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1775-1799

  • How should I not wail bitterly on account of His deceit, since I am not in the circle of those intoxicated with Him? 1775
  • چون ننالم تلخ از دستان او ** چون نیم در حلقه‌‌ی مستان او

  • How shall I not be like night, without His day and without the favour of His day-illuming countenance?
  • چون نباشم همچو شب بی‌‌روز او ** بی‌‌وصال روی روز افروز او

  • His unsweetness is sweet in my soul: may my soul be sacrificed to the Beloved who grieves my heart!
  • ناخوش او خوش بود در جان من ** جان فدای یار دل رنجان من‌‌

  • I am in love with my grief and pain for the sake of pleasing my peerless King.
  • عاشقم بر رنج خویش و درد خویش ** بهر خشنودی شاه فرد خویش‌‌

  • I make the dust of sorrow a salve for mine eye, that the two seas of mine eyes may be filled with pearls.
  • خاک غم را سرمه سازم بهر چشم ** تا ز گوهر پر شود دو بحر چشم‌‌

  • The tears which people shed for His sake are pearls—and people think they are tears. 1780
  • اشک کان از بهر او بارند خلق ** گوهر است و اشک پندارند خلق‌‌

  • I am complaining of the Soul of the soul, (but in truth) I am not complaining: I am (only) relating.
  • من ز جان جان شکایت می‌‌کنم ** من نیم شاکی روایت می‌‌کنم‌‌

  • My heart is saying, “I am tormented by Him,” and I have (long) been laughing at its poor pretence.
  • دل همی‌‌گوید کز او رنجیده‌‌ام ** وز نفاق سست می‌‌خندیده‌‌ام‌‌

  • Do (me) right, O glory of the righteous, O Thou who art the dais, and I the threshold of Thy door!
  • راستی کن ای تو فخر راستان ** ای تو صدر و من درت را آستان‌‌

  • Where are threshold and dais in reality? In the quarter where our Beloved is, where are “we” and “I”?
  • آستان و صدر در معنی کجاست ** ما و من کو آن طرف کان یار ماست‌‌

  • O Thou whose soul is free from “we” and “I,” O Thou who art the subtle essence of the spirit in man and woman, 1785
  • ای رهیده جان تو از ما و من ** ای لطیفه‌‌ی روح اندر مرد و زن‌‌

  • When man and woman become one, Thou art that One; when the units are wiped out, lo, Thou art that (Unity).
  • مرد و زن چون یک شود آن یک تویی ** چون که یک جا محو شد آنک تویی‌‌

  • Thou didst contrive this “I” and “we” in order that Thou mightst play the game of worship with Thyself,
  • این من و ما بهر آن بر ساختی ** تا تو با خود نرد خدمت باختی‌‌

  • That all “I's” and “thou's” should become one soul and at last should be submerged in the Beloved.
  • تا من و توها همه یک جان شوند ** عاقبت مستغرق جانان شوند

  • All this is (true), and do Thou come, O Giver of the command, O Thou who transcendest “Come” and (all) speech!
  • این همه هست و بیا ای امر کن ** ای منزه از بیان و از سخن‌‌

  • The body can see Thee (only) in bodily fashion: it fancies (pictures to itself) Thy sadness or laughter. 1790
  • جسم جسمانه تواند دیدنت ** در خیال آرد غم و خندیدنت‌‌

  • Do not say that the heart that is bound (conditioned) by (such bodily attributes as) sadness and laughter is worthy of seeing Thee (as Thou really art).
  • دل که او بسته‌‌ی غم و خندیدن است ** تو مگو کاو لایق آن دیدن است‌‌

  • He who is bound by sadness and laughter is living by means of these two borrowed (transient and unreal) things.
  • آن که او بسته‌‌ی غم و خنده بود ** او بدین دو عاریت زنده بود

  • In the verdant garden of Love, which is without end, there are many fruits besides sorrow and joy.
  • باغ سبز عشق کاو بی‌‌منتهاست ** جز غم و شادی در او بس میوه‌‌هاست‌‌

  • Love is higher than these two states of feeling: without spring and without autumn it is (ever) green and fresh.
  • عاشقی زین هر دو حالت برتر است ** بی‌‌بهار و بی‌‌خزان سبز و تر است‌‌

  • Pay the tithe on Thy fair face, O Beauteous One: relate the story of the soul that is rent in pieces, 1795
  • ده زکات روی خوب ای خوب رو ** شرح جان شرحه شرحه باز گو

  • For by the coquetry of a glance One who is given to glancing amorously has branded my heart anew.
  • کز کرشم غمزه‌‌ی غمازه‌‌ای ** بر دلم بنهاد داغی تازه‌‌ای‌‌

  • I absolved Him if He shed my blood: I was saying, “It is lawful (I absolve Thee),” and He was fleeing (from me).
  • من حلالش کردم از خونم بریخت ** من همی‌‌گفتم حلال او می‌‌گریخت‌‌

  • Since Thou art fleeing from the lament of those who are (as) dust, why pourest Thou sorrow on the hearts of the sorrowful?
  • چون گریزانی ز ناله‌‌ی خاکیان ** غم چه ریزی بر دل غمناکیان‌‌

  • O Thou, whom every dawn that shone from the East found overflowing (with abundant grace) like the bright fountain (of the sun),
  • ای که هر صبحی که از مشرق بتافت ** همچو چشمه‌‌ی مشرقت در جوش یافت‌‌