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  • Of what Ásaf are thy shoon the abode? One would say that thy sheepskin jacket is the shirt of Joseph.”
  • چارقت ربع کدامین آصفست  ** پوستین گویی که کرته‌ی یوسفست 

  • (This is) like (the case of) the Christian who recounts to his priest a year’s sins––fornication and malice and hypocrisy––
  • هم‌چو ترسا که شمارد با کشش  ** جرم یکساله زنا و غل و غش 

  • In order that the priest may pardon his sins, for he regards his (the priest’s) forgiveness as forgiveness from God.
  • تا بیامرزد کشش زو آن گناه  ** عفو او را عفو داند از اله 

  • The priest has no (real) knowledge of sin and pardon; but love and firm belief are mightily bewitching.
  • نیست آگه آن کشش از جرم و داد  ** لیک بس جادوست عشق و اعتقاد 

  • Love and imagination weave (create) a hundred (forms beautiful as) Joseph: in sooth they are greater sorcerers than Hárút and Márút. 3260
  • دوستی و وهم صد یوسف تند  ** اسحر از هاروت و ماروتست خود 

  • They cause a form (of phantasy) to appear in memory of him (your Beloved): the attraction of the form leads you into (conversation with it).
  • صورتی پیدا کند بر یاد او  ** جذب صورت آردت در گفت و گو 

  • You tell a hundred thousand secrets in the form’s presence, just as a friend speaks (intimately) in the presence of a friend.
  • رازگویی پیش صورت صد هزار  ** آن چنان که یار گوید پیش یار 

  • No (material) form or shape is there; (yet) from it proceed a hundred (utterances of the words) “Am not I (thy Beloved)?” and (from you) a hundred “Yeas.”
  • نه بدانجا صورتی نه هیکلی  ** زاده از وی صد الست و صد بلی 

  • (‘Tis) as when a mother, distraught (with grief) beside the grave of a child newly dead,
  • آن چنان که مادری دل‌برده‌ای  ** پیش گور بچه‌ی نومرده‌ای 

  • Utters heart-felt words earnestly and intensely: the inanimate (corpse) seems to her to be alive. 3265
  • رازها گوید به جد و اجتهاد  ** می‌نماید زنده او را آن جماد 

  • She regards that dust as living and erect, she regards that rubbish as (having) an eye and an ear.
  • حی و قایم داند او آن خاک را  ** چشم و گوشی داند او خاشاک را 

  • To her, at the moment when she is crazed (with grief), every atom of the earth in the grave seems to have hearing and intelligence.
  • پیش او هر ذره‌ی آن خاک گور  ** گوش دارد هوش دارد وقت شور 

  • She believes with all her might that the earth is hearkening (to her): look well at this Love that works magic!
  • مستمع داند به جد آن خاک را  ** خوش نگر این عشق ساحرناک را 

  • Fondly and with tears she lays her face, time after time, on the fresh earth of the grave in such wise
  • آنچنان بر خاک گور تازه او  ** دم‌بدم خوش می‌نهد با اشک رو 

  • As during his life she never laid her face on the son who was so dear to her; 3270
  • که بوقت زندگی هرگز چنان  ** روی ننهادست بر پور چو جان 

  • (But) when some days pass in mourning, the fire of her love sinks to rest.
  • از عزا چون چند روزی بگذرد  ** آتش آن عشق او ساکن شود 

  • Love for the dead is not lasting: keep your love (fixed) on the Living One who increases spiritual life.
  • عشق بر مرده نباشد پایدار  ** عشق را بر حی جان‌افزای دار 

  • Afterwards, indeed, from that grave (nothing) comes to her (but) slumber (indifference and oblivion): from an insensible object is born in her the same insensibility,
  • بعد از آن زان گور خود خواب آیدش  ** از جمادی هم جمادی زایدش 

  • Because Love has carried off his enchantment and gone away: as soon as the fire is sped, (only) ashes remain.
  • زانک عشق افسون خود بربود و رفت  ** ماند خاکستر چو آتش رفت تفت 

  • The (wise) Elder (Pír) beholds in the (iron) brick all that the (ignorant) young man beholds in the mirror. 3275
  • آنچ بیند آن جوان در آینه  ** پیر اندر خشت می‌بیند همه 

  • The Elder is thy love, not (the owner of) a white beard. ‘Tis he (Love) that gives a helping hand to thousands who are in despair.
  • پیر عشق تست نه ریش سپید  ** دستگیر صد هزاران ناامید 

  • In (the hour of) separation Love fashions forms (of phantasy); in the hour of union the Formless One puts forth his head,
  • عشق صورتها بسازد در فراق  ** نامصور سر کند وقت تلاق 

  • Saying, “I am the ultimate origin of sobriety and intoxication: the beauty in (all) forms is reflected from Me.
  • که منم آن اصل اصل هوش و مست  ** بر صور آن حسن عکس ما بدست 

  • At this moment I have removed the veils: I have raised Beauty on high without intermediaries.
  • پرده‌ها را این زمان برداشتم  ** حسن را بی‌واسطه بفراشتم 

  • Because thou hast been much occupied with My reflexion, thou hast gained the power to contemplate My essence denuded (of the forms by which it is veiled). 3280
  • زانک بس با عکس من در بافتی  ** قوت تجرید ذاتم یافتی