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  • If he were aware of him, he would cry out in distress and go into the presence of the King of kings, 3825
  • گر ازو واقف بدی افغان زدی ** پیش آن سلطان سلطانان شدی

  • And scatter earth on his head before the King, that he might find security from the frightful Devil.
  • ریختی بر سر به پیش شاه خاک ** تا امان دیدی ز دیو سهمناک

  • (But) you, O less than an ant, deemed yourself a prince: hence, blind (as you are), you did not see that custodian.
  • میر دیدی خویش را ای کم ز مور ** زان ندیدی آن موکل را تو کور

  • You were deluded by these false wings and plumes—the wings and plumes that lead to woe.
  • غره گشتی زین دروغین پر و بال ** پر و بالی کو کشد سوی وبال

  • (If) he keep his wings light (unencumbered), he journeys upward; when he becomes defiled with earth, he makes heavinesses (which weigh him down).
  • پر سبک دارد ره بالا کند ** چون گل‌آلو شد گرانیها کند

  • How the lover, impelled by love, said “I don't care” to the person who counselled and scolded him.
  • لاابالی گفتن عاشق ناصح و عاذل را از سر عشق

  • He said, “O counsellor, be silent! How long, how long (wilt thou chide)? Do not give advice, for the bonds (on me) are very grievous. 3830
  • گفت ای ناصح خمش کن چند چند ** پند کم ده زانک بس سختست بند

  • My bonds are more grievous than thy advice: thy doctor (who taught thee) was not acquainted with love.
  • سخت‌تر شد بند من از پند تو ** عشق را نشناخت دانشمند تو

  • In that quarter where love was increasing (my) pain, Bú Hanífa and Sháfi‘í gave no instruction.
  • آن طرف که عشق می‌افزود درد ** بوحنیفه و شافعی درسی نکرد

  • Do not thou threaten me with being killed, for I thirst lamentably for mine own blood.”
  • تو مکن تهدید از کشتن که من ** تشنه‌ی زارم به خون خویشتن

  • For lovers, there is a dying at every moment: verily, the dying of lovers is not of one sort.
  • عاشقان را هر زمانی مردنیست ** مردن عشاق خود یک نوع نیست

  • He (the lover) hath two hundred souls (lives) from the Soul of Guidance, and those two hundred he is sacrificing at every instant. 3835
  • او دو صد جان دارد از جان هدی ** وآن دوصد را می‌کند هر دم فدی

  • For each soul (life) he receives ten as its price: read from the Qur’án “ten like unto them.”
  • هر یکی جان را ستاند ده بها ** از نبی خوان عشرة امثالها

  • If that One of friendly countenance shed my blood, dancing (in triumph) I will strew (lavish) my soul (life) upon Him.
  • گر بریزد خون من آن دوست‌رو ** پای‌کوبان جان برافشانم برو

  • I have tried it: my death is (consists) in life: when I escape from this life, ’tis to endure for ever.
  • آزمودم مرگ من در زندگیست ** چون رهم زین زندگی پایندگیست

  • “Kill me, kill me, O trusty friends! Lo, in my being killed is life on life.”
  • اقتلونی اقتلونی یا ثقات ** ان فی قتلی حیاتا فی حیات

  • O Thou that makest the cheek radiant, O Spirit of everlastingness, draw my spirit to Thyself and generously bestow on me the meeting (with Thee). 3840
  • یا منیر الخد یا روح البقا ** اجتذب روحی وجد لی باللقا

  • I have a Beloved whose love roasts the bowels (of my heart): if He wished to walk upon mine eye, He would walk (upon it, and be welcome).
  • لی حبیب حبه یشوی الحشا ** لو یشا یمشی علی عینی مشی

  • Speak Persian, though Arabic is sweeter: Love indeed hath a hundred other tongues (besides these two).
  • پارسی گو گرچه تازی خوشترست ** عشق را خود صد زبان دیگرست

  • When the scent of that Charmer of hearts begins to fly (abroad), all those tongues become dumbfounded.
  • بوی آن دلبر چو پران می‌شود ** آن زبانها جمله حیران می‌شود

  • I will cease (from speech): the Sweetheart has begun to speak, be (all) ear—and God best knoweth the right course.
  • بس کنم دلبر در آمد در خطاب ** گوش شو والله اعلم بالصواب

  • Since the lover has repented, now beware (of misapprehension), for he will lecture, like the adepts (in mystical love), on the gallows. 3845
  • چونک عاشق توبه کرد اکنون بترس ** کو چو عیاران کند بر دار درس

  • Although this lover is going to Bukhárá, he is not going to (attend) lectures or to (learn from) a teacher.
  • گرچه این عاشق بخارا می‌رود ** نه به درس و نه به استا می‌رود

  • For lovers, the (only) lecturer is the beauty of the Beloved, their (only) book and lecture and lesson is His face.
  • عاشقان را شد مدرس حسن دوست ** دفتر و درس و سبقشان روی اوست

  • They are silent (outwardly), but the shrill noise of their repetition is going up to the throne and high-seat of their Friend.
  • خامشند و نعره‌ی تکرارشان ** می‌رود تا عرش و تخت یارشان

  • Their (only) lesson is enthusiasm and the whirling dance and quaking agitation; not the Ziyádát and the chapter on “the chain.”
  • درسشان آشوب و چرخ و زلزله ** نه زیاداتست و باب سلسله