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  • بر تو گر ده‌گون موکل آمدی ** عقل بایستی کز ایشان کم زدی
  • Had there been ten sorts of custodians over thee, intelligence would have been needed in order that thou might'st become quit of them.

  • چون موکل نیست بر تو هیچ‌کس ** از چه بسته گشت بر تو پیش و پس
  • Since no one is a custodian over thee, wherefore have the future and the past become sealed to thee?”

  • عشق پنهان کرده بود او را اسیر ** آن موکل را نمی‌دید آن نذیر 3820
  • Secret love had made him (the Wakíl) captive: the warner (his critic) was not seeing that custodian.

  • هر موکل را موکل مختفیست ** ورنه او در بند سگ طبعی ز چیست
  • Every custodian's custodian is hidden; else, wherefore is he (the wicked custodian) in thrall to (his) currish nature?

  • خشم شاه عشق بر جانش نشست ** بر عوانی و سیه‌روییش بست
  • The anger of Love, the King, settled upon his soul and chained him to the (base) office of a myrmidon and to ignominy.

  • می‌زند او را که هین او رابزن ** زان عوانان نهان افغان من
  • It (anger) is striking him and saying, “Hark, strike him (thy captive)!” Woe is me on account of those hidden myrmidons.

  • هرکه بینی در زیانی می‌رود ** گرچه تنها با عوانی می‌رود
  • Whomsoever you see going in a (path of) detriment, he, though (apparently) alone, is going along with a (hidden) myrmidon.

  • گر ازو واقف بدی افغان زدی ** پیش آن سلطان سلطانان شدی 3825
  • If he were aware of him, he would cry out in distress and go into the presence of the King of kings,

  • ریختی بر سر به پیش شاه خاک ** تا امان دیدی ز دیو سهمناک
  • And scatter earth on his head before the King, that he might find security from the frightful Devil.

  • میر دیدی خویش را ای کم ز مور ** زان ندیدی آن موکل را تو کور
  • (But) you, O less than an ant, deemed yourself a prince: hence, blind (as you are), you did not see that custodian.

  • غره گشتی زین دروغین پر و بال ** پر و بالی کو کشد سوی وبال
  • You were deluded by these false wings and plumes—the wings and plumes that lead to woe.

  • پر سبک دارد ره بالا کند ** چون گل‌آلو شد گرانیها کند
  • (If) he keep his wings light (unencumbered), he journeys upward; when he becomes defiled with earth, he makes heavinesses (which weigh him down).

  • لاابالی گفتن عاشق ناصح و عاذل را از سر عشق
  • How the lover, impelled by love, said “I don't care” to the person who counselled and scolded him.

  • گفت ای ناصح خمش کن چند چند ** پند کم ده زانک بس سختست بند 3830
  • He said, “O counsellor, be silent! How long, how long (wilt thou chide)? Do not give advice, for the bonds (on me) are very grievous.

  • سخت‌تر شد بند من از پند تو ** عشق را نشناخت دانشمند تو
  • My bonds are more grievous than thy advice: thy doctor (who taught thee) was not acquainted with love.

  • آن طرف که عشق می‌افزود درد ** بوحنیفه و شافعی درسی نکرد
  • In that quarter where love was increasing (my) pain, Bú Hanífa and Sháfi‘í gave no instruction.

  • تو مکن تهدید از کشتن که من ** تشنه‌ی زارم به خون خویشتن
  • Do not thou threaten me with being killed, for I thirst lamentably for mine own blood.”

  • عاشقان را هر زمانی مردنیست ** مردن عشاق خود یک نوع نیست
  • For lovers, there is a dying at every moment: verily, the dying of lovers is not of one sort.

  • او دو صد جان دارد از جان هدی ** وآن دوصد را می‌کند هر دم فدی 3835
  • He (the lover) hath two hundred souls (lives) from the Soul of Guidance, and those two hundred he is sacrificing at every instant.

  • هر یکی جان را ستاند ده بها ** از نبی خوان عشرة امثالها
  • For each soul (life) he receives ten as its price: read from the Qur’án “ten like unto them.”

  • گر بریزد خون من آن دوست‌رو ** پای‌کوبان جان برافشانم برو
  • If that One of friendly countenance shed my blood, dancing (in triumph) I will strew (lavish) my soul (life) upon Him.

  • آزمودم مرگ من در زندگیست ** چون رهم زین زندگی پایندگیست
  • I have tried it: my death is (consists) in life: when I escape from this life, ’tis to endure for ever.

  • اقتلونی اقتلونی یا ثقات ** ان فی قتلی حیاتا فی حیات
  • “Kill me, kill me, O trusty friends! Lo, in my being killed is life on life.”

  • یا منیر الخد یا روح البقا ** اجتذب روحی وجد لی باللقا 3840
  • O Thou that makest the cheek radiant, O Spirit of everlastingness, draw my spirit to Thyself and generously bestow on me the meeting (with Thee).

  • لی حبیب حبه یشوی الحشا ** لو یشا یمشی علی عینی مشی
  • I have a Beloved whose love roasts the bowels (of my heart): if He wished to walk upon mine eye, He would walk (upon it, and be welcome).

  • پارسی گو گرچه تازی خوشترست ** عشق را خود صد زبان دیگرست
  • Speak Persian, though Arabic is sweeter: Love indeed hath a hundred other tongues (besides these two).