A Dialogue Between Knowledge and Love

بخش 11 - محاورهٔ علم و عشق

Stanza 1
علم:

Knowledge

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نگاهم راز دار هفت و چار است
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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.

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جهان بینم به این سو باز کردند

مرا با آنسوی گردون چه کار است

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چکد صد نغمه از سازی که دارم

به بازار افکنم رازی که دارم

Stanza 2
عشق:

Love

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ز افسون تو دریا شعله زار است
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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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