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1883-1907

  • Even the good eyes are evil to him in respect of (their) jealousy, for his beauty is infinite.
  • چشمهای نیک هم بر وی به دست  ** از ره غیرت که حسنش بی‌حدست 

  • I want a mouth as broad as heaven to describe the qualities of him who is envied by the angels;
  • یک دهان خواهم به پهنای فلک  ** تا بگویم وصف آن رشک ملک 

  • And if I should get a mouth like this and a hundred times as (broad as) this, it would be too narrow for (utterance of) this longing's distressful cry. 1885
  • ور دهان یابم چنین و صد چنین  ** تنگ آید در فغان این حنین 

  • (Yet), if I should not utter even this (little) amount, O trusted (friend), the phial, (which is) my heart, would burst from weakness (inability to contain its emotion).
  • این قدر گر هم نگویم ای سند  ** شیشه‌ی دل از ضعیفی بشکند 

  • Since I have seen my heart's phial (to be) fragile, I have rent many a mantle in order to allay (my pain).
  • شیشه‌ی دل را چو نازک دیده‌ام  ** بهر تسکین بس قبا بدریده‌ام 

  • Beyond doubt, O worshipful one, I must become mad for three days at the beginning of every month.
  • من سر هر ماه سه روز ای صنم  ** بی‌گمان باید که دیوانه شوم 

  • Hark, to-day is the first of the triduum: ’tis the day of triumph (pírúz), not (the day of) the turquoise (pírúza).
  • هین که امروز اول سه روزه است  ** روز پیروزست نه پیروزه است 

  • Every heart that is in love with the King, for it (for that heart) ’tis always the beginning of the month. 1890
  • هر دلی که اندر غم شه می‌بود  ** دم به دم او را سر مه می‌بود 

  • Since I have become mad, the story of Mahmúd and the description of Ayáz are now out of order.
  • قصه‌ی محمود و اوصاف ایاز  ** چون شدم دیوانه رفت اکنون ز ساز 

  • Explaining that what is related (here) is (only) the outward form of the Story, and that it is a form befitting these (hearers) who apprehend (no more than) the external form and suitable to the mirror of their imagination, whereas the real essence of the Story is so transcendent that speech is ashamed to reveal it, and from (being overcome with) confusion (the writer) loses head, beard, and pen. And a hint is enough for the wise.
  • بیان آنک آنچ بیان کرده می‌شود صورت قصه است وانگه آن صورتیست کی در خورد این صورت گیرانست و درخورد آینه‌ی تصویر ایشان و از قدوسیتی کی حقیقت این قصه راست نطق را ازین تنزیل شرم می‌آید و از خجالت سر و ریش و قلم گم می‌کند و العاقل یکفیه الاشاره 

  • Forasmuch as my elephant has dreamed of Hindustán, abandon hope of (receiving) the tax: the village is ruined.
  • زانک پیلم دید هندستان به خواب  ** از خراج اومید بر ده شد خراب 

  • How should poesy and rhyme come to me after the foundations of sanity are destroyed?
  • کیف یاتی النظم لی والقافیه  ** بعد ما ضاعت اصول العافیه 

  • ’Tis not (merely) one madness I have amidst the sorrows of love; nay, but madness on madness on madness.
  • ما جنون واحد لی فی الشجون  ** بل جنون فی جنون فی جنون 

  • My body is wasted away by secret indications of the mysteries, ever since I beheld eternal life (baqá) in dying to self (faná). 1895
  • ذاب جسمی من اشارات الکنی  ** منذ عاینت البقاء فی الفنا 

  • O Ayáz, from love of thee I have become (thin) as a hair: I am unable to tell (thy) story, do thou tell my story.
  • ای ایاز از عشق تو گشتم چو موی  ** ماندم از قصه تو قصه‌ی من بگوی 

  • Many a tale of thy love have I recited with (all) my soul: (now) that I have become (unsubstantial as) a tale, do thou recite mine.
  • بس فسانه‌ی عشق تو خواندم به جان  ** تو مرا که افسانه گشتستم بخوان 

  • Verily thou art reciting, O model (for all), not I: I am Mount Sinai, thou art Moses, and this (discourse) is the echo.
  • خود تو می‌خوانی نه من ای مقتدی  ** من که طورم تو موسی وین صدا 

  • How should the helpless mountain know what the words are? The mountain is empty of that (meaning) which Moses knows.
  • کوه بیچاره چه داند گفت چیست  ** زانک موسی می‌بداند که تهیست 

  • The mountain knows (only) according to its own measure: the body hath (only) a little of the grace of the spirit. 1900
  • کوه می‌داند به قدر خویشتن  ** اندکی دارد ز لطف روح تن 

  • The body is like the astrolabe in respect of (the use of the latter in) calculation (of altitudes): it is a sign (for seekers) of the sun-like spirit.
  • تن چو اصطرلاب باشد ز احتساب  ** آیتی از روح هم‌چون آفتاب 

  • When the astronomer is not keen-sighted, an astrolabe-moulder is required,
  • آن منجم چون نباشد چشم‌تیز  ** شرط باشد مرد اصطرلاب‌ریز 

  • To make an astrolabe for him in order that he may gain some knowledge concerning the state of the sun.
  • تا صطرلابی کند از بهر او  ** تا برد از حالت خورشید بو 

  • The soul that seeks (to learn) the truth from the (bodily) astrolabe—how much should it know of the (spiritual) sky and sun?
  • جان کز اصطرلاب جوید او صواب  ** چه قدر داند ز چرخ و آفتاب 

  • You who observe (them) with the astrolabe of the eye are certainly very far short (of perfection) in your view of the (spiritual) world. 1905
  • تو که ز اصطرب دیده بنگری  ** درجهان دیدن یقین بس قاصری 

  • You have seen the (spiritual) world according to the measure of your eye, (and) where is the (spiritual) world (in relation to that)? Why, (then), have you twisted your moustache (so boastfully)?
  • تو جهان را قدر دیده دیده‌ای  ** کو جهان سبلت چرا مالیده‌ای 

  • The gnostics (mystics) possess a collyrium: seek it, in order that this eye which (now) resembles a river may become an ocean.
  • عارفان را سرمه‌ای هست آن بجوی  ** تا که دریا گردد این چشم چو جوی