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1544-1553

  • These two fellow-travellers (the reason and the flesh) are brigands waylaying each other: lost is the spirit that does not dismount from the body.
  • این دو همره یکدگر را راه‌زن ** گمره آن جان کو فرو ناید ز تن
  • The spirit, because of separation from the highest Heaven, is in a (great) want; the body, on account of passion for the thorn-shrub (of sensual pleasure), is like a she-camel. 1545
  • جان ز هجر عرش اندر فاقه‌ای ** تن ز عشق خاربن چون ناقه‌ای
  • The spirit unfolds its wings (to fly) upwards; the body has stuck its claws in the earth.
  • جان گشاید سوی بالا بالها ** در زده تن در زمین چنگالها
  • “So long as thou art with me, O thou who art mortally enamoured of thy home, then my spirit will remain far from Laylá.
  • تا تو با من باشی ای مرده‌ی وطن ** پس ز لیلی دور ماند جان من
  • From experiences of this kind my life-time, for many years, has gone (to waste), like (that of) the people of Moses in the desert.
  • روزگارم رفت زین گون حالها ** هم‌چو تیه و قوم موسی سالها
  • This journey to union was (only) a matter of two steps: because of thy noose I have remained sixty years on the way.
  • خطوتینی بود این ره تا وصال ** مانده‌ام در ره ز شستت شصت سال
  • The way is near (not far), but I have tarried very late: I have become sick of this riding, sick, sick.” 1550
  • راه نزدیک و بماندم سخت دیر ** سیر گشتم زین سواری سیرسیر
  • He (Majnún) threw himself headlong from the camel. He said, “I am consumed with grief: how long, how long?”
  • سرنگون خود را از اشتر در فکند ** گفت سوزیدم ز غم تا چندچند
  • The wide desert became (too) narrow for him: he flung himself on the stony place.
  • تنگ شد بر وی بیابان فراخ ** خویشتن افکند اندر سنگلاخ
  • He flung himself down so violently that the body of that courageous man was cracked.
  • آنچنان افکند خود را سخت زیر ** که مخلخل گشت جسم آن دلیر