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  • Do not thou threaten me with being killed, for I thirst lamentably for mine own blood.”
  • تو مکن تهدید از کشتن که من ** تشنه‌ی زارم به خون خویشتن

  • For lovers, there is a dying at every moment: verily, the dying of lovers is not of one sort.
  • عاشقان را هر زمانی مردنیست ** مردن عشاق خود یک نوع نیست

  • He (the lover) hath two hundred souls (lives) from the Soul of Guidance, and those two hundred he is sacrificing at every instant. 3835
  • او دو صد جان دارد از جان هدی ** وآن دوصد را می‌کند هر دم فدی

  • For each soul (life) he receives ten as its price: read from the Qur’án “ten like unto them.”
  • هر یکی جان را ستاند ده بها ** از نبی خوان عشرة امثالها

  • If that One of friendly countenance shed my blood, dancing (in triumph) I will strew (lavish) my soul (life) upon Him.
  • گر بریزد خون من آن دوست‌رو ** پای‌کوبان جان برافشانم برو

  • I have tried it: my death is (consists) in life: when I escape from this life, ’tis to endure for ever.
  • آزمودم مرگ من در زندگیست ** چون رهم زین زندگی پایندگیست

  • “Kill me, kill me, O trusty friends! Lo, in my being killed is life on life.”
  • اقتلونی اقتلونی یا ثقات ** ان فی قتلی حیاتا فی حیات

  • O Thou that makest the cheek radiant, O Spirit of everlastingness, draw my spirit to Thyself and generously bestow on me the meeting (with Thee). 3840
  • یا منیر الخد یا روح البقا ** اجتذب روحی وجد لی باللقا

  • I have a Beloved whose love roasts the bowels (of my heart): if He wished to walk upon mine eye, He would walk (upon it, and be welcome).
  • لی حبیب حبه یشوی الحشا ** لو یشا یمشی علی عینی مشی

  • Speak Persian, though Arabic is sweeter: Love indeed hath a hundred other tongues (besides these two).
  • پارسی گو گرچه تازی خوشترست ** عشق را خود صد زبان دیگرست

  • When the scent of that Charmer of hearts begins to fly (abroad), all those tongues become dumbfounded.
  • بوی آن دلبر چو پران می‌شود ** آن زبانها جمله حیران می‌شود

  • I will cease (from speech): the Sweetheart has begun to speak, be (all) ear—and God best knoweth the right course.
  • بس کنم دلبر در آمد در خطاب ** گوش شو والله اعلم بالصواب

  • Since the lover has repented, now beware (of misapprehension), for he will lecture, like the adepts (in mystical love), on the gallows. 3845
  • چونک عاشق توبه کرد اکنون بترس ** کو چو عیاران کند بر دار درس

  • Although this lover is going to Bukhárá, he is not going to (attend) lectures or to (learn from) a teacher.
  • گرچه این عاشق بخارا می‌رود ** نه به درس و نه به استا می‌رود

  • For lovers, the (only) lecturer is the beauty of the Beloved, their (only) book and lecture and lesson is His face.
  • عاشقان را شد مدرس حسن دوست ** دفتر و درس و سبقشان روی اوست

  • They are silent (outwardly), but the shrill noise of their repetition is going up to the throne and high-seat of their Friend.
  • خامشند و نعره‌ی تکرارشان ** می‌رود تا عرش و تخت یارشان

  • Their (only) lesson is enthusiasm and the whirling dance and quaking agitation; not the Ziyádát and the chapter on “the chain.”
  • درسشان آشوب و چرخ و زلزله ** نه زیاداتست و باب سلسله

  • The “chain” of these people (the lovers of God) is the musk-dropping curls (of the Beloved); they have the question of “the circle,” but it is the “circle” of the Friend. 3850
  • سلسله‌ی این قوم جعد مشکبار ** مسله‌ی دورست لیکن دور یار

  • If any one ask you about the question of “the purse,” tell (him) that God's treasure is not contained in purses.
  • مسله‌ی کیس ار بپرسد کس ترا ** گو نگنجد گنج حق در کیسه‌ها

  • If talk of khul‘ and mubárá is going on (among them), do not disapprove: (inwardly) mention is being made of “Bukhárá.”
  • گر دم خلع و مبارا می‌رود ** بد مبین ذکر بخارا می‌رود

  • The mention (recollection) of any thing produces a particular (spiritual) effect, inasmuch as every quality has a quiddity.
  • ذکر هر چیزی دهد خاصیتی ** زانک دارد هرصفت ماهیتی

  • In Bukhárá you attain to (perfection in) the sciences: when you turn to lowliness (ba-khwárí), you are freed from them.
  • در بخارا در هنرها بالغى ** چون به خوارى رو نهى ز آن فارغى

  • That man of Bukhárá had not the vexation of knowledge: he was fixing his eyes on the sun of vision. 3855
  • آن بخاری غصه‌ی دانش نداشت ** چشم بر خورشید بینش می‌گماشت

  • No one who in solitude has found the way to vision will seek power by means of the (diverse) kinds of knowledge.
  • هرکه درخلوت ببینش یافت راه ** او ز دانشها نجوید دستگاه

  • When he has become a boon-companion to the beauty of the Soul, he will have a disgust of traditional learning and knowledge.
  • با جمال جان چوشد هم‌کاسه‌ای ** باشدش ز اخبار و دانش تاسه‌ای

  • Vision is superior to knowledge: hence the present world prevails (over the next world) in the view of the vulgar,
  • دید بردانش بود غالب فرا ** زان همی دنیا بچربد عامه را

