1Cademy - بخش ۸ - فصل فی ذکرالعشق و فضیلته و صفة‌العشق والعاشق والمعشوق ذکرُالعشق یُریح القلوب و یُزیل الکروب / Section 8 - Chapter on the Mention of Love, Its Virtue, and the Description of Love, the Lover, and the Beloved; the Mention of Love Soothes Hearts and Removes Sorrows

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حدیقة الحقیقه و شریعة الطریقه / Hadiqat al-Haqiqah (The Walled Garden of Truth)

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بخش ۸ - فصل فی ذکرالعشق و فضیلته و صفة‌العشق والعاشق والمعشوق ذکرُالعشق یُریح القلوب و یُزیل الکروب / Section 8 - Chapter on the Mention of Love, Its Virtue, and the Description of Love, the Lover, and the Beloved; the Mention of Love Soothes Hearts and Removes Sorrows

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دلبر جان ربای، عشق آمد
سر بر و سرنمای، عشق آمد

عشق با سربریده گوید راز
زانکه داند که سر بود غماز

خیز و بنمای عشق را قامت
که مؤذن بگفت قدقامت

عشق گویندهٔ نهان سخن ست
عشق پوشیدهٔ برهنه تن ست

عشق هیچ آفریده را نبود
عاشقی جز رسیده را نبود

آب آتش فروز عشق آمد
آتش آب سوز عشق آمد

عشق بی چار میخ تن باشد
مرغ دانا قفس شکن باشد

جان که دور از یگانگی باشد
دان که چون مرغ خانگی باشد

کش سوی علو خود سفر نبود
پر بود لیک اوج پر نبود

همتش آن بود که دانه خورد
قوتش آنکه گرد خانه پرد

بندهٔ عشق باش تا برهی
از بلاها و زشتی و تبهی

بندهٔ عشق جان حر باشد
مرد کشتی چه مرد در باشد

سر کشتی ز آرزو دان پر
قعر دریاست جای طالب در

طالب در و انگهی کشتی
در نیابی نیت بدین زشتی

طمع از در آبدار ببر
خرزی را چه ره بود زی در

عزم خشکی بر اسب و بر خر کن
چون به دریا رسی قدم سر کن

مرد در جوی را به دریا بار
جان و سر دان همیشه پای افزار

سفر آب را به سر شو پیش
اندر آموز هم ز سایهٔ خویش

در چنین جوی ورنه پیش دکان
تو و خرمهره ای و تایی نان

تا از این سایه در هراسی تو
در ز خرمهره کی شناسی تو

نیست در عشق حظ خود موجود
عاشقان را چکار با مقصود

عشق و مقصود کافری باشد
عاشق از کام خود بری باشد

عاشق آنست کو ز جان و ز تن
زود برخیزد او نگفته سخن

جان و تن را بسی محل ننهد
گنج را سکهٔ دغل ننهد

تا بود جعفری به لون چو ماه
ننهد بدره ای سیم سیاه

کردگار لطیف و خالق بار
هست خود پاک و پاک خواهد کار

بر صدف در چو یافت جانت بنه
ورنه خرمهره را ز دست مده

قالت از سایهٔ هواست برو
لاف گه برگ طاعتت به دو جو

خطهٔ خاک لهو و بازی راست
عالم پاک پاکبازی راست

بیخودان را ز عشق فائده است
عشق و مقصود خویش بیهده است

عاشقان سر نهند در شب تار
تو برآنی که چون بری دستار

عشق آتش نشان بی آبست
عشق بسیار جوی کم یابست

عشق چون دست داد پشت شکست
پای عاشق دو دست چرخ ببست

ای دریغا که با تو این معنی
نتوان گفت زانکه هست عری

English translation

The life-stealing sweetheart, Love, has arrived The head-severing and head-showing, Love, has arrived Love tells its secret to the severed head Because it knows the head would be a talebearer Arise and show your stature to Love For the muezzin has called the 'Qad Qamat' (prayer is established) Love is the speaker of hidden words Love is the clothed one with a naked body Love belongs to no created being Being a lover belongs to none but the one who has arrived The fire-kindling water, Love, has arrived The water-burning fire, Love, has arrived Love exists without the four pegs of the body The wise bird is a cage-breaker The soul that is far from unity Know that it is like a domestic fowl Which has no journey towards its own heights It has wings, but lacks the zenith of flight Its ambition is merely to eat grain Its power is only to fly around the house Be a slave of Love so that you may escape From afflictions, ugliness, and ruin The slave of Love is a free soul How can a man of the ship be a man of pearls? Know the ship's head is full of desire The bottom of the sea is the place for the seeker of pearls A seeker of pearls, and yet on a ship? You won't find pearls with such an ugly intention Cut off your greed for the lustrous pearl What path does a glass bead have to a pearl? Resolve to travel on land upon a horse and a donkey When you reach the sea, make your head your feet The man in the stream to the sea's shore Must know that his soul and head are always his footwear Advance in the water journey on your head Learn this even from your own shadow In such a stream, otherwise in front of the shop It is you, a glass bead, and a half-loaf of bread As long as you are terrified of this shadow How will you distinguish a pearl from a glass bead? There is no portion of self present in Love What business do lovers have with a goal? Love and having a goal is infidelity The lover is free from his own desires The lover is he who from soul and body Rises quickly, having spoken no word He places no great value on soul and body He does not place a counterfeit coin in the treasure As long as there is pure gold colored like the moon He does not offer a pouch of black silver The Subtle Creator and the Maker Is Himself pure, and demands pure deeds When your soul finds the pearl in the oyster, lay it down Otherwise, do not let go of the glass bead Your speech is from the shadow of lust, go away At the time of boasting, the leaf of your obedience is worth two barleycorns The realm of dust is for amusement and play The pure realm is for the pure players (who risk all) The selfless ones benefit from Love Love and one's own goal is in vain Lovers lay down their heads in the dark night You are intent on how you can snatch a turban Love is a fire-extinguisher without water Love is much sought after but rarely found When Love gives a hand, it breaks the back The feet of the lover have bound the two hands of the wheel (of heaven) Alas, that this meaning with you Cannot be spoken, because you are devoid of it

Updated 2026-07-03

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