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1760-1769

  • آن یکی می‌گفت خوش بودی جهان  ** گر نبودی پای مرگ اندر میان  1760
  • A certain man was saying, “The world would be delightful, were it not for the intervention of death.”

  • آن دگر گفت ار نبودی مرگ هیچ  ** که نیرزیدی جهان پیچ‌پیچ 
  • The other said, “If there were no death, the tangled world would not be worth a straw.

  • خرمنی بودی به دشت افراشته  ** مهمل و ناکوفته بگذاشته 
  • It would be (like) a stack heaped up in the field and neglected and left unthreshed.

  • مرگ را تو زندگی پنداشتی  ** تخم را در شوره خاکی کاشتی 
  • You have supposed (what is really) death to be life: you have sown your seed in a barren soil.

  • عقل کاذب هست خود معکوس‌بین  ** زندگی را مرگ بیند ای غبین 
  • The false (discursive) reason, indeed, sees the reverse (of the truth): it sees life as death, O man of weak judgement.”

  • ای خدا بنمای تو هر چیز را  ** آنچنان که هست در خدعه‌سرا  1765
  • Do Thou, O God, show (unto us) everything as it really is in this house of illusion.

  • هیچ مرده نیست پر حسرت ز مرگ  ** حسرتش آنست کش کم بود برگ 
  • None that has died is filled with grief on account of death; his grief is caused by having too little provision (for the life hereafter);

  • ورنه از چاهی به صحرا اوفتاد  ** در میان دولت و عیش و گشاد 
  • Otherwise (he would not grieve, for) he has come from a dungeon into the open country amidst fortune and pleasure and delight;

  • زین مقام ماتم و ننگین مناخ  ** نقل افتادش به صحرای فراخ 
  • From this place of mourning and (this) narrow vale (of tribulation) he has been transported to the spacious plain.

  • مقعد صدقی نه ایوان دروغ  ** باده‌ی خاصی نه مستیی ز دوغ 
  • (’Tis) a seat of truth, not a palace of falsehood; a choice wine, not an intoxication with buttermilk.