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یار را اغیار پنداری همی ** شادیی را نام بنهادی غمی
- Thou art deeming thy Friend a stranger: upon a joy thou hast bestowed the name of a grief.”
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اینچنین نخلی که لطف یار ماست ** چونک ما دزدیم نخلش دار ماست
- Such a date-palm, which is our Friend's favour—since we are robbers, His date-palm is our gallows.
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اینچنین مشکین که زلف میر ماست ** چونک بی‌عقلیم این زنجیر ماست
- Such a musky (fragrant) object, which is the tress of our Prince—since we are demented, this (tress) is our chain.
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اینچنین لطفی چو نیلی می‌رود ** چونک فرعونیم چون خون می‌شود 3785
- Such a (Divine) grace is flowing like a Nile—since we are Pharaohs, it is becoming like blood.
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خون همی‌گوید من آبم هین مریز ** یوسفم گرگ از توم ای پر ستیز
- The blood is saying, “I am water. Beware, do not spill (me)! I am (really) Joseph, (but) you make me the wolf, O contentious man.”
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تو نمی‌بینی که یار بردبار ** چونک با او ضد شدی گردد چو مار
- Don't you see that a long-suffering friend becomes like a snake when you have grown hostile to him?
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لحم او و شحم او دیگر نشد ** او چنان بد جز که از منظر نشد
- His flesh and fat (real nature) is unchanged: (’tis) only in appearance (that) he has become so evil.
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عزم کردن آن وکیل ازعشق کی رجوع کند به بخارا لاابالی‌وار
- How that Wakíl, (moved) by love, made up his mind to return to Bukhárá recklessly.
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شمع مریم را بهل افروخته ** که بخارا می‌رود آن سوخته
- Leave the candle of Mary lighted, for that ardent (lover) is going to Bukhárá,
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سخت بی‌صبر و در آتشدان تیز ** رو سوی صدر جهان می‌کن گریز 3790
- Mightily impatient and in the blazing furnace (of love). Go, make a transition to the (story of the) Sadr-i Jahán.
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این بخارا منبع دانش بود ** پس بخاراییست هر کنش بود
- This “Bukhárá” is the source if knowledge; therefore every one who has that (knowledge) is a native of “Bukhárá.”
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پیش شیخی در بخارا اندری ** تا به خواری در بخارا ننگری
- In the presence of a Shaykh you are in “Bukhárá”: see that you do not look on “Bukhárá” as lowly.
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جز به خواری در بخارای دلش ** راه ندهد جزر و مد مشکلش
- Save with lowliness (shown by you), its difficult ebb and flow will not give (you) entrance into the “Bukhárá” of his heart.
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ای خنک آن را که ذلت نفسه ** وای آنکس را که یردی رفسه
- Oh, happy he whose carnal soul is abased! Alas for that one whose recalcitrance destroys (him)!
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فرقت صدر جهان در جان او ** پاره پاره کرده بود ارکان او 3795
- Separation from the Sadr-i Jahán had shattered (the Wakíl’s) foundations to pieces in his soul.
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گفت بر خیزم هم‌آنجا واروم ** کافر ار گشتم دگر ره بگروم
- He said, “I will rise up and go back thither: if I have become an infidel, I will believe once more.
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واروم آنجا بیفتم پیش او ** پیش آن صدر نکواندیش او
- I will go back thither and fall before him-before its (Bukhárá’s) kindly-thinking Sadr (Prince).
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گویم افکندم به پیشت جان خویش ** زنده کن یا سر ببر ما را چو میش
- I will say, ‘I throw myself before thee: revive (me) or cut off my head, like a sheep!
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کشته و مرده به پیشت ای قمر ** به که شاه زندگان جای دگر
- ‘Tis better to be slain and dead before thee, O Moon, that to be the king of the living in another place.
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آزمودم من هزاران بار بیش ** بی تو شیرین می‌نبینم عیش خویش 3800
- I have put it to the test more than a thousand times: I don not deem my life sweet without thee.
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غن لی یا منیتی لحن النشور ** ابرکی یا ناقتی تم السرور
- Sing to me, O object of my desire, the melody of resurrection! Kneel, O my she-camel! The joy is complete.
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ابلعی یا ارض دمعی قد کفی ** اشربی یا نفس وردا قد صفا
- O earth, swallow my tears- surely they are enough. Drink, O my soul, a draught that is now pure!
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عدت یا عیدی الینا مرحبا ** نعم ما روحت یا ریح الصبا
- Thou hast returned to us, O my festival! Welcome! How goodly is the refreshment thou hast brought, O Zephyr!’”
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گفت ای یاران روان گشتم وداع ** سوی آن صدری که امیرست و مطاع
- He said, “Farewell, my friends: I have set out towards the Sadr who commands and is obeyed.
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دم‌بدم در سوز بریان می‌شوم ** هرچه بادا باد آنجا می‌روم 3805
- Moment by moment I am being roasted in the flames. (of separation from him): I will go thither, come what may!
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گرچه دل چون سنگ خارا می‌کند ** جان من عزم بخارا می‌کند
- Although he is making his heart like a hard rock (against me), my soul is bound for Bukhárá.