- I dare not expound the whole of this (subject): hindrance thereto is coming from those who are at the centre. 1680
- من تمام این نیارم گفت از آن ** منع میآید ز صاحب مرکزان
- Inasmuch as the forgetfulness and recollection of (God's) creatures are with him (depend on the perfect saint), and he comes at their call for help,
- چون فراموشی خلق و یادشان ** با وی است و او رسد فریادشان
- Every night that glorious one is emptying from their hearts hundreds of thousands of good and evil (thoughts),
- صد هزاران نیک و بد را آن بهی ** میکند هر شب ز دلهاشان تهی
- (While) in the daytime he is filling their hearts therewith— he is filling those oyster-shells with pearls.
- روز دلها را از آن پر میکند ** آن صدفها را پر از در میکند
- By (Divine) guidance (after sleep is past) all those thoughts of former things recognize the spirits (to which they were attached).
- آن همه اندیشهی پیشانها ** میشناسند از هدایت جانها
- Your handicraft and skill come (back) to you, that they may open to you the door of (ways and) means. 1685
- پیشه و فرهنگ تو آید به تو ** تا در اسباب بگشاید به تو
- The goldsmith's craft did not go to the ironsmith; the disposition of the good-natured man did not go to the disagreeable one.
- پیشه زرگر به آهنگر نشد ** خوی این خوش خو به آن منکر نشد
- On the day of Resurrection the handicrafts and dispositions will come, like articles of property, to the claimant (owner).
- پیشهها و خلقها همچون جهیز ** سوی خصم آیند روز رستخیز
- After sleep also, the handicrafts and dispositions come back in haste to him that claims them as his.
- پیشهها و خلقها از بعد خواب ** واپس آید هم به خصم خود شتاب
- At the hour of dawn the handicrafts and thoughts went to the same place where that good and evil (formerly) were.
- پیشهها و اندیشهها در وقت صبح ** هم بدانجا شد که بود آن حسن و قبح
- Like carrier pigeons, they bring things useful (to know) from (other) cities to their own city. 1690
- چون کبوترهای پیک از شهرها ** سوی شهر خویش آرد بهرها
- How the parrot heard what those parrots had done, and died in the cage, and how the merchant made lament for her.
- شنیدن آن طوطی حرکت آن طوطیان و مردن آن طوطی در قفس و نوحهی خواجه بر وی
- When the bird heard what that (other) parrot had done, thereupon she trembled, fell, and became cold.
- چون شنید آن مرغ کان طوطی چه کرد ** پس بلرزید اوفتاد و گشت سرد
- The merchant, seeing her thus fallen, sprang up and dashed his cap on the ground.
- خواجه چون دیدش فتاده همچنین ** بر جهید و زد کله را بر زمین
- When he saw her in this guise and in this state, the merchant sprang up and tore the breast of his garment.
- چون بدین رنگ و بدین حالش بدید ** خواجه بر جست و گریبان را درید
- He said, “O beautiful parrot with thy sweet cry, what is this that has happened to thee? Why hast thou become like this?
- گفت ای طوطی خوب خوش حنین ** این چه بودت این چرا گشتی چنین
- Oh, alas for my sweet-voiced bird! Oh, alas for my bosom-friend and confidant! 1695
- ای دریغا مرغ خوش آواز من ** ای دریغا هم دم و هم راز من
- Oh, alas for my melodious bird, the wine of my spirit and my garden and my sweet basil!
- ای دریغا مرغ خوش الحان من ** راح روح و روضه و ریحان من
- Had Solomon possessed a bird like this, how indeed should he have become occupied with those (other) birds?
- گر سلیمان را چنین مرغی بدی ** کی خود او مشغول آن مرغان شدی
- Oh, alas for the bird which I gained cheaply, and (so) soon turned my face away from her countenance!
- ای دریغا مرغ کارزان یافتم ** زود روی از روی او بر تافتم
- O tongue, thou art a great damage (very injurious) to mankind, (but) since thou art speaking, what should I say to thee?
- ای زبان تو بس زیانی بر وری ** چون تویی گویا چه گویم من ترا
- O tongue, thou art both the fire and the stack: how long wilt thou dart this fire upon this stack? 1700
- ای زبان هم آتش و هم خرمنی ** چند این آتش در این خرمن زنی
- Secretly my soul is groaning because of thee, although it is doing whatsoever thou biddest it.
- در نهان جان از تو افغان میکند ** گر چه هر چه گوییاش آن میکند
- O tongue, thou art a treasure without end. O tongue, thou art also a disease without remedy.
- ای زبان هم گنج بیپایان تویی ** ای زبان هم رنج بیدرمان تویی
- Thou art at once a whistle and decoy for birds, and a comforter in the desolation of absence (from the Beloved).
- هم صفیر و خدعهی مرغان تویی ** هم انیس وحشت هجران تویی
- How long wilt thou grant me mercy, O merciless one, O thou who hast drawn the bow to take vengeance on me?
