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  • پس عدم گردم عدم چون ارغنون ** گویدم که انا الیه راجعون
  • Then I shall become non-existence: non-existence saith to me, (in tones loud) as an organ, Verily, unto Him shall we return.

  • مرگ دان آنک اتفاق امتست ** کاب حیوانی نهان در ظلمتست
  • Know death to be (the thing signified by) what the (Mohammedan) community are agreed upon, namely, that the Water of Life is hidden in the (Land of) Darkness.

  • همچو نیلوفر برو زین طرف جو ** همچو مستسقی حریص و مرگ‌جو
  • Grow from this river-bank, like the water-lily, greedy and craving for death as the sufferer from dropsy.

  • مرگ او آبست و او جویای آب ** می‌خورد والله اعلم بالصواب
  • The water is death to him, and (yet) he is seeking the water and drinking it— and God best knoweth the right course.

  • ای فسرده عاشق ننگین نمد ** کو ز بیم جان ز جانان می‌رمد 3910
  • Oh, the cold lover, clad in the felt (garment) of shame, who from fear of (losing) his life is fleeing from the Beloved!

  • سوی تیغ عشقش ای ننگ زنان ** صد هزاران جان نگر دستک‌زنان
  • O thou disgrace (even) to women, behold hundreds of thousands of souls clapping their hands (and rushing) towards the sword of His love!

  • جوی دیدی کوزه اندر جوی ریز ** آب را از جوی کی باشد گریز
  • Thou hast seen the river: spill thy jug in the river: how should the water take flight from the river?

  • آب کوزه چون در آب جو شود ** محو گردد در وی و جو او شود
  • When the water in the jug goes into the river-water, it disappears in it, and it becomes the river.

  • وصف او فانی شد و ذاتش بقا ** زین سپس نه کم شود نه بدلقا
  • His (the lover's) attributes have passed away, and his essence remains: after this, he does not dwindle or become ill-favoured.

  • خویش را بر نخل او آویختم ** عذر آن را که ازو بگریختم 3915
  • I have hanged myself on His palm-tree in excuse for having fled from Him.”

  • رسیدن آن عاشق به معشوق خویش چون دست از جان خود بشست
  • How that lover reached his Beloved when he washed his hands of (gave up) his life.

  • همچو گویی سجده کن بر رو و سر ** جانب آن صدر شد با چشم تر
  • Prostrating himself on face and head, like a ball, he went with wet eyes towards the Sadr (Prince).

  • جمله خلقان منتظر سر در هوا ** کش بسوزد یا برآویزد ورا
  • All the people were waiting, their heads in the air, (to see) whether he would burn or hang him.

  • این زمان این احمق یک لخت را ** آن نماید که زمان بدبخت را
  • “Now” (they said) “he will show to this simpleton that which Time (Fortune) shows to the unfortunate.

  • همچو پروانه شرر را نور دید ** احمقانه در فتاد از جان برید
  • Like the moth, he (the lover) deemed the (fiery) sparks to be the light: foolishly he fell in and was cut off from (deprived of) life.”

  • لیک شمع عشق چون آن شمع نیست ** روشن اندر روشن اندر روشنیست 3920
  • But the candle of Love is not like that (external) candle: it is radiance in radiance in radiance.

  • او به عکس شمعهای آتشیست ** می‌نماید آتش و جمله خوشیست
  • It is the reverse of the fiery candles: it seems to be fire, while (in reality) it is all sweetness.

  • صفت آن مسجد کی عاشق‌کش بود و آن عاشق مرگ‌جوی لا ابالی کی درو مهمان شد
  • Description of the lover-killing mosque and of the death-seeking reckless lover who became a guest there.

  • یک حکایت گوش کن ای نیک‌پی ** مسجدی بد بر کنار شهر ری
  • Lend ear to a story, O well-conducted man! There was a mosque on the outskirts of the city of Rayy.

  • هیچ کس در وی نخفتی شب ز بیم ** که نه فرزندش شدی آن شب یتیم
  • No one ever slept the night there but on the same night (he died) from terror (and) his children became orphans.

  • بس که اندر وی غریب عور رفت ** صبحدم چون اختران در گور رفت
  • Many the naked (destitute) stranger that went into it (at nightfall) and went at dawn, like the stars, into the grave.

  • خویشتن را نیک ازین آگاه کن ** صبح آمد خواب را کوتاه کن 3925
  • Make thyself very attentive to this (tale)! The dawn is come, cut short thy slumber!

  • هر کسی گفتی که پریانند تند ** اندرو مهمان کشان با تیغ کند
  • Every one used to say that in it there were fierce Jinnís who killed the guests with blunt swords.

  • آن دگر گفتی که سحرست و طلسم ** کین رصد باشد عدو جان و خصم
  • Another would say, “It is the magic and talisman, for this enchantment is the foe and enemy of life.”

  • آن دگر گفتی که بر نه نقش فاش ** بر درش کای میهمان اینجا مباش
  • Another would say, “Put an inscription (notice) conspicuously on its door—‘O guest, do not stay here.

  • شب مخسپ اینجا اگر جان بایدت ** ورنه مرگ اینجا کمین بگشایدت
  • Do not sleep the night here, if you want to live; otherwise, death will unmask an ambush for you in this place.’”

  • وان یکی گفتی که شب قفلی نهید ** غافلی کاید شما کم ره دهید 3930
  • And another would say, “Bolt (the door) at night, (and when) a heedless person comes, do not admit him.”

  • مهمان آمدن در آن مسجد
  • How the guest came into the mosque.

