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4041-4050

  • خالی از خود بود و پر از عشق دوست  ** پس ز کوزه آن تلابد که دروست 
  • She was empty of self and filled with love for her friend (Joseph), and (as the proverb says), “A pot drips what is in it.”

  • خنده بوی زعفران وصل داد  ** گریه بوهای پیاز آن بعاد 
  • The scent of the saffron of union produces (happy) laughter; the smell of the onion of absence (produces) tears.

  • هر یکی را هست در دل صد مراد  ** این نباشد مذهب عشق و وداد 
  • Every (other) one has in his heart a hundred objects of desire, (but) this is not the way of love and fondness.

  • یار آمد عشق را روز آفتاب  ** آفتاب آن روی را هم‌چون نقاب 
  • Love's sun in the day-time is the (Face of the) Beloved: the sun is as a veil over that Face.

  • آنک نشناسد نقاب از روی یار  ** عابد الشمس است دست از وی بدار  4045
  • He that does not know (distinguish) the veil from the Face of the Beloved is a sun-worshipper: keep thy hand off (keep thyself aloof) from him.

  • روز او و روزی عاشق هم او  ** دل همو دلسوزی عاشق هم او 
  • He is both the lover's day and daily bread, He is both the lover's heart and heart-burning.

  • ماهیان را نقد شد از عین آب  ** نان و آب و جامه و دارو و خواب 
  • (God's) fishes receive directly from the Essence of the Water their bread and water and clothes and drugs and sleep.

  • هم‌چو طفلست او ز پستان شیرگیر  ** او نداند در دو عالم غیر شیر 
  • He (the lover) is like a child getting milk from the breast: he knows nothing in the two worlds except the milk.

  • طفل داند هم نداند شیر را  ** راه نبود این طرف تدبیر را 
  • The child knows the milk and yet he does not know it: (intellectual) consideration has no means of entrance here.

  • گیج کرد این گردنامه روح را  ** تا بیابد فاتح و مفتوح را  4050
  • This circular (issued by Love) made the spirit crazy to find (both) the Opener and that which is opened (by Him).