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  • چون کراهت رفت مردن نفع شد ** پس درست آید که مردن دفع شد
  • When dislike is gone, dying becomes advantageous; hence it comes true that death is repelled.

  • دوست حقست و کسی کش گفت او ** که توی آن من و من آن تو
  • The beloved is God and the person to whom He hath said, “Thou art Mine and I am thine.”

  • گوش دار اکنون که عاشق می‌رسد ** بسته عشق او را به حبل من مسد 4615
  • Now listen, for the lover is coming whom Love bound with a cord of palm-fibre.

  • چون بدید او چهره‌ی صدر جهان ** گوییا پریدش از تن مرغ جان
  • When he beheld the countenance of the Sadr-i Jahán, you might say the bird, his spirit, flew out of his body.

  • همچو چوب خشک افتاد آن تنش ** سرد شد از فرق جان تا ناخنش
  • His body fell like dry wood: his vital spirit became cold from the crown of his head to his toes.

  • هرچه کردند از بخور و از گلاب ** نه بجنبید و نه آمد در خطاب
  • Whatsoever they applied of incense and rose-water, he neither stirred nor spoke.

  • شاه چون دید آن مزعفر روی او ** پس فرود آمد ز مرکب سوی او
  • When the King saw his saffron-coloured (pallid) face, he dismounted from his steed (and came) towards him.

  • گفت عاشق دوست می‌جوید بتفت ** چونک معشوق آمد آن عاشق برفت 4620
  • He said, “The lover hotly seeks the beloved: when the beloved comes, the lover is gone.”

  • عاشق حقی و حق آنست کو ** چون بیاید نبود از تو تای مو
  • Thou art a lover of God, and God is such that when He comes there is not a single hair of thee (remaining).

  • صد چو تو فانیست پیش آن نظر ** عاشقی بر نفی خود خواجه مگر
  • At that look (of His) a hundred like thee vanish away: me-thinks, sire, thou art in love with self-naughting .