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بخش ۱۶ - عمعق بخارایی / Section 16 - Am'aq of Bukhara

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عمعق - رحمه الله تعالی، وی نیز از شعرای ماوراء النهر است و استاد شعرای وقت خود است و این چند بیت که در مفتتح یکی از قصاید گفته بغایت بدیع و لطیف است:
اگر موری سخن گوید و گر مویی روان دارد

من آن مور سخنگویم من آن مویم که جان دارد
تنم چون سایه مویست و دل چون دیده موران

ز هجر غالیه مویی که چون موران میان دارد
اگر با موی و با موری شبانروزی شوم همره

نه مور از من خبر یابد نه موی از من نشان دارد
به چشم مور در گنجم ز بس زاری و بس سستی

اگر خواهد مرا موری به چشم اندر نهان دارد
من آن مورم که از زاری مرا مویی بپوشاند

من آن مویم که از سستی کم از موری توان دارد

English translation

Am'aq - may God the Exalted have mercy on him, he too is among the poets of Transoxiana and was the master of the poets of his time, and these few couplets, which he spoke at the opening of one of his qasidas, are exceedingly novel and delicate:

If an ant should speak, and if a hair should possess a soul, I am that speaking ant, I am that hair which holds a soul.

My body is like the shadow of a hair, and my heart like the eye of ants, from separation from a musk-fragrant hair that has a waist like an ant's.

If with a hair and with an ant I should be a companion night and day, neither would the ant get word of me, nor would the hair hold a trace of me.

Within the eye of an ant I would fit, from so much lamenting and so much frailty; if an ant wished, it could keep me hidden within its eye.

I am that ant whom, from lamenting, a single hair could cover; I am that hair which, from frailty, has less strength than an ant.

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