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  • مرگ آشامان ز عشقش زنده‌اند  ** دل ز جان و آب جان بر کنده‌اند  4220
  • (But) those who quaff the cup of death are living through His love: they have torn their hearts away from life and the Water of Life.

  • آب عشق تو چو ما را دست داد  ** آب حیوان شد به پیش ما کساد 
  • When the water of Thy love gave us its hand (was gained by us), the Water of Life became worthless in our sight.

  • ز آب حیوان هست هر جان را نوی  ** لیک آب آب حیوانی توی 
  • Every soul derives freshness from the Water of Life, but Thou art the Water (Source) of the Water of Life.

  • هر دمی مرگی و حشری دادیم  ** تا بدیدم دست برد آن کرم 
  • Thou didst bestow on me a (spiritual) death and a resurrection continually, that I might experience the conquering power of that bounty (of Thine).

  • هم‌چو خفتن گشت این مردن مرا  ** ز اعتماد بعث کردن ای خدا 
  • This (bodily) dying became (as unformidable) to me as sleeping, from my confidence that Thou, O God, wouldst raise me from the dead.

  • هفت دریا هر دم ار گردد سراب  ** گوش گیری آوریش ای آب آب  4225
  • If the Seven Seas become a mirage at every moment, Thou wilt take it (the water) by the ear and bring it (back), O Water (Source) of the water.

  • عقل لرزان از اجل وان عشق شوخ  ** سنگ کی ترسد ز باران چون کلوخ 
  • Reason is trembling with fear of death, but Love is bold: how should the stone be afraid of rain as the clod (is)?

  • از صحاف مثنوی این پنجمست  ** بر بروج چرخ جان چون انجمست 
  • This is the Fifth of the Scrolls (Books) of the Mathnawí: it is like the stars in the zodiacal signs of the spiritual sky.

  • ره نیابد از ستاره هر حواس  ** جز که کشتیبان استاره‌شناس 
  • Not every sense can find its way by the star: (none can do so) except the mariner acquainted with the star.

  • جز نظاره نیست قسم دیگران  ** از سعودش غافلند و از قران 
  • The lot of the others is naught but looking (at it): they are ignorant of its auspiciousness and (fortunate) conjunction.

  • آشنایی گیر شبها تا به روز  ** با چنین استارهای دیوسوز  4230
  • During the nights till daybreak make thyself familiar with devil-burning stars like these,

  • هر یکی در دفع دیو بدگمان  ** هست نفط‌انداز قلعه‌ی آسمان 
  • Every one (of which) is hurling naphtha from the fortress of Heaven to drive away the evil-thinking devil.

  • اختر ار با دیو هم‌چون عقربست  ** مشتری را او ولی الاقربست 
  • To the devil the stars are (noxious) as a scorpion, (but) to the buyer (of Truth) it (the star) is the next of kin (the nearest and dearest).

  • قوس اگر از تیر دوزد دیو را  ** دلو پر آبست زرع و میو را 
  • If the Bow (Sagittarius) pierce the devil with an arrow, (yet) the Bucket (Aquarius) is full of water for the crops and fruit.

  • حوت اگرچه کشتی غی بشکند  ** دوست را چون ثور کشتی می‌کند 
  • Though the Fish (Pisces) wreck the ship of error, (yet) for the friend (of Truth) it is (ploughing and) sowing like the bull.

  • شمس اگر شب را بدرد چون اسد  ** لعل را زو خلعت اطلس رسد  4235
  • If the Sun rend Night to pieces, like a lion, (yet) there comes from it a satin robe of honour for the ruby.

  • هر وجودی کز عدم بنمود سر  ** بر یکی زهرست و بر دیگر شکر 
  • Every existence that emerged from non-existence is poison to one and sugar to another.

  • دوست شو وز خوی ناخوش شو بری  ** تا ز خمره‌ی زهر هم شکر خوری 
  • Be a friend (of Truth) and become quit of unsweet qualities, so that you may eat sugar even from a jar of poison.

  • زان نشد فاروق را زهری گزند  ** که بد آن تریاق فاروقیش قند 
  • A (deadly) poison did no harm to Fárúq (‘Umar) because to him the antidote, discrimination (fárúqí), was (sweet as) candy.