- چند امانم میدهی ای بیامان ** ای تو زه کرده به کین من کمان
- Lo, thou hast made my bird fly away. Do not browse (any more) in the pasture of injustice! 1705
- نک بپرانیده ای مرغ مرا ** در چراگاه ستم کم کن چرا
- Either answer me or give redress or mention to me (what will be) the means of (producing) joy.
- یا جواب من بگو یا داد ده ** یا مرا ز اسباب شادی یاد ده
- Oh, alas for my darkness-consuming light! Oh, alas for my day-enkindling dawn!
- ای دریغا نور ظلمت سوز من ** ای دریغا صبح روز افروز من
- Oh, alas for my bird of goodly flight, that has flown from my end (my last state) to my beginning (my first state).
- ای دریغا مرغ خوش پرواز من ** ز انتها پریده تا آغاز من
- The ignorant man is in love with pain unto everlasting. Arise and read (in the Qur’án) I swear as far as (the words) in trouble.
- عاشق رنج است نادان تا ابد ** خیز لا أقسم بخوان تا فی کبد
- With thy face I was free from trouble, and in thy river I was unsoiled by froth. 1710
- از کبد فارغ بدم با روی تو ** وز زبد صافی بدم در جوی تو
- These cries of ‘Alas’ are (caused by) the phantasy (idea) of seeing (the Beloved) and (by) separation from my present existence.
- این دریغاها خیال دیدن است ** وز وجود نقد خود ببریدن است
- ’Twas the jealousy of God, and there is no device against God: where is a heart that is not (shattered) in a hundred pieces by God's love?
- غیرت حق بود و با حق چاره نیست ** کو دلی کز حکم حق صد پاره نیست
- The jealousy (of God) is this, that He is other than all things, that He is beyond explanation and the noise of words.
- غیرت آن باشد که او غیر همه ست ** آن که افزون از بیان و دمدمه ست
- Oh, alas! Would that my tears were an ocean, that they might be strewn as an offering to the fair charmer!
- ای دریغا اشک من دریا بدی ** تا نثار دل بر زیبا بدی
- My parrot, my clever-headed bird, the interpreter of my thought and inmost consciousness, 1715
- طوطی من مرغ زیرکسار من ** ترجمان فکرت و اسرار من
- She has told me from the first, that I might remember it, whatsoever should come to me as my allotted portion of right and wrong.”
- هر چه روزی داد و ناداد آیدم ** او ز اول گفته تا یاد آیدم
- The parrot whose voice comes from (Divine) inspiration and whose beginning was before the beginning of existence—
- طوطیی کاید ز وحی آواز او ** پیش از آغاز وجود آغاز او
- That parrot is hidden within thee: thou hast seen the reflexion of her upon this and that (the things of the phenomenal world).
- اندرون تست آن طوطی نهان ** عکس او را دیده تو بر این و آن
- She takes away thy joy, and because of her thou art rejoicing: thou receivest injury from her as though it were justice.
- میبرد شادیت را تو شاد از او ** میپذیری ظلم را چون داد از او
- O thou who wert burning the soul for the body's sake, thou hast burned (destroyed) the soul and illumined (delighted) the body. 1720
- ای که جان را بهر تن میسوختی ** سوختی جان را و تن افروختی
- I am burning (with love of God): does any one want tinder, let him set his rubbish ablaze with fire from me.
- سوختم من سوخته خواهد کسی ** تا ز من آتش زند اندر خسی
- Inasmuch as tinder is combustible, take tinder that catches fire (readily).
- سوخته چون قابل آتش بود ** سوخته بستان که آتش کش بود
- O alas, O alas, O alas that such a moon became hidden under the clouds!
- ای دریغا ای دریغا ای دریغ ** کانچنان ماهی نهان شد زیر میغ
- How should I utter a word?—for the fire in my heart is grown fierce, the lion of separation (from the Beloved) has become raging and blood-shedding.
- چون زنم دم کاتش دل تیز شد ** شیر هجر آشفته و خون ریز شد
- One that even when sober is violent and furious, how will it be when he takes the wine-cup in his hand? 1725
- آن که او هوشیار خود تند است و مست ** چون بود چون او قدح گیرد به دست
- The furious Lion who is beyond description is too great for (cannot be contained in) the wide expanse of the meadow.
- شیر مستی کز صفت بیرون بود ** از بسیط مرغزار افزون بود
- I am thinking of rhymes, and my Sweetheart says to me, “Do not think of aught except vision of Me.
- قافیه اندیشم و دل دار من ** گویدم مندیش جز دیدار من
- Sit at thy ease, My rhyme-meditating (friend): in My presence thou art rhymed with (attached to) felicity.
- خوش نشین ای قافیه اندیش من ** قافیهی دولت تویی در پیش من
- What are words that thou shouldst think of them? What are words? Thorns in the hedge of the vineyard.
- حرف چه بود تا تو اندیشی از آن ** حرف چه بود خار دیوار رزان