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2009-2018

  • 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?

  • عشق نان مرده را می جان کند  ** جان که فانی بود جاویدان کند 
  • Love makes the dead bread into spirit: it makes the spirit that was perishable everlasting.

  • گفت مجنون من نمی‌ترسم ز نیش  ** صبر من از کوه سنگین هست بیش  2015
  • Majnún said, “I do not fear the lancet: my endurance is greater than the mountain formed of rock.

  • منبلم بی‌زخم ناساید تنم  ** عاشقم بر زخمها بر می‌تنم 
  • I am a vagabond: my body is not at ease without blows; I am a lover: I am always in close touch with blows.

  • لیک از لیلی وجود من پرست  ** این صدف پر از صفات آن درست 
  • But my (whole) being is full of Laylá: this shell is filled with the qualities of that Pearl.

  • ترسم ای فصاد گر فصدم کنی  ** نیش را ناگاه بر لیلی زنی 
  • I am afraid, O cupper, lest if you let my blood you suddenly inflict a wound with your lancet upon Laylá.