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1685-1709

  • چند در آتش نشستی همچو عود ** چند پیش تیغ رفتی همچو خود 1685
  • (That) you have sat—how often!—in the fire, like aloes-wood; that you have gone—how often!—to meet the sword, like a helmet.

  • زین چنین بی‏چارگیها صد هزار ** خوی عشاق است و ناید در شمار
  • A hundred thousand such acts of helplessness are habitual to lovers (of God), and (their number) cannot be reckoned.

  • چون که شب این خواب دیدی روز شد ** از امیدش روز تو پیروز شد
  • After you have had this dream at night, the day breaks; through hope thereof your day becomes triumphant.

  • چشم گردان کرده‏ای بر چپ و راست ** کان نشان و آن علامتها کجاست‏
  • You have turned your eye to left and right, (wondering) where is that sign and those tokens.

  • بر مثال برگ می‏لرزی که وای ** گر رود روز و نشان ناید به جای‏
  • You are trembling like a leaf (and saying), “Alas, if the day depart and the sign come not to pass!”

  • می‏دوی در کوی و بازار و سرا ** چون کسی کاو گم کند گوساله را 1690
  • You are running in street and market and into houses, like one that should lose a calf.

  • خواجه خیر است این دوادو چیستت ** گم شده اینجا که داری کیستت‏
  • (Somebody asks), “Is it good (news), Sir? Why are you running to and fro? Who belonging to you is it that you have lost here?”

  • گویی‏اش خیر است لیکن خیر من ** کس نشاید که بداند غیر من‏
  • “It is good (news),” you tell him, “but none may know my good (news) except myself.

  • گر بگویم نک نشانم فوت شد ** چون نشان شد فوت وقت موت شد
  • If I tell it, lo, my sign is missed, and when the sign is missed, the hour of death is come.”

  • بنگری در روی هر مرد سوار ** گویدت منگر مرا دیوانه‏وار
  • You peer into the face of every rider: he says to you, “Do not look at me like a madman.”

  • گویی‏اش من صاحبی گم کرده‏ام ** رو به جستجوی او آورده‏ام‏ 1695
  • You say to him, “I have lost a friend; I have set out to seek him.

  • دولتت پاینده بادا ای سوار ** رحم کن بر عاشقان معذور دار
  • May thy fortune be lasting, O rider! Have pity on lovers and excuse (them).”

  • چون طلب کردی به جد آمد نظر ** جد خطا نکند چنین آمد خبر
  • When you have made search (and your) looking has been in earnest—earnest endeavour does not fail: so the Tradition has come down (from the Prophet)—

  • ناگهان آمد سواری نیک بخت ** پس گرفت اندر کنارت سخت سخت‏
  • Suddenly comes a blessed rider; then he clasps you very closely to his breast.

  • تو شدی بی‏هوش و افتادی به طاق ** بی‏خبر گفت اینت سالوس و نفاق‏
  • You become senseless and fall to vaunting (ecstatically); the ignorant (uninitiated) man says, “Here is fraud and hypocrisy.”

  • او چه می‏بیند در او این شور چیست ** او نداند کان نشان وصل کیست‏ 1700
  • How does he see what this enthusiasm in him (the enraptured person) is? He knows not (who it is) with whom that is the sign of union.

  • این نشان در حق او باشد که دید ** آن دگر را کی نشان آید پدید
  • This sign concerns (only) him that has seen (before): how should the sign appear to the other one?

  • هر زمان کز وی نشانی می‏رسید ** شخص را جانی به جانی می‏رسید
  • Every moment that a sign was coming from Him, a (new) spirit was coming into that person's spirit.

  • ماهی بی‏چاره را پیش آمد آب ** این نشانها تلک آیات الکتاب‏
  • Water has reached the helpless fish. These signs are (those mentioned in the text) those are the signs of the Book.

  • پس نشانیها که اندر انبیاست ** خاص آن جان را بود کاو آشناست‏
  • Hence the signs which are in the prophets are peculiar to (known exclusively by) him who is a friend (knower and lover of God).

  • این سخن ناقص بماند و بی‏قرار ** دل ندارم بی‏دلم معذور دار 1705
  • This discourse remains imperfect and unsettled; I have no heart (understanding), I am out of my mind: excuse me.

  • ذره‏ها را کی تواند کس شمرد ** خاصه آن کاو عشق عقل او ببرد
  • How can any one number the motes, especially that one whose understanding has been transported by Love?

  • می‏شمارم برگهای باغ را ** می‏شمارم بانگ کبک و زاغ را
  • Shall I number the leaves of the garden? Shall I number the cries of the partridge and the crow?

  • در شمار اندر نیاید لیک من ** می‏شمارم بهر رشد ممتحن‏
  • They come not into computation, but I enumerate them for the guidance of him that is put to trial.

  • نحس کیوان یا که سعد مشتری ** ناید اندر حصر گر چه بشمری‏
  • The sinister influence of Saturn and the auspicious influence of Jupiter come not into computation, though you may enumerate;