(That) you have given up your belongings and sleep and the (healthy) colour of your face, and sacrificed your head (life) and become as (thin as) a hair;
رختها دادی و خواب و رنگ رو ** سر فدا کردی و گشتی همچو مو
(That) you have sat—how often!—in the fire, like aloes-wood; that you have gone—how often!—to meet the sword, like a helmet.1685
چند در آتش نشستی همچو عود ** چند پیش تیغ رفتی همچو خود
A hundred thousand such acts of helplessness are habitual to lovers (of God), and (their number) cannot be reckoned.
زین چنین بیچارگیها صد هزار ** خوی عشاق است و ناید در شمار
After you have had this dream at night, the day breaks; through hope thereof your day becomes triumphant.
چون که شب این خواب دیدی روز شد ** از امیدش روز تو پیروز شد
You have turned your eye to left and right, (wondering) where is that sign and those tokens.
چشم گردان کردهای بر چپ و راست ** کان نشان و آن علامتها کجاست
You are trembling like a leaf (and saying), “Alas, if the day depart and the sign come not to pass!”
بر مثال برگ میلرزی که وای ** گر رود روز و نشان ناید به جای
You are running in street and market and into houses, like one that should lose a calf.1690
میدوی در کوی و بازار و سرا ** چون کسی کاو گم کند گوساله را
(Somebody asks), “Is it good (news), Sir? Why are you running to and fro? Who belonging to you is it that you have lost here?”
خواجه خیر است این دوادو چیستت ** گم شده اینجا که داری کیستت
“It is good (news),” you tell him, “but none may know my good (news) except myself.
گوییاش خیر است لیکن خیر من ** کس نشاید که بداند غیر من
If I tell it, lo, my sign is missed, and when the sign is missed, the hour of death is come.”
گر بگویم نک نشانم فوت شد ** چون نشان شد فوت وقت موت شد