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  • اینچنین نخلی که لطف یار ماست ** چونک ما دزدیم نخلش دار ماست
  • Such a date-palm, which is our Friend's favour—since we are robbers, His date-palm is our gallows.
  • اینچنین مشکین که زلف میر ماست ** چونک بی‌عقلیم این زنجیر ماست
  • Such a musky (fragrant) object, which is the tress of our Prince—since we are demented, this (tress) is our chain.
  • اینچنین لطفی چو نیلی می‌رود ** چونک فرعونیم چون خون می‌شود 3785
  • Such a (Divine) grace is flowing like a Nile—since we are Pharaohs, it is becoming like blood.
  • خون همی‌گوید من آبم هین مریز ** یوسفم گرگ از توم ای پر ستیز
  • The blood is saying, “I am water. Beware, do not spill (me)! I am (really) Joseph, (but) you make me the wolf, O contentious man.”
  • تو نمی‌بینی که یار بردبار ** چونک با او ضد شدی گردد چو مار
  • Don't you see that a long-suffering friend becomes like a snake when you have grown hostile to him?
  • لحم او و شحم او دیگر نشد ** او چنان بد جز که از منظر نشد
  • His flesh and fat (real nature) is unchanged: (’tis) only in appearance (that) he has become so evil.
  • عزم کردن آن وکیل ازعشق کی رجوع کند به بخارا لاابالی‌وار
  • How that Wakíl, (moved) by love, made up his mind to return to Bukhárá recklessly.
  • شمع مریم را بهل افروخته ** که بخارا می‌رود آن سوخته
  • Leave the candle of Mary lighted, for that ardent (lover) is going to Bukhárá,
  • سخت بی‌صبر و در آتشدان تیز ** رو سوی صدر جهان می‌کن گریز 3790
  • Mightily impatient and in the blazing furnace (of love). Go, make a transition to the (story of the) Sadr-i Jahán.
  • این بخارا منبع دانش بود ** پس بخاراییست هر کنش بود
  • This “Bukhárá” is the source if knowledge; therefore every one who has that (knowledge) is a native of “Bukhárá.”
  • پیش شیخی در بخارا اندری ** تا به خواری در بخارا ننگری
  • In the presence of a Shaykh you are in “Bukhárá”: see that you do not look on “Bukhárá” as lowly.
  • جز به خواری در بخارای دلش ** راه ندهد جزر و مد مشکلش
  • Save with lowliness (shown by you), its difficult ebb and flow will not give (you) entrance into the “Bukhárá” of his heart.
  • ای خنک آن را که ذلت نفسه ** وای آنکس را که یردی رفسه
  • Oh, happy he whose carnal soul is abased! Alas for that one whose recalcitrance destroys (him)!
  • فرقت صدر جهان در جان او ** پاره پاره کرده بود ارکان او 3795
  • Separation from the Sadr-i Jahán had shattered (the Wakíl’s) foundations to pieces in his soul.
  • گفت بر خیزم هم‌آنجا واروم ** کافر ار گشتم دگر ره بگروم
  • He said, “I will rise up and go back thither: if I have become an infidel, I will believe once more.
  • واروم آنجا بیفتم پیش او ** پیش آن صدر نکواندیش او
  • I will go back thither and fall before him-before its (Bukhárá’s) kindly-thinking Sadr (Prince).
  • گویم افکندم به پیشت جان خویش ** زنده کن یا سر ببر ما را چو میش
  • I will say, ‘I throw myself before thee: revive (me) or cut off my head, like a sheep!
  • کشته و مرده به پیشت ای قمر ** به که شاه زندگان جای دگر
  • ‘Tis better to be slain and dead before thee, O Moon, that to be the king of the living in another place.
  • آزمودم من هزاران بار بیش ** بی تو شیرین می‌نبینم عیش خویش 3800
  • I have put it to the test more than a thousand times: I don not deem my life sweet without thee.
  • غن لی یا منیتی لحن النشور ** ابرکی یا ناقتی تم السرور
  • Sing to me, O object of my desire, the melody of resurrection! Kneel, O my she-camel! The joy is complete.
  • ابلعی یا ارض دمعی قد کفی ** اشربی یا نفس وردا قد صفا
  • O earth, swallow my tears- surely they are enough. Drink, O my soul, a draught that is now pure!
  • عدت یا عیدی الینا مرحبا ** نعم ما روحت یا ریح الصبا
  • Thou hast returned to us, O my festival! Welcome! How goodly is the refreshment thou hast brought, O Zephyr!’”
  • گفت ای یاران روان گشتم وداع ** سوی آن صدری که امیرست و مطاع
  • He said, “Farewell, my friends: I have set out towards the Sadr who commands and is obeyed.
  • دم‌بدم در سوز بریان می‌شوم ** هرچه بادا باد آنجا می‌روم 3805
  • Moment by moment I am being roasted in the flames. (of separation from him): I will go thither, come what may!
  • گرچه دل چون سنگ خارا می‌کند ** جان من عزم بخارا می‌کند
  • Although he is making his heart like a hard rock (against me), my soul is bound for Bukhárá.
  • مسکن یارست و شهر شاه من ** پیش عاشق این بود حب الوطن
  • It is the abode of my Friend and the city of my King: in the lover’s eyes this is (the meaning of) love of one’s native land.”
  • پرسیدن معشوقی از عاشق غریب خود کی از شهرها کدام شهر را خوشتر یافتی و انبوه‌تر و محتشم‌تر و پر نعمت‌تر و دلگشاتر
  • How a loved one asked her lover who had travelled in foreign countries, “Which city didst thou find the fairest and most thronged and the most magnificent and rich and charming?”