شاه را غیرت بود بر هر که او ** بو گزیند بعد از آن که دید رو

شاه را غیرت بود بر هر که او ** بو گزیند بعد از آن که دید رو 1770

The King is jealous of any one who, after having seen the face, prefers the (mere) scent.

غیرت حق بر مثل گندم بود ** کاه خرمن غیرت مردم بود

To speak in parables, God's jealousy is the wheat, (while) men's jealousy is the straw in the stack.

اصل غیرتها بدانید از اله ** آن خلقان فرع حق بی‌‌اشتباه‌‌

Know that the root of (all) jealousies is in God: those of mankind are an offshoot from God, without resemblance (being implied).

شرح این بگذارم و گیرم گله ** از جفای آن نگار ده دله‌‌

I will leave the explanation of this and will begin to complain of the cruelty of that fickle Beauty.

نالم ایرا ناله‌‌ها خوش آیدش ** از دو عالم ناله و غم بایدش‌‌

I wail because wailings are pleasant to Him: He wants from the two worlds wailing and grief.

چون ننالم تلخ از دستان او ** چون نیم در حلقه‌‌ی مستان او 1775

How should I not wail bitterly on account of His deceit, since I am not in the circle of those intoxicated with Him?

چون نباشم همچو شب بی‌‌روز او ** بی‌‌وصال روی روز افروز او

How shall I not be like night, without His day and without the favour of His day-illuming countenance?

ناخوش او خوش بود در جان من ** جان فدای یار دل رنجان من‌‌

His unsweetness is sweet in my soul: may my soul be sacrificed to the Beloved who grieves my heart!

عاشقم بر رنج خویش و درد خویش ** بهر خشنودی شاه فرد خویش‌‌

I am in love with my grief and pain for the sake of pleasing my peerless King.

خاک غم را سرمه سازم بهر چشم ** تا ز گوهر پر شود دو بحر چشم‌‌

I make the dust of sorrow a salve for mine eye, that the two seas of mine eyes may be filled with pearls.