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787-796

  • What is his name and profession and character? (Tell me) in order that I may compose an elegy on his gracious qualities.
  • چیست نام و پیشه و اوصاف او  ** تا بگویم مرثیه ز الطاف او 
  • I will make an elegy—for I am a poet—that I may carry away from here some provision and morsels of food.”
  • مرثیه سازم که مرد شاعرم  ** تا ازینجا برگ و لالنگی برم 
  • “Eh,” said one (of them), “are you mad? You are not a Shí‘ite, you are an enemy of the (Holy) Family.
  • آن یکی گفتش که هی دیوانه‌ای  ** تو نه‌ای شیعه عدو خانه‌ای 
  • Don't you know that the Day of ‘Áshúrá is (a day of) mourning for a single soul that is more excellent than a (whole) generation? 790
  • روز عاشوار نمی‌دانی که هست  ** ماتم جانی که از قرنی بهست 
  • How should this anguish (tragedy) be lightly esteemed by the true believer? Love for the ear-ring is in proportion to love for the ear.
  • پیش مومن کی بود این غصه خوار  ** قدر عشق گوش عشق گوشوار 
  • In the true believer's view the mourning for that pure spirit is more celebrated than a hundred Floods of Noah.”
  • پیش مومن ماتم آن پاک‌روح  ** شهره‌تر باشد ز صد طوفان نوح 
  • The poet's subtle discourse in criticism of the Shí‘ites of Aleppo.
  • نکته گفتن آن شاعر جهت طعن شیعه حلب 
  • “Yes,” said he; “but where (in relation to our time) is the epoch of Yazíd? When did this grievous tragedy occur? How late has (the news of) it arrived here!
  • گفت آری لیک کو دور یزید  ** کی بدست این غم چه دیر اینجا رسید 
  • The eyes of the blind have seen that loss, the ears of the deaf have heard that story.
  • چشم کوران آن خسارت را بدید  ** گوش کران آن حکایت را شنید 
  • Have ye been asleep till now, that (only) now ye have rent your garments in mourning? 795
  • خفته بودستید تا اکنون شما  ** که کنون جامه دریدیت از عزا 
  • Then, O sleepers, mourn for yourselves, for this heavy slumber is an evil death.
  • پس عزا بر خود کنید ای خفتگان  ** زانک بد مرگیست این خواب گران