  • Because they regard this world as ready money, while they deem what concerns that (other) world to be (like) a debt.
  • زانک دنیا را همی‌بینند عین ** وآن جهانی را همی‌دانند دین

  • How that loving servant turned his face towards Bukhárá.
  • رو نهادن آن بنده‌ی عاشق سوی بخارا

  • With throbbing heart the lover, who shed tears mingled with blood, set out for Bukhárá in hot haste. 3860
  • رو نهاد آن عاشق خونابه‌ریز ** دل‌طپان سوی بخارا گرم و تیز

  • The sands of Ámún seemed to him like silk, the river Oxus seemed to him like a pond.
  • ریگ آمون پیش او همچون حریر ** آب جیحون پیش او چون آبگیر

  • To him that wilderness was like a rose-garden: he was falling on his back from laughter, like the (full-blown) rose.
  • آن بیابان پیش او چون گلستان ** می‌فتاد از خنده او چون گل‌ستان

  • The (material) candy is in Samarcand; but his lip got it from “Bukhárá,” and that (spiritual candy) became his creed.
  • در سمرقندست قند اما لبش ** از بخارا یافت و آن شد مذهبش

  • “O Bukhárá, thou hast increased understanding (in others) but thou hast robbed me of understanding and religion.
  • ای بخارا عقل‌افزا بوده‌ای ** لیکن ازمن عقل و دین بربوده‌ای

  • I am seeking the Full Moon: hence I am (thin) as the new moon. I am seeking the Sadr (Prince) in this ‘shoe-row’ (vestibule).” 3865
  • بدر می‌جویم از آنم چون هلال ** صدر می‌جویم درین صف نعال

  • When he described that “Bukhárá” looming black (in the distance), a whiteness (a mystic illumination) appeared in the blackness of his grief.
  • چون سواد آن بخارا را بدید ** در سواد غم بیاضی شد پدید

  • He fell (and lay) awhile senseless and outstretched: his reason flew into the garden of the mystery.
  • ساعتی افتاد بیهوش و دراز ** عقل او پرید در بستان راز

  • They were sprinkling rose-water on his head and face; they were unaware of the rose-water of his love.
  • بر سر و رویش گلابی می‌زدند ** از گلاب عشق او غافل بدند

  • He had beheld a hidden rose-garden: the raiding foray of Love had cut him off from himself.
  • او گلستانی نهانی دیده بود ** غارت عشقش ز خود ببریده بود

  • Thou, frozen (in spirit), art not worthy of this (inspiring) breath (of love): though thou art a reed (cane), thou art not associated with sugar. 3870
  • تو فسرده درخور این دم نه‌ای ** با شکر مقرون نه‌ای گرچه نیی

  • The baggage of intellect is with thee, and thou art (still) possessed of thy wits, for thou art unaware of armies which ye did not see.
  • رخت عقلت با توست و عاقلی ** کز جنودا لم تروها غافلی

  • How the reckless lover entered Bukhárá, and how his friends deterred him from showing himself.
  • در آمدن آن عاشق لاابالی در بخارا وتحذیر کردن دوستان او را از پیداشدن

  • Joyously he entered Bukhárá near his beloved and (him who was) the abode of (his) security,
  • اندر آمد در بخارا شادمان ** پیش معشوق خود و دارالامان

  • Like the man intoxicated (with love) who (in imagination) flies to heaven: the Moon embraces him and says, “Embrace (me)!”
  • همچو آن مستی که پرد بر اثیر ** مه کنارش گیرد و گوید که گیر

  • Every one that saw him in Bukhárá said (to him), “Arise (and go) before showing thyself! Do not sit (still)! Flee!
  • هرکه دیدش در بخارا گفت خیز ** پیش از پیدا شدن منشین گریز

  • For that Prince is seeking thee in anger, that he may wreak a ten years' vengeance on thy life. 3875
  • که ترا می‌جوید آن شه خشمگین ** تا کشد از جان تو ده ساله کین

  • By God, by God, do not plunge in thine own blood, do not rely on thy artful words and wiles.
  • الله الله درمیا در خون خویش ** تکیه کم کن بر دم و افسون خویش

  • Thou wert the Sadr-i Jahán's constable and a noble; thou wert the trusted (agent) and master-engineer (in his affairs).
  • شحنه‌ی صدر جهان بودی و راد ** معتمد بودی مهندس اوستاد

  • (Then) thou didst act treacherously and flee from punishment: thou hadst escaped: how hast thou let thyself be caught again?
  • غدو کردی وز جزا بگریختی ** رسته بودی باز چون آویختی

  • With a hundred devices thou didst flee from tribulation: has folly brought thee hither or (thy) fate?
  • از بلا بگریختی با صد حیل ** ابلهی آوردت اینجا یا اجل

  • O thou whose intellect jeers at Mercury (the celestial Scribe), Destiny makes a fool of intellect and the intelligent. 3880
  • ای که عقلت بر عطارد دق کند ** عقل و عاقل را قضا احمق کند

  • Luckless is the hare that seeks (to encounter) the lion: where is thy cleverness and intelligence and quick-wittedness?
  • نحس خرگوشی که باشد شیرجو ** زیرکی و عقل و چالاکیت کو

  • The wiles of Destiny are a hundred times as many (as thine): he (the Prophet) has said, ‘When Destiny comes, the wide field is straitened.’
  • هست صد چندین فسونهای قضا ** گفت اذا جاء القضا ضاق الفضا