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1596-1605

  • When you see the leaves of your spirit yellow and black; how know you not the anger of the King?
  • چون که برگ روح خود زرد و سیاه ** می‏ببینی چون ندانی خشم شاه‏
  • The King's sun, in the (zodiacal) sign of reproach, makes faces black as a piece of roasted meat.
  • آفتاب شاه در برج عتاب ** می‏کند روها سیه همچون کباب‏
  • Our souls are leaves for that Mercury (to write on): that white and black (writing) is our standard (criterion).
  • آن عطارد را ورقها جان ماست ** آن سپیدی و آن سیه میزان ماست‏
  • Again, he writes a patent in red and green, that (our) spirits may be delivered from melancholy and despair.
  • باز منشوری نویسد سرخ و سبز ** تا رهند ارواح از سودا و عجز
  • Red and green are Spring's cancellation (of winter); in regard (to their significance they are) like the (coloured) lines of the rainbow. 1600
  • سرخ و سبز افتاد نسخ نو بهار ** چون خط قوس و قزح در اعتبار
  • How reverence for the message of Solomon, on whom be peace, was reflected in the heart of Bilqís from the despicable form of the hoopoe.
  • عکس تعظیم پیغام سلیمان علیه السلام در دل بلقیس از صورت حقیر هدهد
  • Hundredfold mercy be on that Bilqís to whom God gave the intellect of a hundred men!
  • رحمت صد تو بر آن بلقیس باد ** که خدایش عقل صد مرده بداد
  • A hoopoe brought the letter with the (royal) sign-manual from Solomon—a few eloquent words.
  • هدهدی نامه بیاورد و نشان ** از سلیمان چند حرفی با بیان‏
  • (When) she read those pregnant sayings, she did not look with contempt on the messenger.
  • خواند او آن نکتهای با شمول ** با حقارت ننگرید اندر رسول‏
  • Her body saw him as a hoopoe, (but) her spirit saw him as the ‘Anqá; her senses saw him as a fleck of foam, (but) her heart saw him as the sea.
  • جسم هدهد دید و جان عنقاش دید ** حس چو کفی دید و دل دریاش دید
  • Because of these two-coloured (diverse) talismans (appearance and reality) the intellect is at war with the senses, as Mohammed with the likes of Abú Jahl. 1605
  • عقل با حس زین طلسمات دو رنگ ** چون محمد با ابو جهلان به جنگ‏