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1919-1928

  • پس مرا دست دراز آمد یقین ** بر گذشته ز آسمان هفتمین‏
  • Therefore mine is surely a long hand that has passed beyond the Seventh Heaven.
  • دست من بنمود بر گردون هنر ** مقریا بر خوان که انشق القمر 1920
  • My hand showed (its) cunning upon the sky: O teacher of the Qur’án, recite the moon hath been cleft asunder.’
  • این صفت هم بهر ضعف عقلهاست ** با ضعیفان شرح قدرت کی رواست‏
  • This characteristic, moreover, is on account of the weakness of (men's) understandings: how is it possible to explain the (Divine) omnipotence to the weak?
  • خود بدانی چون بر آری سر ز خواب ** ختم شد و الله أعلم بالصواب‏
  • You will surely know when you lift your head from (this sensuous) sleep. ’Tis the end (of my discourse), and God knows best what is right.
  • مر ترا نه قوت خوردن بدی ** نه ره و پروای قی کردن بدی‏
  • “(If I had told you about the snake), you would not have been able to eat, nor would you have been capable of vomiting or cared (to do so).
  • می‏شنیدم فحش و خر می‏راندم ** رب یسر زیر لب می‏خواندم‏
  • I heard (your) abuse and went on with my work; I kept repeating under my lip (breath), ‘O Lord, make (it) easy!’
  • از سبب گفتن مرا دستور نه ** ترک تو گفتن مرا مقدور نه‏ 1925
  • I had not permission to speak of the cause, and I had not power to abandon you.
  • هر زمان می‏گفتم از درد درون ** اهد قومی إنهم لا یعلمون‏
  • From the grief in my heart I was saying continually, ‘Guide my people; verily, they know not’.”
  • سجده‏ها می‏کرد آن رسته ز رنج ** کای سعادت ای مرا اقبال و گنج‏
  • The man that had been delivered from woe was falling on his knees and saying, “O (thou who art) my bliss, O my fortune and treasure,
  • از خدا یابی جزاها ای شریف ** قوت شکرت ندارد این ضعیف‏
  • Thou wilt get rewards from God, O noble one; this weakling has not the power to thank thee.