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در بخارا بندهی صدر جهان ** متهم شد گشت از صدرش نهان
- In Bukhárá the servant of the Sadr-i Jahán incurred suspicion and hid from his Sadr (prince).
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مدت ده سال سرگردان بگشت ** گه خراسان گه کهستان گاه دشت
- During ten years he roamed distractedly, now in Khurásán, now in the mountain-land, now in the desert.
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از پس ده سال او از اشتیاق ** گشت بیطاقت ز ایام فراق
- After ten years, through longing he became unable to endure the days of separation (from his beloved).
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گفت تاب فرقتم زین پس نماند ** صبر کی داند خلاعت را نشاند
- He said, “Henceforth I cannot bear to be parted (from him) any more: how can patience allay (the lover's) state of abandonment?”
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از فراق این خاکها شوره بود ** آب زرد و گنده و تیره شود 3690
- From separation these soils are nitrous (barren), and water becomes yellow and stinking and dark;
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باد جانافزا وخم گردد وبا ** آتشی خاکستری گردد هبا
- The life-increasing wind (air) becomes unhealthy and pestilential; a fire turns to ashes and dust.
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باغ چون جنت شود دار المرض ** زرد و ریزان برگ او اندر حرض
- The orchard which resembled Paradise becomes the abode of disease, (with) its leaves yellow and dropping in decay.
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عقل دراک از فراق دوستان ** همچو تیرانداز اشکسته کمان
- The penetrating intellect, through separation from its friends, (becomes) like an archer whose bow is broken.
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دوزخ از فرقت چنان سوزان شدست ** پیر از فرقت چنان لرزان شدست
- From separation Hell has become so burning; from separation the old man has become so trembling.
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گر بگویم از فراق چون شرار ** تا قیامت یک بود از صد هزار 3695
- If I should speak of separation, (which is) like sparks of fire, till the Resurrection, ’twould be (only) one (part) out of a hundred thousand.