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1869-1878

  • این سزید از ما چنان آمد ز ما ** ریگ اندر چشم چه فزاید عما
  • This was meet in us; such (acts naturally) issued from us: what is increased by sand in the eye? Blindness.
  • آن سزد از تو أیا کحل عزیز ** که بیابد از تو هر ناچیز چیز 1870
  • (But) ’tis meet in thee, O precious collyrium, that every nothing should gain from thee something.
  • ز آتش این ظالمانت دل کباب ** از تو جمله اهد قومی بد خطاب‏
  • Thy heart is roasted by the fire of these unrighteous men, (yet) all thy appeal (to God) has been, “Guide my people!”
  • کان عودی در تو گر آتش زنند ** این جهان از عطر و ریحان آگنند
  • Thou art a mine of aloes-wood: if they set thee afire, they will fill this world with otto of roses and sweet basil.
  • تو نه آن عودی کز آتش کم شود ** تو نه آن روحی که اسیر غم شود
  • Thou art not that aloes-wood that is minished by the fire: thou art not that spirit that is made captive by grief.
  • عود سوزد کان عود از سوز دور ** باد کی حمله برد بر اصل نور
  • Aloes-wood burns, (but) the mine of aloes-wood is far from burning: how should the wind (of evil words) assail the source of (spiritual) light?
  • ای ز تو مر آسمانها را صفا ** ای جفای تو نکوتر از وفا 1875
  • Oh, ’tis from thee the heavens have (their) purity; oh, thy unkindness is better than kindness,
  • ز انکه از عاقل جفایی گر رود ** از وفای جاهلان آن به بود
  • Because if an unkindness come from the wise it is better than the kindness of the ignorant.
  • گفت پیغمبر عداوت از خرد ** بهتر از مهری که از جاهل رسد
  • The Prophet said, “Enmity (proceeding) from wisdom is better than the love that comes from a fool.”
  • رنجانیدن امیری خفته‏ای را که مار در دهانش رفته بود
  • How an Amír harassed a sleeping man into whose mouth a snake had gone.
  • عاقلی بر اسب می‏آمد سوار ** در دهان خفته‏ای می‏رفت مار
  • A wise man was riding along (at the moment when) a snake was going into the mouth of a man asleep.