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  • If God gave me five hundred mouths, I would sing in description (praise) of thee, O (my) soul and world;
  • گر خدا دادی مرا پانصد دهان  ** گفتمی شرح تو ای جان و جهان 

  • (But) I have (only) one mouth, and even that one is crushed with shame before thee, O knower of the mystery.
  • یک دهان دارم من آن هم منکسر  ** در خجالت از تو ای دانای سر 

  • In sooth I am not more crushed than non-existence, from the mouth of which (all) these peoples have come (forth).
  • منکسرتر خود نباشم از عدم  ** کز دهانش آمدستند این امم 

  • A hundred thousand impressions of the Unseen World are waiting to spring forth graciously and kindly from non-existence.
  • صد هزار آثار غیبی منتظر  ** کز عدم بیرون جهد با لطف و بر 

  • Because of thy urgency my head is reeling: oh, I am dead in the presence of that bounty. 4215
  • از تقاضای تو می‌گردد سرم  ** ای ببرده من به پیش آن کرم 

  • Our desire (for thee) arises from thy urgency: wherever there is a wayfarer, ’tis the pull of God (that draws him on).
  • رغبت ما از تقاضای توست  ** جذبه‌ی حقست هر جا ره‌روست 

  • Does the dust leap upward without a wind? Does a ship voyage without the sea?
  • خاک بی‌بادی به بالا بر جهد  ** کشتی بی‌بحر پا در ره نهد 

  • None (ever) died in the presence of the Water of Life: compared with thy water the Water of Life is (mere) dregs.
  • پیش آب زندگانی کس نمرد  ** پیش آبت آب حیوانست درد 

  • The Water of Life is the goal of those to whom life is dear: by water the garden is (made) verdant and smiling.
  • آب حیوان قبله‌ی جان دوستان  ** ز آب باشد سبز و خندان بوستان 

  • (But) those who quaff the cup of death are living through His love: they have torn their hearts away from life and the Water of Life. 4220
  • مرگ آشامان ز عشقش زنده‌اند  ** دل ز جان و آب جان بر کنده‌اند 

  • When the water of Thy love gave us its hand (was gained by us), the Water of Life became worthless in our sight.
  • آب عشق تو چو ما را دست داد  ** آب حیوان شد به پیش ما کساد 

  • Every soul derives freshness from the Water of Life, but Thou art the Water (Source) of the Water of Life.
  • ز آب حیوان هست هر جان را نوی  ** لیک آب آب حیوانی توی 

  • Thou didst bestow on me a (spiritual) death and a resurrection continually, that I might experience the conquering power of that bounty (of Thine).
  • هر دمی مرگی و حشری دادیم  ** تا بدیدم دست برد آن کرم 

  • This (bodily) dying became (as unformidable) to me as sleeping, from my confidence that Thou, O God, wouldst raise me from the dead.
  • هم‌چو خفتن گشت این مردن مرا  ** ز اعتماد بعث کردن ای خدا 

  • If the Seven Seas become a mirage at every moment, Thou wilt take it (the water) by the ear and bring it (back), O Water (Source) of the water. 4225
  • هفت دریا هر دم ار گردد سراب  ** گوش گیری آوریش ای آب آب 

  • Reason is trembling with fear of death, but Love is bold: how should the stone be afraid of rain as the clod (is)?
  • عقل لرزان از اجل وان عشق شوخ  ** سنگ کی ترسد ز باران چون کلوخ 

  • This is the Fifth of the Scrolls (Books) of the Mathnawí: it is like the stars in the zodiacal signs of the spiritual sky.
  • از صحاف مثنوی این پنجمست  ** بر بروج چرخ جان چون انجمست 

  • Not every sense can find its way by the star: (none can do so) except the mariner acquainted with the star.
  • ره نیابد از ستاره هر حواس  ** جز که کشتیبان استاره‌شناس 

  • The lot of the others is naught but looking (at it): they are ignorant of its auspiciousness and (fortunate) conjunction.
  • جز نظاره نیست قسم دیگران  ** از سعودش غافلند و از قران 

  • During the nights till daybreak make thyself familiar with devil-burning stars like these, 4230
  • آشنایی گیر شبها تا به روز  ** با چنین استارهای دیوسوز 

  • Every one (of which) is hurling naphtha from the fortress of Heaven to drive away the evil-thinking devil.
  • هر یکی در دفع دیو بدگمان  ** هست نفط‌انداز قلعه‌ی آسمان 

  • To the devil the stars are (noxious) as a scorpion, (but) to the buyer (of Truth) it (the star) is the next of kin (the nearest and dearest).
  • اختر ار با دیو هم‌چون عقربست  ** مشتری را او ولی الاقربست 

  • If the Bow (Sagittarius) pierce the devil with an arrow, (yet) the Bucket (Aquarius) is full of water for the crops and fruit.
  • قوس اگر از تیر دوزد دیو را  ** دلو پر آبست زرع و میو را 

  • Though the Fish (Pisces) wreck the ship of error, (yet) for the friend (of Truth) it is (ploughing and) sowing like the bull.
  • حوت اگرچه کشتی غی بشکند  ** دوست را چون ثور کشتی می‌کند 

  • If the Sun rend Night to pieces, like a lion, (yet) there comes from it a satin robe of honour for the ruby. 4235
  • شمس اگر شب را بدرد چون اسد  ** لعل را زو خلعت اطلس رسد 

  • Every existence that emerged from non-existence is poison to one and sugar to another.
  • هر وجودی کز عدم بنمود سر  ** بر یکی زهرست و بر دیگر شکر 

  • Be a friend (of Truth) and become quit of unsweet qualities, so that you may eat sugar even from a jar of poison.
  • دوست شو وز خوی ناخوش شو بری  ** تا ز خمره‌ی زهر هم شکر خوری 

  • A (deadly) poison did no harm to Fárúq (‘Umar) because to him the antidote, discrimination (fárúqí), was (sweet as) candy.
  • زان نشد فاروق را زهری گزند  ** که بد آن تریاق فاروقیش قند