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1357-1381

  • گر چه صد چون من ندارد تاب بحر ** لیک می‏نشکیبم از غرقاب بحر
  • Though (one equal to) a hundred like me would not have the strength to bear the Sea, yet I cannot refrain from the drowning waters of the Sea.

  • جان و عقل من فدای بحر باد ** خونبهای عقل و جان این بحر داد
  • May my soul and mind be a sacrifice to the Sea: this Sea has paid the blood-price of mind and soul.

  • تا که پایم می‏رود رانم در او ** چون نماند پا چو بطانم در او
  • I will march in It as long as my feet move; when feet remain not, I am (plunged) in It, like ducks.

  • بی‏ادب حاضر ز غایب خوشتر است ** حلقه گر چه کژ بود نه بر در است‏ 1360
  • An unrespectful person present is better than one absent: though the ring be crooked, is it not on the door?

  • ای تن آلوده به گرد حوض گرد ** پاک کی گردد برون حوض مرد
  • O defiled in body, frequent the tank: outside of the tank, how shall a man be cleansed?

  • پاک کاو از حوض مهجور اوفتاد ** او ز پاکی خویش هم دور اوفتاد
  • The pure one who has been banished from the tank becomes far also from his purity.

  • پاکی این حوض بی‏پایان بود ** پاکی اجسام کم میزان بود
  • The purity of this tank is infinite; the purity of bodies is of little weight,

  • ز انکه دل حوض است لیکن در کمین ** سوی دریا راه پنهان دارد این‏
  • Because the heart (though it) is a tank, yet in ambush (out of sight) it has a hidden channel to the Sea.

  • پاکی محدود تو خواهد مدد ** ور نه اندر خرج کم گردد عدد 1365
  • Your finite purity wants reinforcement; otherwise, number is diminished in (the course of) expenditure.

  • آب گفت آلوده را در من شتاب ** گفت آلوده که دارم شرم از آب‏
  • The water said to the defiled one, “Hasten (to come) into me.” The defiled one said, “I feel shame before the water.”

  • گفت آب این شرم بی‏من کی رود ** بی‏من این آلوده زایل کی شود
  • Said the water, “Without me how shall this shame go? Without me how shall this defilement be removed?”

  • ز آب هر آلوده کاو پنهان شود ** الحیاء یمنع الإیمان بود
  • Every defiled one who hides from the water is (an example of the saying that) “Shame hinders Faith.”

  • دل ز پایه‏ی حوض تن گلناک شد ** تن ز آب حوض دلها پاک شد
  • The heart is muddied by the steps of the body's tank; the body is cleansed by the water of the heart's tanks.

  • گرد پایه‏ی حوض دل گرد ای پسر ** هان ز پایه‏ی حوض تن می‏کن حذر 1370
  • Haunt the steps of the heart's tank, O son; take heed and always beware of the steps of the body's tank.

  • بحر تن بر بحر دل بر هم زنان ** در میانشان برزخ لا یبغیان‏
  • The sea of the body is dashing against the sea of the heart, (but) between them is a barrier which they shall not cross.

  • گر تو باشی راست ور باشی تو کژ ** پیشتر می‏غژ بدو واپس مغژ
  • Whether you be straight (righteous) or crooked, always creep forwards to Him; do not creep backwards.

  • پیش شاهان گر خطر باشد به جان ** لیک نشکیبد از او با همتان‏
  • If in the presence of kings there be danger to life, yet they that aspire cannot refrain from (presence with) Him.

  • شاه چون شیرین‏تر از شکر بود ** جان به شیرینی رود خوشتر بود
  • Since the King is sweeter than sugar, ’tis better that life should go (as a sacrifice) to (that) sweetness.

  • ای ملامت گر سلامت مر ترا ** ای سلامت جو تویی واهی العری‏ 1375
  • O blamer (of lovers), safety be thine! O seeker of safety, thou art infirm.

  • جان من کوره ست با آتش خوش است ** کوره را این بس که خانه‏ی آتش است‏
  • My soul is a furnace: it is happy with the fire: ’tis enough for the furnace that it is the fire's house.

  • همچو کوره عشق را سوزیدنی است ** هر که او زین کور باشد کوره نیست‏
  • For Love, as (for) the furnace, there is something to be burned: any one that is blind to this is not a furnace.

  • برگ بی‏برگی ترا چون برگ شد ** جان باقی یافتی و مرگ شد
  • When the provision of unprovidedness has become your provision, you have gained life everlasting, and death is gone.

  • چون ترا غم شادی افزودن گرفت ** روضه‏ی جانت گل و سوسن گرفت‏
  • When the pain (of love) has begun to increase your (spiritual) joy, roses and lilies have taken possession of the garden of your soul.

  • آن چه خوف دیگران آن امن تست ** بط قوی از بحر و مرغ خانه سست‏ 1380
  • That which is the dread of others is your safety (safeguard): the duck is (made) strong by the river, the domestic fowl weak.

  • باز دیوانه شدم من ای طبیب ** باز سودایی شدم من ای حبیب‏
  • Once more have I become mad, O Physician! Once more have I become frenzied, O Beloved!