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1658-1682

  • How shall a plane-tree open its hands (spread its leaves) in prayer? How shall any tree toss its head in the air (of love-desire)?
  • کی چناری کف گشاید در دعا ** کی درختی سر فشاند در هوا

  • How shall the blossoms begin to shake out their sleeves full of largesse in the days of Spring?
  • کی شکوفه آستین پر نثار ** بر فشاندن گیرد ایام بهار

  • How shall the cheeks of the anemone flame like blood? How shall the rose bring gold out of its purse? 1660
  • کی فروزد لاله را رخ همچو خون ** کی گل از کیسه بر آرد زر برون‏

  • How shall the nightingale come and smell the rose? How shall the dove say “coo, coo,” as one that seeks?
  • کی بیاید بلبل و گل بو کند ** کی چو طالب فاخته کوکو کند

  • How shall the stork utter with (all) its soul the cry lak, lak? What is (the meaning of) lak? (It means) “Thine is the kingdom, O Thou whose help is invoked.”
  • کی بگوید لکلک آن لک لک به جان ** لک چه باشد ملک تست ای مستعان‏

  • How shall the earth show forth the secrets of its inmost mind? How shall the garden become radiant without the sky?
  • کی نماید خاک اسرار ضمیر ** کی شود بی‏آسمان بستان منیر

  • Whence have they fetched those garments (fair qualities)? (They have derived) all of them from One who is Bounteous and Merciful.
  • از کجا آورده‏اند آن حله‏ها ** من کریم من رحیم کلها

  • Those graces are the signs of a Witness: they are the footprints of a man devoted to (God's) service. 1665
  • آن لطافتها نشان شاهدی است ** آن نشان پای مرد عابدی است‏

  • (None but) that person that has seen the King is gladdened by the sign; when one has not seen Him, there is no recognition.
  • آن شود شاد از نشان کاو دید شاه ** چون ندید او را نباشد انتباه‏

  • The spirit of that one who at the time of Am not I (your Lord)? saw his Lord and became beside himself and intoxicated—
  • روح آن کس کاو به هنگام أ لست ** دید رب خویش و شد بی‏خویش و مست‏

  • He (that spirit) knows the scent of the wine because he drank it (before); when he has not drunk it, how can he scent it?
  • او شناسد بوی می کاو می بخورد ** چون نخورد او می چه داند بوی کرد

  • For Wisdom is like a stray camel: like a go-between, it guides (those who find and recognise it) to (the presence of) kings.
  • ز انکه حکمت همچو ناقه‏ی ضاله است ** همچو دلاله شهان را داله است‏

  • You behold in dream a person of pleasing countenance, who gives you a promise and a sign 1670
  • تو ببینی خواب در یک خوش لقا ** کاو دهد وعده و نشانی مر ترا

  • That your desire will come to pass; here is the sign—such and such a person will meet you to-morrow.
  • که مراد تو شود اینک نشان ** که بپیش آید ترا فردا فلان‏

  • One sign is that he will be riding; one sign is that he will clasp you to his breast;
  • یک نشانی آن که او باشد سوار ** یک نشانی که ترا گیرد کنار

  • One sign is that he will smile before you; one sign is that he will fold his hands in your presence;
  • یک نشانی که بخندد پیش تو ** یک نشان که دست بندد پیش تو

  • One sign is that when the morrow comes you will not tell this dream to any one, though you would fain do so.
  • یک نشانی آن که این خواب از هوس ** چون شود فردا نگویی پیش کس‏

  • Concerning that (last-mentioned) sign, He (God) said to Zakariyyá (Zacharias), “Thou shalt not begin to speak at all till three days (have passed). 1675
  • ز ان نشان با والد یحیی بگفت ** که نیایی تا سه روز اصلا به گفت‏

  • For three nights keep silence as to thy good and ill: this will be the sign that Yahyá will come (be born) to thee.
  • تا سه شب خامش کن از نیک و بدت ** این نشان باشد که یحیی آیدت‏

  • During three days do not breathe a word, for this silence is the sign of (the fulfilment) of thy purpose.
  • دم مزن سه روز اندر گفت‏وگو ** کاین سکوت است آیت مقصود تو

  • Beware! do not thou speak of this sign, and keep this matter hidden in thy heart.”
  • هین میاور این نشان را تو به گفت ** وین سخن را دار اندر دل نهفت‏

  • He (the person dreamed of) will sweetly tell these signs to him (the dreamer). What are these signs (alone)? (He will tell him) a hundred signs besides.
  • این نشانها گویدش همچون شکر ** این چه باشد صد نشانی دگر

  • This (which follows) is the sign that you will gain from God the (spiritual) kingdom and power that you are seeking— 1680
  • این نشان آن بود کان ملک و جاه ** که همی‏جویی بیابی از اله‏

  • That you weep continually in the long nights, and that you are always ardent in supplication at the hour of dawn;
  • آن که می‏گریی به شبهای دراز ** و انکه می‏سوزی سحرگه در نیاز

  • That, in the absence of that (which you seek), your day has become dark; (that) your neck has become thin as a spindle;
  • آن که بی‏آن روز تو تاریک شد ** همچو دوکی گردنت باریک شد