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696-705

  • آب را و خاک را بر هم زدی ** ز آب و گل نقش تن آدم زدی‏
  • Thou didst beat water and earth together: from water and clay Thou didst mould the body of Adam.
  • نسبتش دادی و جفت و خال و عم ** با هزار اندیشه و شادی و غم‏
  • Thou gavest him (Man) lineage and wife and uncles, maternal and paternal, with a thousand thoughts and joys and griefs.
  • باز بعضی را رهایی داده‏ای ** زین غم و شادی جدایی داده‏ای‏
  • Again, to some Thou hast given deliverance: Thou hast parted them from this grief and joy;
  • برده‏ای از خویش و پیوند و سرشت ** کرده‏ای در چشم او هر خوب زشت‏
  • Thou hast borne them away from kindred and relatives and (their own) nature, Thou hast made every fair thing foul in his (such a one's) eyes.
  • هر چه محسوس است او رد می‏کند ** و انچه ناپیداست مسند می‏کند 700
  • He spurns all that is perceived by the senses, and leans for support on that which is invisible.
  • عشق او پیدا و معشوقش نهان ** یار بیرون فتنه‏ی او در جهان‏
  • His love is manifest and his Beloved is hidden: the Friend is outside (of the world), (but) His fascination is in the world.
  • این رها کن عشقهای صورتی ** نیست بر صورت نه بر روی ستی‏
  • Give up this (belief). Loves (felt) for what is endued with form have not as their object the (outward) form or the lady's face.
  • آن چه معشوق است صورت نیست آن ** خواه عشق این جهان خواه آن جهان‏
  • That which is the object of love is not the form, whether it be love for (the things of) this world or yonder world.
  • آن چه بر صورت تو عاشق گشته‏ای ** چون برون شد جان چرایش هشته‏ای‏
  • That which you have come to love for its form—why have you abandoned it after the spirit has fled?
  • صورتش بر جاست این سیری ز چیست ** عاشقا واجو که معشوق تو کیست‏ 705
  • Its form is still there: whence (then) this satiety (disgust)? O lover, inquire who your beloved (really) is.