اشتها  ** ورنه نان را کی بدی تا جان رهی 
  • The bread became you: through what? Through (your) love and appetite; otherwise, how should the bread have had any access to the (vital) spirit?