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1964-2013

  • 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.

  • پیش از آن کو پاسخی بشنیده بود  ** سالها اندر دعا پیچیده بود  1985
  • Ere he had heard any answer (to his prayer) he had (already) been engaged in praying for (many) years.

  • بی‌اجابت بر دعاها می‌تنید  ** از کرم لبیک پنهان می‌شنید 
  • He was always praying intently without (receiving) any (overt) response, (but) he was hearing Labbayka in secret from the (Divine) grace.

  • چونک بی‌دف رقص می‌کرد آن علیل  ** ز اعتماد جود خلاق جلیل 
  • Since that sickly man was always dancing without the tambourine, in reliance upon the bounty of the Almighty Creator,

  • سوی او نه هاتف و نه پیک بود  ** گوش اومیدش پر از لبیک بود 
  • (Though) neither a heavenly voice nor a (Divine) messenger was (ever) beside him, (yet) the ear of his hope was filled with Labbayka;

  • بی‌زبان می‌گفت اومیدش تعال  ** از دلش می‌روفت آن دعوت ملال 
  • His hope was always saying, without tongue, “Come!” and that call was sweeping (all) weariness from his heart.

  • آن کبوتر را که بام آموختست  ** تو مخوان می‌رانش کان پر دوختست  1990
  • Do not call the pigeon that has learned (to haunt) the roof: drive it away (if you can), for its wings are stuck (to the roof).

  • ای ضیاء الحق حسام‌الدین برانش  ** کز ملاقات تو بر رستست جانش 
  • Do thou, O Radiance of God, Husámu’ddín, drive him (such an one) away (if thou canst), for (’tis) through meeting with thee (that) his spirit has grown up in him.

  • گر برانی مرغ جانش از گزاف  ** هم بگرد بام تو آرد طواف 
  • If thou unconscionably drive away the bird, his spirit, it will still circle about thy roof.

  • چینه و نقلش همه بر بام تست  ** پر زنان بر اوج مست دام تست 
  • All its grain and food is on thy roof: (while) flying in the zenith, it is (still) intoxicated with (love for) thy snare.

  • گر دمی منکر شود دزدانه روح  ** در ادای شکرت ای فتح و فتوح 
  • If for one moment the spirit stealthily (secretly) disbelieve in rendering thanks to thee, O (thou who art bestowing) victory and favour (upon it),

  • شحنه‌ی عشق مکرر کینه‌اش  ** طشت آتش می‌نهد بر سینه‌اش  1995
  • Love, the magistrate who exacts vengeance repeatedly, will lay the fiery cauldron (of separation) on its breast,

  • که بیا سوی مه و بگذر ز گرد  ** شاه عشقت خواند زوتر باز گرد 
  • Saying, “Come to the Moon and leave the dust behind; Love, the King, calls thee: return with all speed!”

  • گرد این بام و کبوترخانه من  ** چون کبوتر پر زنم مستانه من 
  • I am flying ecstatically, like a pigeon, about this roof and pigeon-house.

  • جبرئیل عشقم و سدره‌م توی  ** من سقیمم عیسی مریم توی 
  • I am Love's Gabriel, and thou art my Lotus-tree; I am the sick man, and thou art (my) Jesus son of Mary.

  • جوش ده آن بحر گوهربار را  ** خوش بپرس امروز این بیمار را 
  • Let that pearl-shedding sea (of thine) break into surge: to-day ask kindly after this ailing one.

  • چون تو آن او شدی بحر آن اوست  ** گرچه این دم نوبت بحران اوست  2000
  • When thou hast become his, the sea (of spiritual mysteries) is his, even though this is the hour of his crisis.

  • این خود آن ناله‌ست کو کرد آشکار  ** آنچ پنهانست یا رب زینهار 
  • This (Mathnawí) is only the wailful music that he has uttered; (as for) that which is (kept) hidden (within him), (have) mercy, O Lord!

  • دو دهان داریم گویا هم‌چو نی  ** یک دهان پنهانست در لبهای وی 
  • We have two vocal mouths, like the reed: one mouth is hidden in his lips.

  • یک دهان نالان شده سوی شما  ** های هویی در فکنده در هوا 
  • One mouth is wailing unto you: it lets (many) a shrill note fall on the air;

  • لیک داند هر که او را منظرست  ** که فغان این سری هم زان سرست 
  • But every one who hath insight knows that the lamentation (issuing) at this end is (inspired) from that end.

  • دمدمه‌ی این نای از دمهای اوست  ** های هوی روح از هیهای اوست  2005
  • The noise of this reed is from his breaths: the spirit's outcry is from his outcry.

  • گر نبودی با لبش نی را سمر  ** نی جهان را پر نکردی از شکر 
  • If the reed had no converse with his lip, the reed would not fill the world with (music sweet as) sugar.

  • با کی خفتی وز چه پهلو خاستی  ** که چنین پر جوش چون دریاستی 
  • With whom hast thou slept and from what (whose) side hast thou risen, that thou art so full of agitation, like the sea?

  • یا ابیت عند ربی خواندی  ** در دل دریای آتش راندی 
  • Or hast thou recited (the words of the Prophet), “I pass the night with my Lord,” and plunged into the heart of the sea of fire?

  • نعره‌ی یا نار کونی باردا  ** عصمت جان تو گشت ای مقتدا 
  • The shout (of God), “O fire, be cool,” became a protection to thy spirit, O exemplar (for all).

  • ای ضیاء الحق حسام دین و دل  ** کی توان اندود خورشیدی به گل  2010
  • O Radiance of God, Husám (Sword) religious and spiritual, how can a sun be daubed over with clay?

  • قصد کردستند این گل‌پاره‌ها  ** که بپوشانند خورشید ترا 
  • These lumps of clay (thy detractors) attempted (in vain) to cover up thy sun.

  • در دل که لعلها دلال تست  ** باغها از خنده مالامال تست 
  • The rubies in the mountain's heart are brokers (advertisers) of thee; the orchards in (their) laughter (full-blown beauty) are filled to the brim with thee.

  • محرم مردیت را کو رستمی  ** تا ز صد خرمن یکی جو گفتمی 
  • For one familiar (as I am) with thy manhood, where is a Rustam that I might tell (him) a single barley-corn (thereof) out of (thy) hundred stacks?