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  • Once more I shall be sacrificed and die to the angel: I shall become that which enters not into the imagination. 3905
  • بار دیگر از ملک قربان شوم ** آنچ اندر وهم ناید آن شوم

  • Then I shall become non-existence: non-existence saith to me, (in tones loud) as an organ, Verily, unto Him shall we return.
  • پس عدم گردم عدم چون ارغنون ** گویدم که انا الیه راجعون

  • Know death to be (the thing signified by) what the (Mohammedan) community are agreed upon, namely, that the Water of Life is hidden in the (Land of) Darkness.
  • مرگ دان آنک اتفاق امتست ** کاب حیوانی نهان در ظلمتست

  • Grow from this river-bank, like the water-lily, greedy and craving for death as the sufferer from dropsy.
  • همچو نیلوفر برو زین طرف جو ** همچو مستسقی حریص و مرگ‌جو

  • The water is death to him, and (yet) he is seeking the water and drinking it— and God best knoweth the right course.
  • مرگ او آبست و او جویای آب ** می‌خورد والله اعلم بالصواب

  • Oh, the cold lover, clad in the felt (garment) of shame, who from fear of (losing) his life is fleeing from the Beloved! 3910
  • ای فسرده عاشق ننگین نمد ** کو ز بیم جان ز جانان می‌رمد

  • O thou disgrace (even) to women, behold hundreds of thousands of souls clapping their hands (and rushing) towards the sword of His love!
  • سوی تیغ عشقش ای ننگ زنان ** صد هزاران جان نگر دستک‌زنان

  • Thou hast seen the river: spill thy jug in the river: how should the water take flight from the river?
  • جوی دیدی کوزه اندر جوی ریز ** آب را از جوی کی باشد گریز

  • When the water in the jug goes into the river-water, it disappears in it, and it becomes the river.
  • آب کوزه چون در آب جو شود ** محو گردد در وی و جو او شود

  • His (the lover's) attributes have passed away, and his essence remains: after this, he does not dwindle or become ill-favoured.
  • وصف او فانی شد و ذاتش بقا ** زین سپس نه کم شود نه بدلقا

  • I have hanged myself on His palm-tree in excuse for having fled from Him.” 3915
  • خویش را بر نخل او آویختم ** عذر آن را که ازو بگریختم

  • How that lover reached his Beloved when he washed his hands of (gave up) his life.
  • رسیدن آن عاشق به معشوق خویش چون دست از جان خود بشست

  • Prostrating himself on face and head, like a ball, he went with wet eyes towards the Sadr (Prince).
  • همچو گویی سجده کن بر رو و سر ** جانب آن صدر شد با چشم تر

  • All the people were waiting, their heads in the air, (to see) whether he would burn or hang him.
  • جمله خلقان منتظر سر در هوا ** کش بسوزد یا برآویزد ورا

  • “Now” (they said) “he will show to this simpleton that which Time (Fortune) shows to the unfortunate.
  • این زمان این احمق یک لخت را ** آن نماید که زمان بدبخت را

  • Like the moth, he (the lover) deemed the (fiery) sparks to be the light: foolishly he fell in and was cut off from (deprived of) life.”
  • همچو پروانه شرر را نور دید ** احمقانه در فتاد از جان برید

  • But the candle of Love is not like that (external) candle: it is radiance in radiance in radiance. 3920
  • لیک شمع عشق چون آن شمع نیست ** روشن اندر روشن اندر روشنیست

  • It is the reverse of the fiery candles: it seems to be fire, while (in reality) it is all sweetness.
  • او به عکس شمعهای آتشیست ** می‌نماید آتش و جمله خوشیست

  • Description of the lover-killing mosque and of the death-seeking reckless lover who became a guest there.
  • صفت آن مسجد کی عاشق‌کش بود و آن عاشق مرگ‌جوی لا ابالی کی درو مهمان شد

  • Lend ear to a story, O well-conducted man! There was a mosque on the outskirts of the city of Rayy.
  • یک حکایت گوش کن ای نیک‌پی ** مسجدی بد بر کنار شهر ری

  • No one ever slept the night there but on the same night (he died) from terror (and) his children became orphans.
  • هیچ کس در وی نخفتی شب ز بیم ** که نه فرزندش شدی آن شب یتیم

  • Many the naked (destitute) stranger that went into it (at nightfall) and went at dawn, like the stars, into the grave.
  • بس که اندر وی غریب عور رفت ** صبحدم چون اختران در گور رفت

  • Make thyself very attentive to this (tale)! The dawn is come, cut short thy slumber! 3925
  • خویشتن را نیک ازین آگاه کن ** صبح آمد خواب را کوتاه کن

  • Every one used to say that in it there were fierce Jinnís who killed the guests with blunt swords.
  • هر کسی گفتی که پریانند تند ** اندرو مهمان کشان با تیغ کند

  • Another would say, “It is the magic and talisman, for this enchantment is the foe and enemy of life.”
  • آن دگر گفتی که سحرست و طلسم ** کین رصد باشد عدو جان و خصم

  • Another would say, “Put an inscription (notice) conspicuously on its door—‘O guest, do not stay here.
  • آن دگر گفتی که بر نه نقش فاش ** بر درش کای میهمان اینجا مباش

  • Do not sleep the night here, if you want to live; otherwise, death will unmask an ambush for you in this place.’”
  • شب مخسپ اینجا اگر جان بایدت ** ورنه مرگ اینجا کمین بگشایدت