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درویشی به عشق جفاکیشی گرفتار شد، به سر راهی می دوید و اشکی می ریخت و آهی می کشید و از وی به چشم مرحمت هرگز نگاهی نمی دید.
با او گفتند: معشوق تو همواره همخانه مستان است و همخوابه می پرستان. با درویشان یار نیست و با معتقدان جز بر سر انکار نی. طالب او همچو او می باید و مصاحب او همچو او می شاید. هیچ بهتر از آن نیست که دامن از او درچینی و پی کار خود بنشینی.

درویش چون این نصیحت شنود بخندید و گفت:
درد عشق است مرا بهره ز جانان، نخورم

غصه گر زو دگری حسن تجمل بیند
او گلستان جمال است عجب نیست کزو

خارکش خار برد طالب گل گل چیند

English translation

A dervish became ensnared in love for a cruel-natured beloved. He would run along the roadside, shed tears, and heave sighs, yet he never once received a glance of mercy from that beloved.

They said to him: Your beloved is forever the housemate of drunkards and the bedfellow of wine-worshippers. He is no companion to dervishes, and toward the devout he shows nothing but denial. His seeker must be like him, and his boon-companion must resemble him. There is nothing better than that you gather up your skirt away from him and sit down to tend to your own affairs.

When the dervish heard this counsel, he laughed and said:

The pain of love is my portion from the beloved; I shall not grieve If another beholds the beauty of his adornment.

He is a rose garden of beauty—it is no wonder that from him The thorn-gatherer carries off thorns while the seeker of the rose plucks the rose.

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