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  • (When we meet) at this appointed time, O brave (frog), I never become weary of conversing with you.”
  • من بدین وقت معین ای دلیر  ** می‌نگردم از محاکات تو سیر 
  • The (ritual) prayer is five times (daily), but the guide for lovers is (the Verse), (they who are) in prayer continually.
  • پنج وقت آمد نماز و رهنمون  ** عاشقان را فی صلاة دائمون 
  • The wine-headache that is in those heads is not relieved by five (times) nor by five hundred thousand. 2670
  • نه به پنج آرام گیرد آن خمار  ** که در آن سرهاست نی پانصد هزار 
  • “Visit once a week” is not the ration for lovers; the soul of the sincere (lovers) has an intense craving to drink.
  • نیست زر غبا وظیفه‌ی عاشقان  ** سخت مستسقیست جان صادقان 
  • “Visit once a week” is not the ration for (those) fishes, since they feel no spiritual joy without the Sea.
  • نیست زر غبا وظیفه‌ی ماهیان  ** زانک بی‌دریا ندارند انس جان 
  • Notwithstanding the crop-sickness of the fishes, the water of this Sea, which is a tremendous place, is but a single draught (too little to satisfy them).
  • آب این دریا که هایل بقعه‌ایست  ** با خمار ماهیان خود جرعه‌ایست 
  • To the lover one moment of separation is as a year; to him a (whole) year's uninterrupted union is a (fleeting) fancy.
  • یک دم هجران بر عاشق چو سال  ** وصل سالی متصل پیشش خیال 
  • Love craves to drink and seeks him who craves to drink: this (Love) and that (lover) are at each other's heels, like Day and Night. 2675
  • عشق مستسقیست مستسقی‌طلب  ** در پی هم این و آن چون روز و شب 
  • Day is in love with Night and has lost control of itself; when you look (inwardly), (you will see that) Night is (even) more in love with it.
  • روز بر شب عاشقست و مضطرست  ** چون ببینی شب برو عاشق‌ترست 
  • Never for one instant do they cease from seeking; never for one moment do they cease from pursuing each other.
  • نیستشان از جست‌وجو یک لحظه‌ایست  ** از پی همشان یکی دم ایست نیست 
  • This one has caught the foot of that one, and that one the ear of this one: this one is distraught with that one, and that one is beside itself for this one.
  • این گرفته پای آن آن گوش این  ** این بر آن مدهوش و آن بی‌هوش این 
  • In the heart of the beloved the lover is all: Wámiq is always in the heart of ‘Adhrá.
  • در دل معشوق جمله عاشق است  ** در دل عذرا همیشه وامق است 
  • In the lover's heart is naught but the beloved: there is nothing to separate and divide them. 2680
  • در دل عاشق به جز معشوق نیست  ** در میانشان فارق و فاروق نیست 
  • These two bells are on one camel: how, then, in regard to these twain should (the injunction), “Visit once a week,” be admissible?
  • بر یکی اشتر بود این دو درا  ** پس چه زر غبا بگنجد این دو را 
  • Did any one (ever) pay recurring visits to himself? Was any one (ever) a companion to himself at regular intervals?
  • هیچ کس با خویش زر غبا نمود  ** هیچ کس با خود به نوبت یار بود 
  • That (of which I speak) is not the (sort of) oneness that reason apprehends: the apprehension of this (oneness) depends on a man's dying (to self);
  • آن یکیی نه که عقلش فهم کرد  ** فهم این موقوف شد بر مرگ مرد 
  • And if it were possible to perceive this (oneness) by means of reason, wherefore should self-violence have become a duty?
  • ور به عقل ادراک این ممکن بدی  ** قهر نفس از بهر چه واجب شدی 
  • How, with such (infinite) mercy as He hath, would the King of intellect say unnecessarily “Kill thyself”? 2685
  • با چنان رحمت که دارد شاه هش  ** بی‌ضرورت چون بگوید نفس کش 
  • How the mouse exerted himself to the utmost in supplication and humble entreaty and besought the water-frog to grant him access (at all times).
  • مبالغه کردن موش در لابه و زاری و وصلت جستن از چغز آبی 
  • He (the mouse) said, “O dear and affectionate friend, without (seeing) thy face I have not a moment's rest.
  • گفت کای یار عزیز مهرکار  ** من ندارم بی‌رخت یک‌دم قرار 
  • By day thou art my light and (power of) acquisition and strength; by night thou art my rest and comfort and sleep.
  • روز نور و مکسب و تابم توی  ** شب قرار و سلوت و خوابم توی 
  • It would be a generous act if thou wouldst make me happy and kindly remember me early and late.
  • از مروت باشد ار شادم کنی  ** وقت و بی‌وقت از کرم یادم کنی 
  • During (the period of) a (whole) day and night thou hast allowed me (only) breakfast-time for access (to thee), O well-wisher.
  • در شبان‌روزی وظیفه‌ی چاشتگاه  ** راتبه کردی وصال ای نیک‌خواه 
  • I feel in my liver five hundred cravings for drink, and bulimy (morbid hunger) is conjoined with every craving. 2690
  • پانصد استسقاستم اندر جگر  ** با هر استسقا قرین جوع البقر 
  • Thou, O prince, art unconcerned with my passion: pay the poor-tax on thy high estate, look (kindly) on (this) poor wretch.
  • بی‌نیازی از غم من ای امیر  ** ده زکات جاه و بنگر در فقیر 
  • This poor unmannerly wretch is not worthy (of thy favour); but thy universal grace is superior to (regard for) that.
  • این فقیر بی‌ادب نا درخورست  ** لیک لطف عام تو زان برترست