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3911-3920

  • O thou disgrace (even) to women, behold hundreds of thousands of souls clapping their hands (and rushing) towards the sword of His love!
  • سوی تیغ عشقش ای ننگ زنان ** صد هزاران جان نگر دستک‌زنان
  • Thou hast seen the river: spill thy jug in the river: how should the water take flight from the river?
  • جوی دیدی کوزه اندر جوی ریز ** آب را از جوی کی باشد گریز
  • When the water in the jug goes into the river-water, it disappears in it, and it becomes the river.
  • آب کوزه چون در آب جو شود ** محو گردد در وی و جو او شود
  • His (the lover's) attributes have passed away, and his essence remains: after this, he does not dwindle or become ill-favoured.
  • وصف او فانی شد و ذاتش بقا ** زین سپس نه کم شود نه بدلقا
  • I have hanged myself on His palm-tree in excuse for having fled from Him.” 3915
  • خویش را بر نخل او آویختم ** عذر آن را که ازو بگریختم
  • How that lover reached his Beloved when he washed his hands of (gave up) his life.
  • رسیدن آن عاشق به معشوق خویش چون دست از جان خود بشست
  • Prostrating himself on face and head, like a ball, he went with wet eyes towards the Sadr (Prince).
  • همچو گویی سجده کن بر رو و سر ** جانب آن صدر شد با چشم تر
  • All the people were waiting, their heads in the air, (to see) whether he would burn or hang him.
  • جمله خلقان منتظر سر در هوا ** کش بسوزد یا برآویزد ورا
  • “Now” (they said) “he will show to this simpleton that which Time (Fortune) shows to the unfortunate.
  • این زمان این احمق یک لخت را ** آن نماید که زمان بدبخت را
  • 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.”
  • همچو پروانه شرر را نور دید ** احمقانه در فتاد از جان برید
  • But the candle of Love is not like that (external) candle: it is radiance in radiance in radiance. 3920
  • لیک شمع عشق چون آن شمع نیست ** روشن اندر روشن اندر روشنیست