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1797-1821

  • 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

  • How didst Thou give (nothing but) evasion to Thy frenzied lover, O Thou the sugar of whose lips hath no price? 1800
  • چون بهانه دادی این شیدات را ** ای بهانه شکر لبهات را

  • O Thou who art a new soul to the old world, hear the cry (that comes) from my body (which is) without soul and heart.
  • ای جهان کهنه را تو جان نو ** از تن بی‌‌جان و دل افغان شنو

  • Leave the tale of the Rose! For God's sake set forth the tale of the Nightingale that is parted from the Rose!
  • شرح گل بگذار از بهر خدا ** شرح بلبل گو که شد از گل جدا

  • Our emotion is not caused by grief and joy, our consciousness is not related to fancy and imagination.
  • از غم و شادی نباشد جوش ما ** با خیال و وهم نبود هوش ما

  • There is another state (of consciousness), which is rare: do not thou disbelieve, for God is very mighty.
  • حالتی دیگر بود کان نادر است ** تو مشو منکر که حق بس قادر است‌‌

  • Do not judge from the (normal) state of man, do not abide in wrong-doing and in well-doing. 1805
  • تو قیاس از حالت انسان مکن ** منزل اندر جور و در احسان مکن‌‌

  • Wrong-doing and well-doing, grief and joy, are things that come into existence; those who come into existence die; God is their heir.
  • جور و احسان رنج و شادی حادث است ** حادثان میرند و حقشان وارث است‌‌

  • ’Tis dawn. O Thou who art the Dawn of the dawn and its Refuge, ask pardon (for me) of my Lord Husámu’ddín!
  • صبح شد ای صبح را پشت و پناه ** عذر مخدومی حسام الدین بخواه‌‌

  • Thou art He who asketh pardon of the Universal Mind and Soul, Thou art the Soul of the soul and the Splendour of the coral.
  • عذر خواه عقل کل و جان تویی ** جان جان و تابش مرجان تویی‌‌

  • The light of dawn has shone forth, and from Thy light we are engaged in drinking the morning-drink with the wine of Thy Mansúr.
  • تافت نور صبح و ما از نور تو ** در صبوحی با می منصور تو

  • Inasmuch as Thy gift keeps me thus (enravished), who (what) is (other) wine that it should bring me rapture? 1810
  • داده‌‌ی تو چون چنین دارد مرا ** باده که بود کاو طرب آرد مرا

  • Wine in ferment is a beggar suing for our ferment; Heaven in revolution is a beggar suing for our consciousness.
  • باده در جوشش گدای جوش ماست ** چرخ در گردش گدای هوش ماست‌‌

  • Wine became intoxicated with us, not we with it; the body came into being from us, not we from it.
  • باده از ما مست شد نی ما از او ** قالب از ما هست شد نی ما از او

  • We are as bees, and bodies are as wax (honeycomb): we have made the body, cell by cell, like wax.
  • ما چو زنبوریم و قالبها چو موم ** خانه خانه کرده قالب را چو موم‌‌

  • Reverting to the tale of the merchant who went to trade (in India).
  • رجوع به حکایت خواجه‌‌ی تاجر

  • This (discourse) is very long. Tell the story of the merchant, that we may see what happened to that good man.
  • بس دراز است این حدیث خواجه گو ** تا چه شد احوال آن مرد نکو

  • The merchant in fire (burning grief) and anguish and yearning was uttering a hundred distracted phrases like this, 1815
  • خواجه اندر آتش و درد و حنین ** صد پراکنده همی‌‌گفت این چنین‌‌

  • Now self-contradiction, now disdain, now supplication, now passion for reality, now metaphor (unreality).
  • گه تناقض گاه ناز و گه نیاز ** گاه سودای حقیقت گه مجاز

  • The drowning man suffers an agony of soul and clutches at every straw.
  • مرد غرقه گشته جانی می‌‌کند ** دست را در هر گیاهی می‌‌زند

  • For fear of (losing) his head (life), he flings about (both) hand and foot to see whether any one will take his hand (help him) in peril.
  • تا کدامش دست گیرد در خطر ** دست و پایی می‌‌زند از بیم سر

  • The Friend loves this agitation: it is better to struggle vainly than to lie still.
  • دوست دارد یار این آشفتگی ** کوشش بی‌‌هوده به از خفتگی‌‌

  • He who is the King (of all) is not idle, (though) complaint from Him would be a marvel, for He is not ill. 1820
  • آن که او شاه است او بی‌‌کار نیست ** ناله از وی طرفه کاو بیمار نیست‌‌

  • For this reason said the Merciful (God), O son, “Every day He is (busy) in an affair,” O son.
  • بهر این فرمود رحمان ای پسر ** کل يوم هو فی شأن ای پسر