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1775-1824

  • چون ننالم تلخ از دستان او ** چون نیم در حلقه‌‌ی مستان او 1775
  • How should I not wail bitterly on account of His deceit, since I am not in the circle of those intoxicated with Him?

  • چون نباشم همچو شب بی‌‌روز او ** بی‌‌وصال روی روز افروز او
  • How shall I not be like night, without His day and without the favour of His day-illuming countenance?

  • ناخوش او خوش بود در جان من ** جان فدای یار دل رنجان من‌‌
  • His unsweetness is sweet in my soul: may my soul be sacrificed to the Beloved who grieves my heart!

  • عاشقم بر رنج خویش و درد خویش ** بهر خشنودی شاه فرد خویش‌‌
  • I am in love with my grief and pain for the sake of pleasing my peerless King.

  • خاک غم را سرمه سازم بهر چشم ** تا ز گوهر پر شود دو بحر چشم‌‌
  • I make the dust of sorrow a salve for mine eye, that the two seas of mine eyes may be filled with pearls.

  • اشک کان از بهر او بارند خلق ** گوهر است و اشک پندارند خلق‌‌ 1780
  • The tears which people shed for His sake are pearls—and people think they are tears.

  • من ز جان جان شکایت می‌‌کنم ** من نیم شاکی روایت می‌‌کنم‌‌
  • I am complaining of the Soul of the soul, (but in truth) I am not complaining: I am (only) relating.

  • دل همی‌‌گوید کز او رنجیده‌‌ام ** وز نفاق سست می‌‌خندیده‌‌ام‌‌
  • My heart is saying, “I am tormented by Him,” and I have (long) been laughing at its poor pretence.

  • راستی کن ای تو فخر راستان ** ای تو صدر و من درت را آستان‌‌
  • Do (me) right, O glory of the righteous, O Thou who art the dais, and I the threshold of Thy door!

  • آستان و صدر در معنی کجاست ** ما و من کو آن طرف کان یار ماست‌‌
  • Where are threshold and dais in reality? In the quarter where our Beloved is, where are “we” and “I”?

  • ای رهیده جان تو از ما و من ** ای لطیفه‌‌ی روح اندر مرد و زن‌‌ 1785
  • O Thou whose soul is free from “we” and “I,” O Thou who art the subtle essence of the spirit in man and woman,

  • مرد و زن چون یک شود آن یک تویی ** چون که یک جا محو شد آنک تویی‌‌
  • When man and woman become one, Thou art that One; when the units are wiped out, lo, Thou art that (Unity).

  • این من و ما بهر آن بر ساختی ** تا تو با خود نرد خدمت باختی‌‌
  • Thou didst contrive this “I” and “we” in order that Thou mightst play the game of worship with Thyself,

  • تا من و توها همه یک جان شوند ** عاقبت مستغرق جانان شوند
  • That all “I's” and “thou's” should become one soul and at last should be submerged in the Beloved.

  • این همه هست و بیا ای امر کن ** ای منزه از بیان و از سخن‌‌
  • All this is (true), and do Thou come, O Giver of the command, O Thou who transcendest “Come” and (all) speech!

  • جسم جسمانه تواند دیدنت ** در خیال آرد غم و خندیدنت‌‌ 1790
  • The body can see Thee (only) in bodily fashion: it fancies (pictures to itself) Thy sadness or laughter.

  • دل که او بسته‌‌ی غم و خندیدن است ** تو مگو کاو لایق آن دیدن است‌‌
  • Do not say that the heart that is bound (conditioned) by (such bodily attributes as) sadness and laughter is worthy of seeing Thee (as Thou really art).

  • آن که او بسته‌‌ی غم و خنده بود ** او بدین دو عاریت زنده بود
  • He who is bound by sadness and laughter is living by means of these two borrowed (transient and unreal) things.

  • باغ سبز عشق کاو بی‌‌منتهاست ** جز غم و شادی در او بس میوه‌‌هاست‌‌
  • In the verdant garden of Love, which is without end, there are many fruits besides sorrow and joy.

  • عاشقی زین هر دو حالت برتر است ** بی‌‌بهار و بی‌‌خزان سبز و تر است‌‌
  • Love is higher than these two states of feeling: without spring and without autumn it is (ever) green and fresh.

  • ده زکات روی خوب ای خوب رو ** شرح جان شرحه شرحه باز گو 1795
  • Pay the tithe on Thy fair face, O Beauteous One: relate the story of the soul that is rent in pieces,

  • کز کرشم غمزه‌‌ی غمازه‌‌ای ** بر دلم بنهاد داغی تازه‌‌ای‌‌
  • For by the coquetry of a glance One who is given to glancing amorously has branded my heart anew.

  • من حلالش کردم از خونم بریخت ** من همی‌‌گفتم حلال او می‌‌گریخت‌‌
  • I absolved Him if He shed my blood: I was saying, “It is lawful (I absolve Thee),” and He was fleeing (from me).

  • چون گریزانی ز ناله‌‌ی خاکیان ** غم چه ریزی بر دل غمناکیان‌‌
  • Since Thou art fleeing from the lament of those who are (as) dust, why pourest Thou sorrow on the hearts of the sorrowful?

  • ای که هر صبحی که از مشرق بتافت ** همچو چشمه‌‌ی مشرقت در جوش یافت‌‌
  • O Thou, whom every dawn that shone from the East found overflowing (with abundant grace) like the bright fountain (of the sun),

  • چون بهانه دادی این شیدات را ** ای بهانه شکر لبهات را 1800
  • How didst Thou give (nothing but) evasion to Thy frenzied lover, O Thou the sugar of whose lips hath no price?

