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4741-4750

  • زان عرب بنهاد نام می مدام ** زانک سیری نیست می‌خور را مدام
  • Hence the Arabs applied the name mudám to wine, because the wine-drinker is never sated.

  • عشق جوشد باده‌ی تحقیق را ** او بود ساقی نهان صدیق را
  • Love makes the wine of realisation to bubble: He is the cup-bearer to the siddíq (true lover) in secret.

  • چون بجویی تو بتوفیق حسن ** باده آب جان بود ابریق تن
  • When you seek (the reality) with good help (from God), the water (essence) of the spirit is the wine, and the body is the flagon.

  • چون بیفزاید می توفیق را ** قوت می بشکند ابریق را
  • When He increases the wine of His help, the potency of the wine bursts the flagon.

  • آب گردد ساقی و هم مست آب ** چون مگو والله اعلم بالصواب 4745
  • The water (the spirit) becomes the Cup-bearer, and the water (is) also the drunken man. Tell not how! And Go best knoweth the right.

  • پرتو ساقیست کاندر شیره رفت ** شیره بر جوشید و رقصان گشت و زفت
  • ‘Tis the radiance of the Cup-bearer that entered into the must: the must bubbled up and began to dance and waxed strong.

  • اندرین معنی بپرس آن خیره را ** که چنین کی دیده بودی شیره را
  • On this matter, ask the heedless (sceptic), “When did you (ever) see must like this?”

  • بی تفکر پیش هر داننده هست ** آنک با شوریده شوراننده هست
  • To every one who hath knowledge it is (self-evident) without reflection, that together with the person disturbed there is a Disturber.

  • حکایت عاشقی دراز هجرانی بسیار امتحانی
  • Story of the lover who had been long separated (from his beloved) and had suffered much tribulation.

  • یک جوانی بر زنی مجنون بدست ** می‌ندادش روزگار وصل دست
  • A certain youth was madly enamoured of a woman: the fortune of union was not granted to him.

  • بس شکنجه کرد عشقش بر زمین ** خود چرا دارد ز اول عشق کین 4750
  • Love tortured him exceedingly on the earth: why, in sooth, does Love bear hatred (to the lover) from the first?