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978-987

  • گل نماند خارها ماند سیاه  ** زرد و بی‌مغز آمده چون تل کاه 
  • The roses remain not; (only) the black thorns remain: it becomes pale and pithless like a heap of straw.

  • تا چه زلت کرد آن باغ ای خدا  ** که ازو این حله‌ها گردد جدا 
  • O God, I wonder what fault did that orchard commit, that these (beautiful) robes should be stripped from it.

  • خویشتن را دید و دید خویشتن  ** زهر قتالست هین ای ممتحن  980
  • “It paid regard to itself, and self-regard is a deadly poison. Beware, O thou who art put to the trial!”

  • شاهدی کز عشق او عالم گریست  ** عالمش می‌راند از خود جرم چیست 
  • The minion for love of whom the world wept—the world (now) is repulsing him from itself: what is (his) crime?

  • جرم آنک زیور عاریه بست  ** کرد دعوی کین حلل ملک منست 
  • “The crime is that he put on a borrowed adornment and pretended that these robes were his own property.

  • واستانیم آن که تا داند یقین  ** خرمن آن ماست خوبان دانه‌چین 
  • We take them back, in order that he may know for sure that the stack is Ours and the fair ones are (only) gleaners;

  • تا بداند کان حلل عاریه بود  ** پرتوی بود آن ز خورشید وجود 
  • That he may know that those robes were a loan: ’twas a ray from the Sun of Being.”

  • آن جمال و قدرت و فضل و هنر  ** ز آفتاب حسن کرد این سو سفر  985
  • (All) that beauty and power and virtue and knowledge have journeyed hither from the Sun of Excellence.

  • باز می‌گردند چون استارها  ** نور آن خورشید ازین دیوارها 
  • They, the light of that Sun, turn back again, like the stars, from these (bodily) walls.

  • پرتو خورشید شد وا جایگاه  ** ماند هر دیوار تاریک و سیاه 
  • (When) the Sunbeam has gone home, every wall is left dark and black.