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2013-2037

  • For one familiar (as I am) with thy manhood, where is a Rustam that I might tell (him) a single barley-corn (thereof) out of (thy) hundred stacks?
  • محرم مردیت را کو رستمی  ** تا ز صد خرمن یکی جو گفتمی 
  • When I wish to sigh forth thy secret, like ‘Alí I put my head down into a well.
  • چون بخواهم کز سرت آهی کنم  ** چون علی سر را فرو چاهی کنم 
  • Since his brethren have vindictive hearts, the bottom of the well is (the) best (place) for my Joseph. 2015
  • چونک اخوان را دل کینه‌ورست  ** یوسفم را قعر چه اولیترست 
  • I have become intoxicated, I will set about making a row: what of the well? I will pitch my tent in the open plain.
  • مست گشتم خویش بر غوغا زنم  ** چه چه باشد خیمه بر صحرا زنم 
  • Put the fiery wine in my hand, and then behold the pomp and glory that is enjoyed by the drunken!
  • بر کف من نه شراب آتشین  ** وانگه آن کر و فر مستانه بین 
  • Bid the fakir wait (though he is still) without the treasure, for at this moment we are drowned in the syrup (of union).
  • منتظر گو باش بی گنج آن فقیر  ** زآنک ما غرقیم این دم در عصیر 
  • Now, O fakir, seek refuge with God: do not seek help from me who am drowned;
  • از خدا خواه ای فقیر این دم پناه  ** از من غرقه شده یاری مخواه 
  • For I have no concern with lending support (to you): I have no recollection of myself and my own beard. 2020
  • که مرا پروای آن اسناد نیست  ** از خود و از ریش خویشم یاد نیست 
  • How should there be room for wind of the moustache (self-assertion) and water of the face (personal reputation) in the wine in which there is no room for a single hair (of self-existence)?
  • باد سبلت کی بگنجد و آب رو  ** در شرابی که نگنجد تار مو 
  • Hand (him) a heavy (large) goblet, O cup-bearer: deliver the Khwája from his beard and moustache.
  • در ده ای ساقی یکی رطلی گران  ** خواجه را از ریش و سبلت وا رهان 
  • His arrogance is (contemptuously) curling a moustache at us, but he is (really) tearing out his beard in envy of us.
  • نخوتش بر ما سبالی می‌زند  ** لیک ریش از رشک ما بر می‌کند 
  • (He is) mated by Him (God), mated by Him, mated by Him, for we are acquainted with his impostures.
  • مات او و مات او و مات او  ** که همی‌دانیم تزویرات او 
  • The Pír is seeing distinctly, hair by hair, what will become of him (the Khwája) after a hundred years. 2025
  • از پس صد سال آنچ آید ازو  ** پیر می‌بیند معین مو به مو 
  • What does the common man see in the mirror that the Pír does not see in the crude brick (of iron)?
  • اندر آیینه چه بیند مرد عام  ** که نبیند پیر اندر خشت خام 
  • That which the bushy-bearded man never saw in his own house is apparent at once to him who has but a few hairs on his chin.
  • آنچ لحیانی به خانه‌ی خود ندید  ** هست بر کوسه یکایک آن پدید 
  • Go to the Sea of whose fish thou art born: how hast thou fallen, like rubbish, into the beard?
  • رو به دریایی که ماهی‌زاده‌ای  ** هم‌چو خس در ریش چون افتاده‌ای 
  • Thou art not rubbish—far be it from thee! Thou art an object of envy to the pearl: thou hast the best right (to dwell) amidst the waves and the sea.
  • خس نه‌ای دور از تو رشک گوهری  ** در میان موج و بحر اولیتری 
  • ’Tis the Sea of Unity: there is no fellow or consort: its pearls and fishes are not other than its waves. 2030
  • بحر وحدانست جفت و زوج نیست  ** گوهر و ماهیش غیر موج نیست 
  • Oh, absurd, absurd to make (aught) its partner. Far be it from that Sea and its pure waves!
  • ای محال و ای محال اشراک او  ** دور از آن دریا و موج پاک او 
  • In the Sea there is no partnership or perplexity; but what can I say to him that sees double? Nothing, nothing.
  • نیست اندر بحر شرک و پیچ پیچ  ** لیک با احول چه گویم هیچ هیچ 
  • Since we are the mates of those who see double, O idolater, ’tis necessary to speak in the fashion of him who attributes a partner (to God).
  • چونک جفت احولانیم ای شمن  ** لازم آید مشرکانه دم زدن 
  • That Unity is beyond description and condition: nothing comes into the arena (domain) of speech except duality.
  • آن یکیی زان سوی وصفست و حال  ** جز دوی ناید به میدان مقال 
  • Either, like the double-seeing man, drink in (absorb and be satisfied with) this duality, or close your mouth and be very silent; 2035
  • یا چو احول این دوی را نوش کن  ** یا دهان بر دوز و خوش خاموش کن 
  • Or (do both) in turns, now silence, now speech: (in the company of the uninitiated) beat the drum like him that sees double, and peace (be with you)!
  • یا به نوبت گه سکوت و گه کلام  ** احولانه طبل می‌زن والسلام 
  • When you see a confidant, declare the mystery of the Spirit: (if) you see the rose, sing loud like nightingales.
  • چون ببینی محرمی گو سر جان  ** گل ببینی نعره زن چون بلبلان