  • تا یکی مهمان در آمد وقت شب ** کو شنیده بود آن صیت عجب
  • (So it continued) till a guest arrived at nightfall who had heard that marvellous rumour.

  • از برای آزمون می‌آزمود ** زانک بس مردانه و جان سیر بود
  • He was testing (it) in order to put (it) to the proof, for he was very valiant and surfeited with life.

  • گفت کم گیرم سر و اشکمبه‌ای ** رفته گیر از گنج جان یک حبه‌ای
  • He said (to himself), “I take little account of a (sheep's) head and belly: suppose that one grain is gone from the spirit's treasure, (what does it matter?)

  • صورت تن گو برو من کیستم ** نقش کم ناید چو من باقیستم
  • Let the bodily form go: who am I (in reality)? Is not the (bodily) figure of small account when I am enduring for ever?

  • چون نفخت بودم از لطف خدا ** نفخ حق باشم ز نای تن جدا 3935
  • Since by the grace of God the (Divine) spirit was breathed into me, I am the breath of God (which is) kept apart from the windpipe of the body,

  • تا نیفتد بانگ نفخش این طرف ** تا رهد آن گوهر از تنگین صدف
  • To the end that the sound of His breathing should not fall in this direction, and that that (spiritual) pearl should escape from the narrow (bodily) shell.

  • چون تمنوا موت گفت ای صادقین ** صادقم جان را برافشانم برین
  • Since God said, ‘Desire death, O ye that are sincere,’ I am sincere: I will lavish my soul upon this (I will sacrifice my life for this object).”

  • ملامت کردن اهل مسجد مهمان عاشق را از شب خفتن در آنجا و تهدید کردن مرورا
  • How the people of the mosque blamed the lover-guest for (his intention of) sleeping the night there and threatened him.

  • قوم گفتندش که هین اینجا مخسپ ** تا نکوبد جانستانت همچو کسپ
  • The people said to him, “Beware! Do not sleep here, lest the Taker of the soul pound thee like the dregs of sesame-grain,

  • که غریبی و نمی‌دانی ز حال ** کاندرین جا هر که خفت آمد زوال
  • For thou art a stranger and ignorant of the fact that any one who sleeps in this place perishes.

  • اتفاقی نیست این ما بارها ** دیده‌ایم و جمله اصحاب نهی 3940
  • This is not an (accidental) occurrence: we and all those possessed of intelligence have ofttimes witnessed this.

  • هر که آن مسجد شبی مسکن شدش ** نیم‌شب مرگ هلاهل آمدش
  • To whomsoever that mosque gave lodging for a single night, poisonous death came to him at midnight.

  • از یکی ما تابه صد این دیده‌ایم ** نه به تقلید از کسی بشنیده‌ایم
  • We have seen this not (only) once but a hundred times: we have not heard it at second-hand from any one.

  • گفت الدین نصیحه آن رسول ** آن نصیحت در لغت ضد غلول
  • The Prophet said, ‘The (Mohammedan) religion is (consists in) sincerity (nasíhat)’: that nasíhat etymologically is the opposite of ghulúl (unfaithfulness).

  • این نصیحت راستی در دوستی ** در غلولی خاین و سگ‌پوستی
  • This nasíhat is ‘to be true in friendship’: in an act of ghulúl you are treacherous and currish.

  • بی خیانت این نصیحت از وداد ** می‌نماییمت مگرد از عقل و داد 3945
  • We are showing this sincerity towards thee, without treachery, from (motives of) love: do not turn away from reason and justice!”

  • جواب گفتن عاشق عاذلان را
  • The lover's reply to those who chid him.

  • گفت او ای ناصحان من بی ندم ** از جهان زندگی سیر آمدم
  • He said, “O sincere advisers, I have become unrepentantly weary of the world of life.

  • منبلی‌ام زخم جو و زخم‌خواه ** عافیت کم جوی از منبل براه
  • I am an idle vagabond, seeking blows and desiring blows: do not seek rectitude from the vagabond on the road.

  • منبلی نی کو بود خود برگ‌جو ** منبلی‌ام لاابالی مرگ‌جو
  • (I am) not the vagabond who in sooth is a seeker of provender: I am the reckless vagabond (who is) the seeker of death.

  • منبلی نی کو به کف پول آورد ** منبلی چستی کزین پل بگذرد
  • (I am) not the vagabond who gets small money into his palm, (but) the nimble vagabond who would cross this bridge (to the world hereafter)—

  • آن نه کو بر هر دکانی بر زند ** بل جهد از کون و کانی بر زند 3950
  • Not the one who cleaves to every shop; nay, but (the one who) springs away from (phenomenal) existence and strikes upon a mine (of reality).

  • مرگ شیرین گشت و نقلم زین سرا ** چون قفص هشتن پریدن مرغ را
  • Death and migration from this (earthly) abode has become as sweet to me as leaving the cage and flying (is sweet) to the (captive) bird—

  • آن قفص که هست عین باغ در ** مرغ می‌بیند گلستان و شجر
  • The cage that is in the very midst of the garden, (so that) the bird beholds the rose-beds and the trees,

  • جوق مرغان از برون گرد قفص ** خوش همی‌خوانند ز آزادی قصص
  • (While) outside, round the cage, a multitude of birds is sweetly chanting tales of liberty:

  • مرغ را اندر قفص زان سبزه‌زار ** نه خورش ماندست و نه صبر و قرار
  • At (the sight of) that verdant place neither (desire for) food remains to the bird in the cage, nor patience and rest,

  • سر ز هر سوراخ بیرون می‌کند ** تا بود کین بند از پا برکند 3955
  • (But) it puts out its head through every hole, that perchance it may tear off this fetter from its leg.