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1992-2016

  • باز آن یک بار دیگر هفت شد ** مستی و حیرانی من زفت شد
  • Then again that one became seven once more: my intoxication and bewilderment waxed mighty.
  • اتصالاتی میان شمعها ** که نیاید بر زبان و گفت ما
  • (There were) such connexions between the candles as may not come (may not be uttered) on my tongue and (in) my speech.
  • آنک یک دیدن کند ادارک آن ** سالها نتوان نمودن از زبان
  • That which one look perceives, ’tis impossible during years to show it forth by the tongue.
  • آنک یک دم بیندش ادراک هوش ** سالها نتوان شنودن آن بگوش 1995
  • That which intellectual apprehension sees in one moment, ’tis impossible during years to hear it by the ear.
  • چونک پایانی ندارد رو الیک ** زانک لا احصی ثناء ما علیک
  • Since it hath no end, go (back) to thyself, for (as the Prophet aid), ‘I cannot reckon (worthy) any praise of Thee.’
  • پیشتر رفتم دوان کان شمعها ** تا چه چیزست از نشان کبریا
  • I advanced farther, running (and marvelling) what thing those candles are (which are one) of the signs of the Divine Majesty.
  • می‌شدم بی خویش و مدهوش و خراب ** تا بیفتادم ز تعجیل و شتاب
  • (Thus) I was going, beside myself and dumbfounded and deranged, till I fell down from making haste and speed.
  • ساعتی بی‌هوش و بی‌عقل اندرین ** اوفتادم بر سر خاک زمین
  • In this (state), senseless and witless, I lay fallen awhile upon the dust of the earth.
  • باز با هوش آمدم برخاستم ** در روش گویی نه سر نه پاستم 2000
  • Then I came back to my senses and rose up: you would say that in my faring I had neither head nor foot.
  • نمودن آن شمعها در نظر هفت مرد
  • How those candles appeared to the eye as seven men.
  • هفت شمع اندر نظر شد هفت مرد ** نورشان می‌شد به سقف لاژورد
  • The seven candles appeared to the eye as seven men: their light was mounting to the azure vault.
  • پیش آن انوار نور روز درد ** از صلابت نورها را می‌سترد
  • Beside those lights the daylight was (murky as) dregs: by their intensity they were obliterating (all other) lights.
  • باز شدن آن شمعها هفت درخت
  • How those candles now became seven trees.
  • باز هر یک مرد شد شکل درخت ** چشمم از سبزی ایشان نیکبخت
  • Then each man assumed the shape of a tree: my eye was happy in their greenery.
  • زانبهی برگ پیدا نیست شاخ ** برگ هم گم گشته از میوه‌ی فراخ
  • On account of the denseness of the leaves no boughs were visible; the leaves too had become scant (had almost vanished) on account of the plenteous fruit.
  • هر درختی شاخ بر سدره زده ** سدره چه بود از خلا بیرون شده 2005
  • Every tree had thrown its boughs above the Sidra: what of the Sidra? They had reached beyond the Void.
  • بیخ هر یک رفته در قعر زمین ** زیرتر از گاو و ماهی بد یقین
  • The root of each (tree) had gone (down) into the bottom of the earth: assuredly it was lower than the Ox and the Fish.
  • بیخشان از شاخ خندان‌روی‌تر ** عقل از آن اشکالشان زیر و زبر
  • Their roots were more smiling of face than the boughs: the intellect (was turned) upside down (confused and bewildered) by their shapes.
  • میوه‌ای که بر شکافیدی ز زور ** همچو آب از میوه جستی برق نور
  • From the fruit that was bursting forcibly flashes of light would spurt forth, like juice.
  • مخفی بودن آن درختان ازچشم خلق
  • How those trees were invisible to the people.
  • این عجب‌تر که بریشان می‌گذشت ** صد هزاران خلق از صحرا و دشت
  • More wondrous (than all else) was this, that hundreds of thousands of people were passing through the desert and plain beside them,
  • ز آرزوی سایه جان می‌باختند ** از گلیمی سایه‌بان می‌ساختند 2010
  • Hazarding their lives (ready to sacrifice everything) in desire for shade, and making a parasol out of a woollen garment,
  • سایه‌ی آن را نمی‌دیدند هیچ ** صد تفو بر دیده‌های پیچ پیچ
  • And not seeing the shade of those (trees) at all. A hundred spittings on (such) distorted eyes!
  • ختم کرده قهر حق بر دیده‌ها ** که نبیند ماه را بیند سها
  • The wrath of God had sealed their eyes, so that he (such a one) should not see the moon, (but) should see (only) Suhá.
  • ذره‌ای را بیند و خورشید نه ** لیک از لطف و کرم نومید نه
  • He sees a mote, (but) not the sun; yet he is not despairing of the grace and loving kindness of God.
  • کاروانها بی نوا وین میوه‌ها ** پخته می‌ریزد چه سحرست ای خدا
  • The caravans are without food, and (yet) these fruits are dropping ripe (beside them): O God, what magic is this?
  • سیب پوسیده همی‌چیدند خلق ** درهم افتاده بیغما خشک‌حلق 2015
  • With parched throats the people, having fallen pell-mell to plunder, were gathering the rotten apples,
  • گفته هر برگ و شکوفه آن غصون ** دم بدم یا لیت قوم یعلمون
  • (While) every leaf and bud of those boughs said continually, ‘Oh, would that my people knew!’