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  • ور بگفتی برگها خوش می‌طپند  ** ور بگفتی خوش همی‌سوزد سپند  4025
  • Or if she said, “The leaves are quivering mightily”; or if she said, “The rue-seed is burning merrily”;

  • ور بگفتی گل به بلبل راز گفت  ** ور بگفتی شه سر شهناز گفت 
  • Or if she said, “The rose has told her secret to the nightingale”; or if she said, “The king has disclosed his passion for Shahnáz”;

  • ور بگفتی چه همایونست بخت  ** ور بگفتی که بر افشانید رخت 
  • Or if she said, “How auspicious is Fortune!” or if she said, “Give the furniture a good dusting”;

  • ور بگفتی که سقا آورد آب  ** ور بگفتی که بر آمد آفتاب 
  • Or if she said, “The water-carrier has brought the water”; or if she said, “The sun is risen”;

  • ور بگفتی دوش دیگی پخته‌اند  ** یا حوایج از پزش یک لخته‌اند 
  • Or if she said, “Last night they cooked a potful of food” or “The vegetables are cooked to perfection”;

  • ور بگفتی هست نانها بی‌نمک  ** ور بگفتی عکس می‌گردد فلک  4030
  • Or if she said, “The loaves have no salt (savour)”; or if she said, “The heavenly sphere is going round in the contrary direction”;

  • ور بگفتی که به درد آمد سرم  ** ور بگفتی درد سر شد خوشترم 
  • Or if she said, “My head aches”; or if she said, “My headache is better”—

  • گر ستودی اعتناق او بدی  ** ور نکوهیدی فراق او بدی 
  • If she praised, ’twas his (Joseph's) caresses (that she meant); and if she blamed, ’twas separation from him (that she meant).

  • صد هزاران نام گر بر هم زدی  ** قصد او و خواه او یوسف بدی 
  • If she piled up a hundred thousand names, her meaning and intention was always Joseph.

  • گرسنه بودی چو گفتی نام او  ** می‌شدی او سیر و مست جام او 
  • Were she hungry, as soon as she spoke his name she would be filled (with spiritual food) and intoxicated by his cup.

  • تشنگیش از نام او ساکن شدی  ** نام یوسف شربت باطن شدی  4035
  • Her thirst would be quenched by his name: the name of Joseph was a sherbet to her soul;

  • ور بدی دردیش زان نام بلند  ** درد او در حال گشتی سودمند 
  • And if she were in pain, her pain would immediately be turned into profit by that exalted name.

  • وقت سرما بودی او را پوستین  ** این کند در عشق نام دوست این 
  • In cold weather it was a fur to her. This, this (is what) the Beloved's name can do (when one is) in love.

  • عام می‌خوانند هر دم نام پاک  ** این عمل نکند چو نبود عشقناک 
  • The vulgar are always pronouncing the Holy Name, (but) it does not do this work (for them) since they are not endowed with (true) love.

  • آنچ عیسی کرده بود از نام هو  ** می‌شدی پیدا ورا از نام او 
  • That (miracle) which Jesus had wrought by (pronouncing) the Name of Hú (God) was manifested to her through the name of him (Joseph).

  • چونک با حق متصل گردید جان  ** ذکر آن اینست و ذکر اینست آن  4040
  • When the soul has been united with God, to speak of that (God) is (to speak of) this (soul), and to speak of this (soul) is (to speak of) that (God).

  • 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.