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212-221

  • آن که کشتستم پی مادون من ** می‌‌نداند که نخسبد خون من‌‌
  • He who hath slain me for that which is other than I, does not he know that my blood sleepeth not (will not rest unavenged)?
  • بر من است امروز و فردا بر وی است ** خون چون من کس چنین ضایع کی است‌‌
  • To-day it lies on me and to-morrow it lies on him: when does the blood of one such as I am go to waste like this?
  • گر چه دیوار افکند سایه‌‌ی دراز ** باز گردد سوی او آن سایه باز
  • Although the wall casts a long shadow, (yet at last) the shadow turns back again towards it.
  • این جهان کوه است و فعل ما ندا ** سوی ما آید نداها را صدا 215
  • This world is the mountain, and our action the shout: the echo of the shouts comes (back) to us.”
  • این بگفت و رفت در دم زیر خاک ** آن کنیزک شد ز عشق و رنج پاک‌‌
  • He said this and at the (same) moment went under the earth (gave up the ghost). The handmaiden was purged of love and pain,
  • ز انکه عشق مردگان پاینده نیست ** ز انکه مرده سوی ما آینده نیست‌‌
  • Because love of the dead is not enduring, because the dead one is never coming (back) to us;
  • عشق زنده در روان و در بصر ** هر دمی باشد ز غنچه تازه‌‌تر
  • (But) love of the living is every moment fresher than a bud in the spirit and in the sight.
  • عشق آن زنده گزین کاو باقی است ** کز شراب جان فزایت ساقی است‌‌
  • Choose the love of that Living One who is everlasting, who gives thee to drink of the wine that increases life.
  • عشق آن بگزین که جمله انبیا ** یافتند از عشق او کار و کیا 220
  • Choose the love of Him from whose love all the prophets gained power and glory.
  • تو مگو ما را بدان شه بار نیست ** با کریمان کارها دشوار نیست‌‌
  • Do not say, “We have no admission to that King.” Dealings with the generous are not difficult.
  • بیان آن که کشتن و زهر دادن مرد زرگر به اشارت الهی بود نه به هوای نفس و تامل فاسد
  • Setting forth how the slaying and poisoning of the goldsmith was (prompted) by Divine suggestion, not by sensual desire and wicked meditation.