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3089-3098

  • خواست مردن قالبش بی‌کار شد ** عمر مانده بود شه بیدار شد
  • He was about to die, his body became inert; (but) his life had been left (for completion): the king awoke.

  • شادیی آمد ز بیداریش پیش ** که ندیده بود اندر عمر خویش 3090
  • From awaking, there came to him a joy which he had not experienced in (all) his life;

  • که ز شادی خواست هم فانی شدن ** بس مطوق آمد این جان و بدن
  • For (now) from joy likewise he was about to perish: this spirit and body is mightily shackled with the collar (of death).

  • از دم غم می‌بمیرد این چراغ ** وز دم شادی بمیرد اینت لاغ
  • This lamp dies from (is extinguished by) the breath of sorrow, and it also dies from the breath of joy. Here, look you, is a pleasant jest!

  • در میان این دو مرگ او زنده است ** این مطوق شکل جای خنده است
  • He (Man) is living between these two deaths: this (being) that resembles one shackled with a collar is an occasion for laughter.

  • شاه با خود گفت شادی را سبب ** آنچنان غم بود از تسبیب رب
  • The king said to himself, “In consequence of the Lord's causation such a sorrow as that was the cause of joy.”

  • ای عجب یک چیز از یک روی مرگ ** وان ز یک روی دگر احیا و برگ 3095
  • Oh, wonderful (that) the same thing from one aspect (is) death and from another aspect a quickening with life and a provision!

  • آن یکی نسبت بدان حالت هلاک ** باز هم آن سوی دیگر امتساک
  • The same thing is destructive in relation to one circumstance, while again it is preservative in regard to another.

  • شادی تن سوی دنیاوی کمال ** سوی روز عاقبت نقص و زوال
  • Bodily joy is perfection in regard to that which is of the present world, (but it is) defect and failure in regard to the Day of the latter end.

  • خنده را در خواب هم تعبیر خوان ** گریه گوید با دریغ و اندهان
  • The oneiromancer, too, declares laughter in dreams to be (a presage of) weeping with regrets and griefs,