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  • نحس خرگوشی که باشد شیرجو ** زیرکی و عقل و چالاکیت کو
  • Luckless is the hare that seeks (to encounter) the lion: where is thy cleverness and intelligence and quick-wittedness?

  • هست صد چندین فسونهای قضا ** گفت اذا جاء القضا ضاق الفضا
  • The wiles of Destiny are a hundred times as many (as thine): he (the Prophet) has said, ‘When Destiny comes, the wide field is straitened.’

  • صد ره و مخلص بود از چپ و راست ** از قضا بسته شود کو اژدهاست
  • There are a hundred ways and places of refuge on left and right, (but) they are barred by Destiny, for it is a dragon.”

  • جواب گفتن عاشق عاذلان را وتهدید کنندگان را
  • How the lover answered those who scolded and threatened him.

  • گفت من مستسقیم آبم کشد ** گرچه می‌دانم که هم آبم کشد
  • He said, “I am dropsical: the water draws me, though I know that the water too will kill me.

  • هیچ مستقسقی بنگریزد ز آب ** گر دو صد بارش کند مات و خراب 3885
  • None afflicted with dropsy will flee from the water, even if it checkmate and ruin him two hundred times.

  • گر بیاماسد مرا دست و شکم ** عشق آب از من نخواهد گشت کم
  • If my hands and belly become swollen, (yet) the passionate desire for the water will not abate (and depart) from me.

  • گویم آنگه که بپرسند از بطون ** کاشکی بحرم روان بودی درون
  • At the time when they ask me of my inward state, I say, ‘Would that the Sea were flowing within me!’

  • خیک اشکم گو بدر از موج آب ** گر بمیرم هست مرگم مستطاب
  • Let the water-skin, my belly, be burst by the waves of the water: if I die, my death is acceptable.

  • من بهر جایی که بینم آب جو ** رشکم آید بودمی من جای او
  • Wherever I see the water of a stream, jealousy comes over me (and I wish) that I might be in its place.

  • دست چون دف و شکم همچون دهل ** طبل عشق آب می‌کوبم چو گل 3890
  • (With) hands (swollen) like a tambourine and belly like a drum, I am beating the drum of (I am proclaiming) my love for the water, as the rose (does).