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1253-1262

  • کانچ اصل اصل عشقست و ولاست  ** آن نکردی اینچ کردی فرعهاست 
  • For thou hast not done what is the root of the root of love and fealty: this that thou hast done is (only) the branches.”

  • گفتش آن عاشق بگو که آن اصل چیست  ** گفت اصلش مردنست ونیستیست 
  • The lover said to her, “Tell me, what is that root?” She said, “The root thereof is to die and be naught.

  • تو همه کردی نمردی زنده‌ای  ** هین بمیر ار یار جان‌بازنده‌ای  1255
  • Thou hast done all (else), (but) thou hast not died, thou art living. Hark, die, if thou art a self-sacrificing friend!”

  • هم در آن دم شد دراز و جان بداد  ** هم‌چو گل درباخت سر خندان و شاد 
  • Instantly he laid himself at full length (on the ground) and gave up the ghost: like the rose, he played away his head (life), laughing and rejoicing.

  • ماند آن خنده برو وقف ابد  ** هم‌چو جان و عقل عارف بی‌کبد 
  • That laughter remained with him as an endowment unto everlasting, like the untroubled spirit and reason of the gnostic.

  • نور مه‌آلوده کی گردد ابد  ** گر زند آن نور بر هر نیک و بد 
  • How should the light of the moon ever become defiled, though its light strike on everything good and evil?

  • او ز جمله پاک وا گردد به ماه  ** هم‌چو نور عقل و جان سوی اله 
  • Pure of all (defilements) it returns to the moon, even as the light of the spirit and reason (returns) unto God.

  • وصف پاکی وقف بر نور مه‌است  ** تا بشش گر بر نجاسات ره‌است  1260
  • The quality of purity is an endowment (settled) on the light of the moon, though its radiance is (falling) on the defilements of the way.

  • زان نجاسات ره و آلودگی  ** نور را حاصل نگردد بدرگی 
  • Malignity does not accrue to the light of the moon from those defilements of the way or from pollution.

  • ارجعی بشنود نور آفتاب  ** سوی اصل خویش باز آمد شتاب 
  • The light of the sun heard (the call) Return! and came back in haste to its source.