  • ای جهان کهنه را تو جان نو ** از تن بی‌‌جان و دل افغان شنو
  • O Thou who art a new soul to the old world, hear the cry (that comes) from my body (which is) without soul and heart.

  • شرح گل بگذار از بهر خدا ** شرح بلبل گو که شد از گل جدا
  • Leave the tale of the Rose! For God's sake set forth the tale of the Nightingale that is parted from the Rose!

  • از غم و شادی نباشد جوش ما ** با خیال و وهم نبود هوش ما
  • Our emotion is not caused by grief and joy, our consciousness is not related to fancy and imagination.

  • حالتی دیگر بود کان نادر است ** تو مشو منکر که حق بس قادر است‌‌
  • There is another state (of consciousness), which is rare: do not thou disbelieve, for God is very mighty.

  • تو قیاس از حالت انسان مکن ** منزل اندر جور و در احسان مکن‌‌ 1805
  • Do not judge from the (normal) state of man, do not abide in wrong-doing and in well-doing.

  • جور و احسان رنج و شادی حادث است ** حادثان میرند و حقشان وارث است‌‌
  • Wrong-doing and well-doing, grief and joy, are things that come into existence; those who come into existence die; God is their heir.

  • صبح شد ای صبح را پشت و پناه ** عذر مخدومی حسام الدین بخواه‌‌
  • ’Tis dawn. O Thou who art the Dawn of the dawn and its Refuge, ask pardon (for me) of my Lord Husámu’ddín!

  • عذر خواه عقل کل و جان تویی ** جان جان و تابش مرجان تویی‌‌
  • Thou art He who asketh pardon of the Universal Mind and Soul, Thou art the Soul of the soul and the Splendour of the coral.

  • تافت نور صبح و ما از نور تو ** در صبوحی با می منصور تو
  • The light of dawn has shone forth, and from Thy light we are engaged in drinking the morning-drink with the wine of Thy Mansúr.

  • داده‌‌ی تو چون چنین دارد مرا ** باده که بود کاو طرب آرد مرا 1810
  • Inasmuch as Thy gift keeps me thus (enravished), who (what) is (other) wine that it should bring me rapture?

  • باده در جوشش گدای جوش ماست ** چرخ در گردش گدای هوش ماست‌‌
  • Wine in ferment is a beggar suing for our ferment; Heaven in revolution is a beggar suing for our consciousness.

  • باده از ما مست شد نی ما از او ** قالب از ما هست شد نی ما از او
  • Wine became intoxicated with us, not we with it; the body came into being from us, not we from it.

  • ما چو زنبوریم و قالبها چو موم ** خانه خانه کرده قالب را چو موم‌‌
  • We are as bees, and bodies are as wax (honeycomb): we have made the body, cell by cell, like wax.

  • رجوع به حکایت خواجه‌‌ی تاجر
  • Reverting to the tale of the merchant who went to trade (in India).

  • بس دراز است این حدیث خواجه گو ** تا چه شد احوال آن مرد نکو
  • This (discourse) is very long. Tell the story of the merchant, that we may see what happened to that good man.

  • خواجه اندر آتش و درد و حنین ** صد پراکنده همی‌‌گفت این چنین‌‌ 1815
  • The merchant in fire (burning grief) and anguish and yearning was uttering a hundred distracted phrases like this,

  • گه تناقض گاه ناز و گه نیاز ** گاه سودای حقیقت گه مجاز
  • Now self-contradiction, now disdain, now supplication, now passion for reality, now metaphor (unreality).

  • مرد غرقه گشته جانی می‌‌کند ** دست را در هر گیاهی می‌‌زند
  • The drowning man suffers an agony of soul and clutches at every straw.

  • تا کدامش دست گیرد در خطر ** دست و پایی می‌‌زند از بیم سر
  • For fear of (losing) his head (life), he flings about (both) hand and foot to see whether any one will take his hand (help him) in peril.

  • دوست دارد یار این آشفتگی ** کوشش بی‌‌هوده به از خفتگی‌‌
  • The Friend loves this agitation: it is better to struggle vainly than to lie still.

  • آن که او شاه است او بی‌‌کار نیست ** ناله از وی طرفه کاو بیمار نیست‌‌ 1820
  • He who is the King (of all) is not idle, (though) complaint from Him would be a marvel, for He is not ill.

  • بهر این فرمود رحمان ای پسر ** کل يوم هو فی شأن ای پسر
  • For this reason said the Merciful (God), O son, “Every day He is (busy) in an affair,” O son.

  • اندر این ره می‌‌تراش و می‌‌خراش ** تا دم آخر دمی فارغ مباش‌‌
  • In this Way be thou ever scraping and scratching (exerting thyself to the utmost): until thy last breath do not be unoccupied for a moment,

  • تا دم آخر دمی آخر بود ** که عنایت با تو صاحب سر بود
  • So that thy last breath may be a last breath in which the (Divine) favour is thy bosom-friend.

  • هر چه می‌‌کوشند اگر مرد و زن است ** گوش و چشم شاه جان بر روزن است‌‌
  • Whatsoever they strive (to do), whether man or woman, the ear and eye of the soul's King are at the window.

  • برون انداختن مرد تاجر طوطی را از قفس و پریدن طوطی مرده‌‌
  • How the merchant cast the parrot out of the cage and how the dead parrot flew away.