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1968-1977

  • تا نمانی غرق موج زشتیی  ** که نباشد از پناهی پشتیی 
  • (But) until thou art drowning in the waves of an evil plight in which there is no help (to be obtained) from any refuge,
  • یاد ناری از سفینه‌ی راستین  ** ننگری رد چارق و در پوستین 
  • Thou wilt never call to mind the right ship (for thy voyage): thou wilt never look at thy shoon and sheepskin jacket.
  • چونک درمانی به غرقاب فنا  ** پس ظلمنا ورد سازی بر ولا  1970
  • When thou art left helpless in the overwhelming waters of destruction, then thou wilt incessantly make (the words) we have done wrong thy litany;
  • دیو گوید بنگرید این خام را  ** سر برید این مرغ بی‌هنگام را 
  • (But) the Devil will say, “Look ye at this half-baked (fool)! Cut off the head of this untimely bird (this cock that crows too late)!”
  • دور این خصلت ز فرهنگ ایاز  ** که پدید آید نمازش بی‌نماز 
  • Far from the wisdom of Ayáz is this characteristic, (namely), that his prayer should be uttered without (being a real) prayer.
  • او خروس آسمان بوده ز پیش  ** نعره‌های او همه در وقت خویش 
  • He has been the cock of Heaven from of old: all his crowings are (taking place) at their (proper) time.
  • در معنی این کی ارنا الاشیاء کما هی و معنی این کی لو کشف الغطاء ما از ددت یقینا و قوله در هر که تو از دیده‌ی بد می‌نگری از چنبره‌ی وجود خود می‌نگری پایه‌ی کژ کژ افکند سایه 
  • On the meaning of this (Tradition), “Show unto us the things as they are (in reality)”; and on the meaning of this (saying), “If the covering were lifted, my certainty would not be increased”; and on his (the poet's) verse: “When thou regardest any one with a malign eye, thou art regarding him from the hoop (narrow circle) of thy (self-)existence.” (Hemistich): “The crooked ladder casts a crooked shadow.”
  • ای خروسان از وی آموزید بانگ  ** بانگ بهر حق کند نه بهر دانگ 
  • O cocks, learn crowing from him: he crows for God's sake, not for the sake of pence.
  • صبح کاذب آید و نفریبدش  ** صبح کاذب عالم و نیک و بدش  1975
  • The false dawn comes and does not deceive him: the false dawn is the World with its good and evil.
  • اهل دنیا عقل ناقص داشتند  ** تا که صبح صادقش پنداشتند 
  • The worldly people had defective understandings, so that they deemed it to be the true dawn.
  • صبح کاذب کاروانها را زدست  ** که به بوی روز بیرون آمدست 
  • The false dawn has waylaid (many) caravans which have set out in hope of the daybreak.