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  • نبض عاشق بی ادب بر می‌جهد ** خویش را در کفه‌ی شه می‌نهد
  • The lover's pulse bounds up without reverence, he lays himself on the scale of the King's balance.

  • بی‌ادب‌تر نیست کس زو در جهان ** با ادب‌تر نیست کس زو در نهان
  • None is more irreverent than he in the world (outwardly); none is more reverent than he in secret (inwardly).

  • هم بنسبت دان وفاق ای منتجب ** این دو ضد با ادب با بی‌ادب 3680
  • Know, O chosen one, that these two opposites also, “reverent” and “irreverent,” are reconciled by means of relation.

  • بی‌ادب باشد چو ظاهر بنگری ** که بود دعوی عشقش هم‌سری
  • He (the lover) is irreverent when you regard the outward aspect, for his claim of love is (involves) equality (with the Beloved);

  • چون به باطن بنگری دعوی کجاست ** او و دعوی پیش آن سلطان فناست
  • (But) when you regard the inward aspect, where is the claim? He and (his) claim are naughted in the presence of that Sultan.

  • مات زید زید اگر فاعل بود ** لیک فاعل نیست کو عاطل بود
  • Máta Zaydun (Zayd died): if Zayd is the agent (grammatical subject), (yet) he is not the agent, for he is defunct.

  • او ز روی لفظ نحوی فاعلست ** ورنه او مفعول و موتش قاتلست
  • He is the agent (only) in respect of the grammatical expression; otherwise, he is the one acted upon (the object of the action), and Death is his slayer.

  • فاعل چه کو چنان مقهور شد ** فاعلیها جمله از وی دور شد 3685
  • What agent (is he), since he has been so overpowered and all the qualities of an agent have been removed from him?

  • قصه وکیل صدر جهان کی متهم شد و از بخارا گریخت از بیم جان باز عشقش کشید رو کشان کی کار جان سهل باشد عاشقان را
  • Story of the Sadr-i Jahán's Wakíl (minister), who fell under suspicion and fled from Bukhárá in fear of his life; then love drew him back irresistibly, for the matter of life is of small account to lovers.

  • در بخارا بنده‌ی صدر جهان ** متهم شد گشت از صدرش نهان
  • In Bukhárá the servant of the Sadr-i Jahán incurred suspicion and hid from his Sadr (prince).

  • مدت ده سال سرگردان بگشت ** گه خراسان گه کهستان گاه دشت
  • During ten years he roamed distractedly, now in Khurásán, now in the mountain-land, now in the desert.

  • از پس ده سال او از اشتیاق ** گشت بی‌طاقت ز ایام فراق
  • After ten years, through longing he became unable to endure the days of separation (from his beloved).

  • گفت تاب فرقتم زین پس نماند ** صبر کی داند خلاعت را نشاند
  • He said, “Henceforth I cannot bear to be parted (from him) any more: how can patience allay (the lover's) state of abandonment?”

  • از فراق این خاکها شوره بود ** آب زرد و گنده و تیره شود 3690
  • From separation these soils are nitrous (barren), and water becomes yellow and stinking and dark;

  • باد جان‌افزا وخم گردد وبا ** آتشی خاکستری گردد هبا
  • The life-increasing wind (air) becomes unhealthy and pestilential; a fire turns to ashes and dust.

  • باغ چون جنت شود دار المرض ** زرد و ریزان برگ او اندر حرض
  • The orchard which resembled Paradise becomes the abode of disease, (with) its leaves yellow and dropping in decay.

  • عقل دراک از فراق دوستان ** همچو تیرانداز اشکسته کمان
  • The penetrating intellect, through separation from its friends, (becomes) like an archer whose bow is broken.

  • دوزخ از فرقت چنان سوزان شدست ** پیر از فرقت چنان لرزان شدست
  • From separation Hell has become so burning; from separation the old man has become so trembling.

  • گر بگویم از فراق چون شرار ** تا قیامت یک بود از صد هزار 3695
  • If I should speak of separation, (which is) like sparks of fire, till the Resurrection, ’twould be (only) one (part) out of a hundred thousand.

  • پس ز شرح سوز او کم زن نفس ** رب سلم رب سلم گوی و بس
  • Therefore do not breathe (a word) in description of its burning: say only “Lord, save (me)! Lord, save (me)!”

  • هرچه از وی شاد گردی در جهان ** از فراق او بیندیش آن زمان
  • Everything by which you are rejoiced in the world—think at that time of the parting from it.

  • زانچ گشتی شاد بس کس شاد شد ** آخر از وی جست و همچون باد شد
  • Many a one has been gladdened by what made you glad: at last it escaped from him and became even as wind.

  • از تو هم بجهد تو دل بر وی منه ** پیش از آن کو بجهد از وی تو بجه
  • It will escape from you also: set not your heart upon it. Do you yourself escape from it before it escapes (from you).

  • پیدا شدن روح القدس بصورت آدمی بر مریم بوقت برهنگی و غسل کردن و پناه گرفتن بحق تعالی
  • The appearance of the Holy Spirit (Gabriel) in the shape of a man to Mary when she was undressed and washing herself, and how she took refuge with God.

  • همچو مریم گوی پیش از فوت ملک ** نقش را کالعوذ بالرحمن منک 3700
  • Before the slipping away of your possessions, say to the form (of created things), like Mary, “(I take) refuge from thee with the Merciful (God).”

  • دید مریم صورتی بس جان‌فزا ** جان‌فزایی دلربایی در خلا
  • Mary in her chamber saw a form that gave increase of life— a life-increasing, heart-ravishing one.

  • پیش او بر رست از روی زمین ** چون مه وخورشید آن روح الامین
  • That trusted Spirit rose up before her from the face of the earth, like the moon and the sun.