“Thou resemblest that (wicked man) for thou art devoid of that light, inasmuch as thou art putting thy nose to filth.
تو بدان مانی کز آن نوری تهی ** زآنک بینی بر پلیدی مینهی
Because of being parted (from me) thy cheeks and face have become yellow (pale): thou art (a tree with) yellow leaves and unripened fruit,
از فراقت زرد شد رخسار و رو ** برگ زردی میوهی ناپخته تو
The pot was blackened by the fire and became like smoke in colour, (but) the meat, on account of (its) hardness, has remained so raw as this!
دیگ ز آتش شد سیاه و دودفام ** گوشت از سختی چنین ماندست خام
Eight years have I boiled, thee in separation (from me): thy rawness and hypocrisy have not become less by a single mote.
هشت سالت جوش دادم در فراق ** کم نشد یک ذره خامیت و نفاق
Thy young grape is indurated; for through sickness the (other) young grapes are now raisins, while thou art (still) immature.”305
غورهی تو سنگ بسته کز سقام ** غورهها اکنون مویزند و تو خام
How the lover begged to be excused for his sin, (but) with duplicity and dissimulation; and how the beloved perceived that also.
عذر خواستن آن عاشق از گناه خویش به تلبیس و روی پوش و فهم کردن معشوق آن را نیز
The lover said, “I made the trial—do not take offence—that I might see whether thou art a hetaera or a modest woman. [The lover said, “I made the trial—do not take offence—that I might see whether thou art a courtesan or a modest woman.]
گفت عاشق امتحان کردم مگیر ** تا ببینم تو حریفی یا ستیر
I was knowing (it) without the trial, but how should hearing be the same as seeing?
من همی دانستمت بیامتحان ** لیک کی باشد خبر همچون عیان
Thou art (like) the sun: thy name is renowned and known to all: what harm is there if I have tested it?
آفتابی نام تو مشهور و فاش ** چه زیانست ار بکردم ابتلاش
Thou art I: every day I am making trial of myself in profit and loss (good and evil).
تو منی من خویشتن را امتحان ** میکنم هر روز در سود و زیان
The prophets were put to the trial by their enemies, with the result that miracles were displayed by them.310
انبیا را امتحان کرده عدات ** تا شده ظاهر ازیشان معجزات
I made trial of my own eye with light, O thou from whose eyes may the evil eye be far!
امتحان چشم خود کردم به نور ** ای که چشم بد ز چشمان تو دور
This world is as the ruin, and thou the treasure (buried there): if I have made investigation concerning thy treasure, be not aggrieved.
این جهان همچون خرابست و تو گنج ** گر تفحص کردم از گنجت مرنج
I recklessly committed such an indiscretion, that I may always boast (of thy virtue) to (thy) enemies;
زان چنین بیخردگی کردم گزاف ** تا زنم با دشمنان هر بار لاف
So that, when my tongue bestows a name on thee, my eye may give testimonies of this which I have seen.
تا زبانم چون ترا نامی نهد ** چشم ازین دیده گواهیها دهد
If I have sought to rob thee of thy honour I come, O Moon (of beauty), with sword and winding-sheet.315
گر شدم در راه حرمت راهزن ** آمدم ای مه به شمشیر و کفن
Do not cut off my feet and head save with thine own hand, for I belong to this hand, not to another hand.
جز به دست خود مبرم پا و سر ** که ازین دستم نه از دست دگر
Thou art talking again of separation: do whatsoever thou wilt, but do not this!”
از جدایی باز میرانی سخن ** هر چه خواهی کن ولیکن این مکن
The way is now made (open for entering) into the realm of Discourse (Exposition); (but) ‘tis impossible to speak (on the subject), since there is no time (to do so at present).
در سخن آباد این دم راه شد ** گفت امکان نیست چون بیگاه شد
We have told the husks (externals), but the kernel (the inner meaning) is buried; if we remain (alive), this will not remain (concealed) as it is now.
پوستها گفتیم و مغز آمد دفین ** گر بمانیم این نماند همچنین
How the beloved rejected the excuses of the lover and rubbed his duplicity into him.
رد کردن معشوقه عذر عاشق را و تلبیس او را در روی او مالیدن
The loved one opened her lips to answer him, saying, “On my side it is day, and on thy side it is night.320
در جوابش بر گشاد آن یار لب ** کز سوی ما روز سوی تست شب
Why in contention dost thou bring forward dark evasions be fore those who see (the truth plainly)?
حیلههای تیره اندر داوری ** پیش بینایان چرا میآوری
To us, all the deceit and dissimulations that thou hast in thy heart are manifest and clear as day.
هر چه در دل داری از مکر و رموز ** پیش ما رسواست و پیدا همچو روز
If we, in kindness to our servant, cover it up, why dost thou carry shamelessness beyond the limit?
گر بپوشیمش ز بندهپروری ** تو چرا بیرویی از حد میبری
Learn from thy Father; for in (the hour of) sin Adam came down willingly to the vestibule
از پدر آموز که آدم در گناه ** خوش فرود آمد به سوی پایگاه
When he beheld that Knower of secrets, he stood up on his feet to ask forgiveness.325
چون بدید آن عالم الاسرار را ** بر دو پا استاد استغفار را