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1744-1753

  • من چه غم دارم که ویرانی بود ** زیر ویران گنج سلطانی بود
  • What care I though ruin be (wrought)? Under the ruin there is a royal treasure.

  • غرق حق خواهد که باشد غرق‌‌تر ** همچو موج بحر جان زیر و زبر 1745
  • He that is drowned in God wishes to be more drowned, (while) his spirit (is tossed) up and down like the waves of the sea,

  • زیر دریا خوشتر آید یا زبر ** تیر او دل کش تر آید یا سپر
  • (Asking), “Is the bottom of the sea more delightful, or the top? Is His (the Beloved's) arrow more fascinating, or the shield?”

  • پاره کرده‌‌ی وسوسه باشی دلا ** گر طرب را باز دانی از بلا
  • O heart, thou art torn asunder by evil suggestion if thou recognise any difference between joy and woe.

  • گر مرادت را مذاق شکر است ** بی‌‌مرادی نه مراد دل بر است‌‌
  • Although the object of thy desire has the taste of sugar, is not absence of any object of desire (in thee) the object of the Beloved's desire?

  • هر ستاره‌‌ش خونبهای صد هلال ** خون عالم ریختن او را حلال‌‌
  • Every star of His is the blood-price of a hundred new moons: it is lawful for Him to shed the blood of the (whole) world.

  • ما بها و خونبها را یافتیم ** جانب جان باختن بشتافتیم‌‌ 1750
  • We gained the price and the blood-price: we hastened to gamble our soul away.

  • ای حیات عاشقان در مردگی ** دل نیابی جز که در دل بردگی‌‌
  • Oh, the life of lovers consists in death: thou wilt not win the (Beloved's) heart except in losing thine own.

  • من دلش جسته به صد ناز و دلال ** او بهانه کرده با من از ملال‌‌
  • I sought (to win) His heart with a hundred airs and graces, (but) He made excuses to me (put me off) in disdain.

  • گفتم آخر غرق تست این عقل و جان ** گفت رو رو بر من این افسون مخوان‌‌
  • I said, “After all, this mind and soul (of mine) are drowned in Thee.” “Begone,” said He, “begone! Do not chant these spells over Me (do not seek thus to beguile Me).