A Dialogue Between Knowledge and Love
بخش 11 - محاورهٔ علم و عشق
Poet: Allama Iqbal
Metre: مفاعیلن مفاعیلن فعولن (هزج مسدس محذوف یا وزن دوبیتی)
Poetic form: Multi-stanza Poem
Knowledge
Toggle stanza 1نگاهم راز دار هفت و چار است
نگاهم راز دار هفت و چار است
گرفتار کمندم روزگار است
My eyes have witnessed the secrets of the seven and the four, and with my lasso I have captured the world. I am an eye, and when I was opened I turned this way: Why should I bother about the other side of the heavens? A hundred songs flow from my instrument; I bring to market every secret I know.
جهان بینم به این سو باز کردند
مرا با آنسوی گردون چه کار است
چکد صد نغمه از سازی که دارم
به بازار افکنم رازی که دارم
Love
Toggle stanza 2ز افسون تو دریا شعله زار است
ز افسون تو دریا شعله زار است
هوا آتش گذار و زهردار است
Because of the spell you have cast the sea is in flames, the air spews fire and is filled with poison. When you and I were friends, you were a light; but you broke with me, and your light became a fire.
چو با من یار بودی نور بودی
بریدی از من و نور تو نار است
Love: Because of the spell you have cast the sea is in flames, the air spews fire and is filled with poison. When you and I were friends, you were a light; but you broke with me, and your light became a fire.
بخلوت خانهٔ لاهوت زادی
ولیکن در نخ شیطان فتادی
You were born in the innermost sanctum of the Divinity, but then fell into Satan’s trap.
بیا این خاکدان را گلستان ساز
جهان پیر را دیگر جوان ساز
Come; turn this earthly world into a garden, and make the old world young again.
بیا یک ذره از درد دلم گیر
ته گردون بهشت جاودان ساز
Come! Take just a little of my heart’s solicitude, and build, under the heavens, an everlasting paradise.
ز روز آفرینش همدم استیم
همان یک نغمه را زیر و بم استیم
We have been on intimate terms since the day of creation, and are the high and low notes of the same song.
Sources
Persian text source: Ganjoor

