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4
226-235

  • I knew, before coming face to face (with thee), that by reason of contumacy thou art set fast in damnation.
  • من همی دانستمت پیش از لقا ** کز ستیزه راسخی اندر شقا
  • When my eye is red in ophthalmia, I know it (the redness) is from the disease, (even) if I do not see it (the redness).
  • چونک چشمم سرخ باشد در غمش ** دانمش زان درد گر کم بینمش
  • Thou deemedst me as a lamb without the shepherd, thou thoughtest that I have none keeping watch (over me).
  • تو مرا چون بره دیدی بی شبان ** تو گمان بردی ندارم پاسبان
  • The cause why lovers have moaned in grief is that they have rubbed their eyes malapropos.
  • عاشقان از درد زان نالیده‌اند ** که نظر ناجایگه مالیده‌اند
  • They have regarded that Gazelle as being shepherdless, they have regarded that Captive as (one who may be taken) cost-free, 230
  • بی‌شبان دانسته‌اند آن ظبی را ** رایگان دانسته‌اند آن سبی را
  • Till (suddenly) an arrow from the glance (of Divine jealousy) comes (descends) upon the heart, (as though) to say, ‘I am the Keeper: do not look wantonly.
  • تا ز غمزه تیر آمد بر جگر ** که منم حارس گزافه کم نگر
  • How am I meaner than a lamb, meaner than a kid, that there should not be a keeper behind me?
  • کی کم از بره کم از بزغاله‌ام ** که نباشد حارس از دنباله‌ام
  • I have a Keeper whom it beseems to hold dominion: He knoweth the wind that blows upon me.
  • حارسی دارم که ملکش می‌سزد ** داند او بادی که آن بر من وزد
  • Whether that wind was cold or hot, that Knowing One is not unaware, is not absent, O infirm man.
  • سرد بود آن باد یا گرم آن علیم ** نیست غافل نیست غایب ای سقیم
  • The appetitive soul is deaf and blind to God: I with my heart was seeing thy blindness from afar. 235
  • نفس شهوانی ز حق کرست و کور ** من به دل کوریت می‌دیدم ز دور