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ای دریغا مرغ خوش الحان من ** راح روح و روضه و ریحان من
- Oh, alas for my melodious bird, the wine of my spirit and my garden and my sweet basil!
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گر سلیمان را چنین مرغی بدی ** کی خود او مشغول آن مرغان شدی
- Had Solomon possessed a bird like this, how indeed should he have become occupied with those (other) birds?
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ای دریغا مرغ کارزان یافتم ** زود روی از روی او بر تافتم
- Oh, alas for the bird which I gained cheaply, and (so) soon turned my face away from her countenance!
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ای زبان تو بس زیانی بر وری ** چون تویی گویا چه گویم من ترا
- O tongue, thou art a great damage (very injurious) to mankind, (but) since thou art speaking, what should I say to thee?
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ای زبان هم آتش و هم خرمنی ** چند این آتش در این خرمن زنی 1700
- O tongue, thou art both the fire and the stack: how long wilt thou dart this fire upon this stack?
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در نهان جان از تو افغان میکند ** گر چه هر چه گوییاش آن میکند
- Secretly my soul is groaning because of thee, although it is doing whatsoever thou biddest it.
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ای زبان هم گنج بیپایان تویی ** ای زبان هم رنج بیدرمان تویی
- O tongue, thou art a treasure without end. O tongue, thou art also a disease without remedy.
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هم صفیر و خدعهی مرغان تویی ** هم انیس وحشت هجران تویی
- Thou art at once a whistle and decoy for birds, and a comforter in the desolation of absence (from the Beloved).
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چند امانم میدهی ای بیامان ** ای تو زه کرده به کین من کمان
- How long wilt thou grant me mercy, O merciless one, O thou who hast drawn the bow to take vengeance on me?
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نک بپرانیده ای مرغ مرا ** در چراگاه ستم کم کن چرا 1705
- Lo, thou hast made my bird fly away. Do not browse (any more) in the pasture of injustice!
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یا جواب من بگو یا داد ده ** یا مرا ز اسباب شادی یاد ده
- Either answer me or give redress or mention to me (what will be) the means of (producing) joy.
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ای دریغا نور ظلمت سوز من ** ای دریغا صبح روز افروز من
- Oh, alas for my darkness-consuming light! Oh, alas for my day-enkindling dawn!
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ای دریغا مرغ خوش پرواز من ** ز انتها پریده تا آغاز من
- Oh, alas for my bird of goodly flight, that has flown from my end (my last state) to my beginning (my first state).
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عاشق رنج است نادان تا ابد ** خیز لا أقسم بخوان تا فی کبد
- The ignorant man is in love with pain unto everlasting. Arise and read (in the Qur’án) I swear as far as (the words) in trouble.
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از کبد فارغ بدم با روی تو ** وز زبد صافی بدم در جوی تو 1710
- With thy face I was free from trouble, and in thy river I was unsoiled by froth.
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این دریغاها خیال دیدن است ** وز وجود نقد خود ببریدن است
- These cries of ‘Alas’ are (caused by) the phantasy (idea) of seeing (the Beloved) and (by) separation from my present existence.
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غیرت حق بود و با حق چاره نیست ** کو دلی کز حکم حق صد پاره نیست
- ’Twas the jealousy of God, and there is no device against God: where is a heart that is not (shattered) in a hundred pieces by God's love?
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غیرت آن باشد که او غیر همه ست ** آن که افزون از بیان و دمدمه ست
- The jealousy (of God) is this, that He is other than all things, that He is beyond explanation and the noise of words.
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ای دریغا اشک من دریا بدی ** تا نثار دل بر زیبا بدی
- Oh, alas! Would that my tears were an ocean, that they might be strewn as an offering to the fair charmer!
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طوطی من مرغ زیرکسار من ** ترجمان فکرت و اسرار من 1715
- My parrot, my clever-headed bird, the interpreter of my thought and inmost consciousness,
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هر چه روزی داد و ناداد آیدم ** او ز اول گفته تا یاد آیدم
- She has told me from the first, that I might remember it, whatsoever should come to me as my allotted portion of right and wrong.”
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طوطیی کاید ز وحی آواز او ** پیش از آغاز وجود آغاز او
- The parrot whose voice comes from (Divine) inspiration and whose beginning was before the beginning of existence—
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اندرون تست آن طوطی نهان ** عکس او را دیده تو بر این و آن
- That parrot is hidden within thee: thou hast seen the reflexion of her upon this and that (the things of the phenomenal world).
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میبرد شادیت را تو شاد از او ** میپذیری ظلم را چون داد از او
- She takes away thy joy, and because of her thou art rejoicing: thou receivest injury from her as though it were justice.
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ای که جان را بهر تن میسوختی ** سوختی جان را و تن افروختی 1720
- O thou who wert burning the soul for the body's sake, thou hast burned (destroyed) the soul and illumined (delighted) the body.