بعد نصف اللیل آمد یار او ** صادق الوعدانه آن دلدار او

بعد نصف اللیل آمد یار او ** صادق الوعدانه آن دلدار او 600

(Just) after midnight his friend, the charmer of his heart, arrived (punctually) like those who are true to their promise.

عاشق خود را فتاده خفته دید ** اندکی از آستین او درید

He found his lover lying asleep; (thereupon) he tore off a little piece of his (the lover's) sleeve

گردگانی چندش اندر جیب کرد ** که تو طفلی گیر این می‌باز نرد

And put some walnuts in his lap, saying, “Thou art a child: take these and play a game of dice.”

چون سحر از خواب عاشق بر جهید ** آستین و گردگانها را بدید

When at dawn the lover sprang up from sleep, he saw the (torn) sleeve and the walnuts.

گفت شاه ما همه صدق و وفاست ** آنچ بر ما می‌رسد آن هم ز ماست

He said, “Our king is entirely truth and loyalty: that (disgrace) which is coming upon us is from ourselves alone.”

ای دل بی‌خواب ما زین ایمنیم ** چون حرس بر بام چوبک می‌زنیم 605

O sleepless heart, we (true lovers) are secure from this: we, like guardsmen, are plying our rattles on the roof.

گردگان ما درین مطحن شکست ** هر چه گوییم از غم خود اندکست

Our walnuts are crushed in this mill: whatever we may tell of our anguish, ’tis (but) little.

عاذلا چند این صلای ماجرا ** پند کم ده بعد ازین دیوانه را

O railer, how long (will you continue to give) this invitation to (join in) the business (of the world)? Henceforth do not give advice to a madman.

من نخواهم عشوه‌ی هجران شنود ** آزمودم چند خواهم آزمود

I will not listen to deceitful talk of separation (from the Beloved): I have experienced it: how long shall I experience it?

هرچه غیر شورش و دیوانگیست ** اندرین ره دوری و بیگانگیست

In this Way everything except derangement and madness is (a cause of) farness and alienation (from Him).

هین بنه بر پایم آن زنجیر را ** که دریدم سلسله‌ی تدبیر را 610

Hark, put that fetter on my leg, for I have torn the chain of (rational) consideration to pieces.

غیر آن جعد نگار مقبلم ** گر دو صد زنجیر آری بگسلم

Though you bring two hundred fetters, I will snap (them all) except the curls of my auspicious Beauty.

عشق و ناموس ای برادر راست نیست ** بر رد ناموس ای عاشق مه‌ایست

Love and reputation, O brother, are not in accord: do not stand at the door of reputation, O lover.

وقت آن آمد که من عریان شوم ** نقش بگذارم سراسر جان شوم

The time is come for me to strip, to quit the (bodily) form and become wholly spirit.

ای عدو شرم و اندیشه بیا ** که دریدم پرده‌ی شرم و حیا

Come, O Enemy of shame and anxious thought, for I have rent the veil of shame and bashfulness.

ای ببسته خواب جان از جادوی ** سخت‌دل یارا که در عالم توی 615

O Thou who by Thy magic hast spell-bound the spirit's sleep, O hardhearted Beloved that Thou art in the world,

هین گلوی صبر گیر و می‌فشار ** تا خنک گردد دل عشق ای سوار

Hark, grip the throat of self-restraint and strangle it, in order that Love's heart may be made happy, O Cavalier!

تا نسوزم کی خنگ گردد دلش ** ای دل ما خاندان و منزلش

How should His heart be made happy till I burn? Oh, my heart is His home and dwelling-place.

خانه‌ی خود را همی‌سوزی بسوز ** کیست آن کس کو بگوید لایجوز

(If) Thou wilt burn Thy house, burn it! Who is he that will say, “’Tis not allowed”?

خوش بسوز این خانه را ای شر مست ** خانه‌ی عاشق چنین اولیترست

Burn this house well (and thoroughly), O furious Lion! The lover's house is better so.

بعد ازین این سوز را قبله کنم ** زانک شمعم من بسوزش روشنم 620

Henceforth I will make this burning my qibla (aim), for I am (like) the candle: I am (made) bright by burning.

خواب را بگذار امشب ای پدر ** یک شبی بر کوی بی‌خوابان گذر

Abandon sleep to-night, O father: for one night traverse the district of the sleepless.

بنگر اینها را که مجنون گشته‌اند ** هم‌چو پروانه بوصلت کشته‌اند

Look on these (lovers) who have become frenzied and been killed, like moths, by (their) union (with the Beloved).

بنگر این کشتی خلقان غرق عشق ** اژدهایی گشت گویی حلق عشق

Look on this ship of (God's) creatures (and see how it is) sunk in Love: you would say that Love's throat has become a dragon (to swallow it)—

اژدهایی ناپدید دلربا ** عقل هم‌چون کوه را او کهربا

An invisible heart-ravishing dragon: it is a magnet to draw (towards itself) the reason that is (firm) like a mountain.