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1775-1784

  • How should I not wail bitterly on account of His deceit, since I am not in the circle of those intoxicated with Him? 1775
  • چون ننالم تلخ از دستان او ** چون نیم در حلقه‌‌ی مستان او
  • How shall I not be like night, without His day and without the favour of His day-illuming countenance?
  • چون نباشم همچو شب بی‌‌روز او ** بی‌‌وصال روی روز افروز او
  • His unsweetness is sweet in my soul: may my soul be sacrificed to the Beloved who grieves my heart!
  • ناخوش او خوش بود در جان من ** جان فدای یار دل رنجان من‌‌
  • I am in love with my grief and pain for the sake of pleasing my peerless King.
  • عاشقم بر رنج خویش و درد خویش ** بهر خشنودی شاه فرد خویش‌‌
  • I make the dust of sorrow a salve for mine eye, that the two seas of mine eyes may be filled with pearls.
  • خاک غم را سرمه سازم بهر چشم ** تا ز گوهر پر شود دو بحر چشم‌‌
  • The tears which people shed for His sake are pearls—and people think they are tears. 1780
  • اشک کان از بهر او بارند خلق ** گوهر است و اشک پندارند خلق‌‌
  • I am complaining of the Soul of the soul, (but in truth) I am not complaining: I am (only) relating.
  • من ز جان جان شکایت می‌‌کنم ** من نیم شاکی روایت می‌‌کنم‌‌
  • My heart is saying, “I am tormented by Him,” and I have (long) been laughing at its poor pretence.
  • دل همی‌‌گوید کز او رنجیده‌‌ام ** وز نفاق سست می‌‌خندیده‌‌ام‌‌
  • Do (me) right, O glory of the righteous, O Thou who art the dais, and I the threshold of Thy door!
  • راستی کن ای تو فخر راستان ** ای تو صدر و من درت را آستان‌‌
  • Where are threshold and dais in reality? In the quarter where our Beloved is, where are “we” and “I”?
  • آستان و صدر در معنی کجاست ** ما و من کو آن طرف کان یار ماست‌‌