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595-604

  • They all said: “O vizier, it is not disbelief: our words are not as the words of strangers. 595
  • جمله گفتند ای وزیر انکار نیست ** گفت ما چون گفتن اغیار نیست‌‌

  • The tears of our eyes are running because of our separation from thee; sigh after sigh is going (up) from the midst of our souls.
  • اشک دیده‌‌ست از فراق تو دوان ** آه آه است از میان جان روان‌‌

  • A babe does not contend with its nurse, but it weeps, although it knows neither evil nor good.
  • طفل با دایه نه استیزد و لیک ** گرید او گر چه نه بد داند نه نیک‌‌

  • We are as the harp and thou art striking (it with) the plectrum (playing on it): the lamentation is not from us, it is thou that art making lamentation.
  • ما چون چنگیم و تو زخمه می‌‌زنی ** زاری از ما نی تو زاری می‌‌کنی‌‌

  • We are as the flute, and the music in us is from thee; we are as the mountain, and the echo in us is from thee.
  • ما چو ناییم و نوا در ما ز تست ** ما چو کوهیم و صدا در ما ز تست‌‌

  • We are as pieces of chess (engaged) in victory and defeat: our victory and defeat is from thee, O thou whose qualities are comely! 600
  • ما چو شطرنجیم اندر برد و مات ** برد و مات ما ز تست ای خوش صفات‌‌

  • Who are we, O thou soul of our souls, that we should remain in being beside thee?
  • ما که باشیم ای تو ما را جان جان ** تا که ما باشیم با تو در میان‌‌

  • We and our existences are (really) non-existences: thou art the absolute Being which manifests the perishable (causes phenomena to appear).
  • ما عدمهاییم و هستیهای ما ** تو وجود مطلقی فانی نما

  • We all are lions, but lions on a banner: because of the wind they are rushing onward from moment to moment.
  • ما همه شیران ولی شیر علم ** حمله‌‌شان از باد باشد دم‌‌به‌‌دم‌‌

  • Their onward rush is visible, and the wind is unseen: may that which is unseen never fail!
  • حمله شان پیدا و ناپیداست باد ** آن که ناپیداست هرگز کم مباد