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1960-1984

  • دشتها را گز گز آن شه چاه کند  ** رقعه را از خشم پیش او فکند  1960
  • (After) the king (had) dug pits in the deserts, yard by yard, he threw the scroll wrathfully before him (the fakir).

  • گفت گیر این رقعه کش آثار نیست  ** تو بدین اولیتری کت کار نیست 
  • “Take this scroll,” said he, “which has no (good) effects; you are the fittest (owner) for it, since you have no work.

  • نیست این کار کسی کش هست کار  ** که بسوزد گل بگردد گرد خار 
  • It is no use for one who has work (to do) that he should burn the rose and go about (busy himself with) the thorn.

  • نادر افتد اهل این ماخولیا  ** منتظر که روید از آهن گیا 
  • ’Tis singular (how) the victims of this melancholy madness expect grass to grow from iron.

  • سخت جانی باید این فن را چو تو  ** تو که داری جان سخت این را بجو 
  • This specialty needs a man of stout heart like you: do you, who have a stout heart, search for this (treasure).

  • گر نیابی نبودت هرگز ملال  ** ور بیابی آن به تو کردم حلال  1965
  • If you cannot find it, you will never weary (of seeking); and if you find it, I grant you the right of possession.”

  • عقل راه ناامیدی کی رود  ** عشق باشد کان طرف بر سر دود 
  • How should Reason wend the way of despair? ’Tis Love that runs on its head in that direction.

  • لاابالی عشق باشد نی خرد  ** عقل آن جوید کز آن سودی برد 
  • Love is reckless, not Reason: Reason seeks that from which it may get some profit.

  • ترک‌تاز و تن‌گداز و بی‌حیا  ** در بلا چون سنگ زیر آسیا 
  • (The lover is) fierce in onset and body-consuming and unabashed: in tribulation, like the nether millstone;

  • سخت‌رویی که ندارد هیچ پشت  ** بهره‌جویی را درون خویش کشت 
  • A hard-faced one that has no back: he has killed in himself the seeking of self-interest.

  • پاک می‌بازد نباشد مزدجو  ** آنچنان که پاک می‌گیرد ز هو  1970
  • He gambles (everything) clean away, he seeks no reward, even as he receives (everything) clean (as a free gift) from Him (God).

  • می‌دهد حق هستیش بی‌علتی  ** می‌سپارد باز بی‌علت فتی 
  • God gives him his existence without any cause: the devoted (lover) yields it up again without cause;

  • که فتوت دادن بی علتست  ** پاک‌بازی خارج هر ملتست 
  • For devotion consists in giving without cause: gambling (one's self) clean away (pure self-sacrifice) is outside of (transcends) every religion.

  • زانک ملت فضل جوید یا خلاص  ** پاک بازانند قربانان خاص 
  • Forasmuch as religion seeks (Divine) grace or salvation, those who gamble (everything) clean away are (God's) chosen favourites.

  • نی خدا را امتحانی می‌کنند  ** نی در سود و زیانی می‌زنند 
  • Neither do they put God to any test, nor do they knock at the door of any profit or loss.

  • باز دادن شاه گنج‌نامه را به آن فقیر کی بگیر ما از سر این برخاستیم 
  • How the king gave back the treasure-scroll to the fakir, saying, “Take it: we are quit of it.”

  • چونک رقعه‌ی گنج پر آشوب را  ** شه مسلم داشت آن مکروب را  1975
  • When the king handed over to that grief-stricken man the treasure-scroll (which was) fraught with commotion,

  • گشت آمن او ز خصمان و ز نیش  ** رفت و می‌پیچید در سودای خویش 
  • He (the fakir) became secure from rivals and annoyance, (so) he went and wrapped himself in his melancholy madness.

  • یار کرد او عشق درداندیش را  ** کلب لیسد خویش ریش خویش را 
  • He made sad-thoughted Love his friend: a dog licks his own sore himself.

  • عشق را در پیچش خود یار نیست  ** محرمش در ده یکی دیار نیست 
  • Love hath none to help him in his torment: there is not in the village one inhabitant familiar with him.

  • نیست از عاشق کسی دیوانه‌تر  ** عقل از سودای او کورست و کر 
  • None is more mad than the lover, (yet) Reason is blind and deaf to his melancholia,

  • زآنک این دیوانگی عام نیست  ** طب را ارشاد این احکام نیست  1980
  • Because this is no common madness: in these cases Medicine cannot give right guidance.

  • گر طبیبی را رسد زین گون جنون  ** دفتر طب را فرو شوید به خون 
  • If frenzy of this kind overtake a physician, he will wash out (obliterate) the book of Medicine with (tears of) blood.

  • طب جمله‌ی عقلها منقوش اوست  ** روی جمله دلبران روپوش اوست 
  • The Medicine of all intellects is (but) a picture of him (Love); the faces of all sweethearts are (but) a veil of him.

  • روی در روی خود آر ای عشق‌کیش  ** نیست ای مفتون ترا جز خویش خویش 
  • O votary of Love, turn thy face towards thine own face: thou hast no kinsman but thyself, O distraught one.

  • قبله از دل ساخت آمد در دعا  ** لیس للانسان الا ما سعی 
  • He (the fakir) made a qibla of his heart and began to pray: man hath naught but that for which he laboureth.