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بخش ۱۳ - التمثّل فی احتراق العشق و اظهاره / Section 13 - An Allegory on the Burning of Love and Its Manifestation

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رفت وقتی زنی نکو در راه
شده از کارهای مرد آگاه

دید مردی جوان مر آن زن را
کرد پیدا در آن زمان فن را

بر پی زن برفت مرد به راه
زن ز پس کرد با کرشمه نگاه

کای جوانمرد بر پی ام به چه کار
آمده ستی به خیره رو بگذار

مرد گفتا که عاشق تو شدم
ای چو عذرا ! چو وامق تو شدم

بیم آنست کز غم تو کنون
بدوم در جهان شوم مجنون

شد وجودم بر آن جمال ز دست
شیشهٔ جان به سنگ غم بشکست

با من اکنون نه حال ماند و نه هوش
شد زیادت مرا جهان فرموش

ظاهر و باطنم به تو مشغول
گشت و شد از جهانیان معزول

کرد حیلت بر او زن دانا
زانکه آن مرد بود بس کانا

گفت گر شد دلت به من مشغول
شد وجودم دل ترا مبذول

گفت زن گر جمال خواهر من
بنگری ساعتی شوی الکن

همچو ماه است در شب ده و چار
بنگر آنک چو صدهزار نگار

مرد کرد التفات زی پس و زن
گفت کای سر به سر تو حیلت و فن

عشق و پس التفات زی دگران ؟
سوی غیری به غافلی نگران ؟

زد ورا یک طپانچه بر رخسار
تا شد از درد چشم او خونبار

گفت کای فن فروش دستان خر
گر بدی از جهان به منت نظر

ور وجودت به من بدی مشغول
نبدی غیر من برت مقبول

کل تو سوی کل من ناظر
گر بدی کی شدی ز من صابر ؟

جز به من التفات کی کردی ؟
غم زشت و نکو کجا خوردی ؟

ور نهادت مرا بدی مطلق
به دگر کس کجا شدی ملحق ؟

سوی جز من چو التفات آری
از جمال رخم برات آری

مرد لافی نه مرد آلافی
ناف رنگی نه رنگ را نافی

سست بازار و سخت آزاری
خربزه خور نه خربزه کاری

سوخته مغز و خام گفتاری
سوده سودا و ساده بازاری

هرکه او مدعی بود در عشق
هست بیداد کرده او بر عشق

عشق را راه بر سلامت نیست
در ره عشق استقامت نیست

English translation

Once a beautiful woman was walking on the road, Fully aware of the ways of men. A young man saw that woman, And at that time displayed his artifice. The man went following the woman on the path; The woman looked back with coquetry, Saying, 'O young man, for what purpose are you following me? You have come in vain, go away and leave me.' The man said, 'I have fallen in love with you; O you who are like Azra! I have become your Wamiq. There is a fear that now from sorrow for you, I will run out into the world and become a madman. My existence is lost to that beauty; The glass of my soul is broken by the stone of sorrow. Now neither my state nor my senses remain; The world is largely forgotten by me. My outer and inner self are occupied with you; And have become isolated from the people of the world.' The wise woman played a trick on him, Because that man was quite foolish. She said, 'If your heart has become occupied with me, And my existence has captured your heart, If you were to look at the beauty of my sister, For a moment you would be left speechless. She is like the moon on the fourteenth night; Look there, she is like a hundred thousand beauties.' The man turned his attention behind him, and the woman Said, 'O you who are from head to toe trickery and artifice! Love, and then turning your attention to others? Looking heedlessly toward another?' She struck him a slap on the cheek, So hard that from the pain his eyes rained blood. She said, 'O seller of tricks, buyer of deceit! If out of the world your gaze was upon me, And if your existence was occupied with me, Other than me, no one would be acceptable to you. If your whole being were observing my whole being, When could you bear to be apart from me? When would you pay attention to anyone but me? Why would you care for the ugly or the beautiful? And if your nature were absolutely mine, How could you be attached to another person? When you bring your attention toward someone other than me, You bring a release from the beauty of my face. You are a man of boasts, not a man of true worth; You are the center of pretense, not the negator of pretense. Your market is weak, your harming is strong; You are an eater of melons, not a grower of melons. You are burnt in mind and raw in speech; You are worn-out in passion and simple in trade. Whoever is a claimant in love, He has committed an injustice against love. There is no path to safety in love; There is no steadfastness in the path of love.'

Updated 2026-07-03

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