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2075-2084

  • پشت او خم گشت همچون پشت خم ** ابروان بر چشم همچون پالدم‌‌ 2075
  • His back became bent like the back of a wine-jar, the brows over his eyes like a crupper-strap.
  • گشت آواز لطیف جان فزاش ** زشت و نزد کس نیرزیدی به لاش‌‌
  • His charming soul-refreshing voice became ugly and worth nothing to any one.
  • آن نوای رشک زهره آمده ** همچو آواز خر پیری شده‌‌
  • The tone that had (once) been the envy of Zuhra (Venus) was now like the bray of an old donkey.
  • خود کدامین خوش که او ناخوش نشد ** یا کدامین سقف کان مفرش نشد
  • Truly, what sweet one is there that did not become unsweet, or what roof that did not become a carpet?—
  • غیر آواز عزیزان در صدور ** که بود از عکس دمشان نفخ صور
  • Except the voices of holy men in their breasts, from the repercussion of whose breath is the blast of the trumpet (of Resurrection).
  • اندرونی کاندرونها مست از اوست ** نیستی کاین هستهامان هست از اوست‌‌ 2080
  • (Theirs is) the heart by which (all) hearts are made drunken, (theirs is) the nonexistence whereby these existences of ours are made existent.
  • کهربای فکر و هر آواز او ** لذت الهام و وحی و راز او
  • He (the saint) is the amber (magnet) of (all) thought and of every voice; he is the (inward) delight of revelation and inspiration and (Divine) mystery.
  • چون که مطرب پیرتر گشت و ضعیف ** شد ز بی‌‌کسبی رهین یک رغیف‌‌
  • When the minstrel grew older and feeble, through not earning (anything) he became indebted for a single loaf of bread.
  • گفت عمر و مهلتم دادی بسی ** لطفها کردی خدایا با خسی‌‌
  • He said, “Thou hast given me long life and respite: O God, Thou hast bestowed (many) favours on a vile wretch.
  • معصیت ورزیده‌‌ام هفتاد سال ** باز نگرفتی ز من روزی نوال‌‌
  • For seventy years I have been committing sin, (yet) not for one day hast Thou withheld Thy bounty from me.