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گفت با یزدان مه گیتی فروز
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گفت با یزدان مه گیتی فروز

تاب من شب را کند مانند روز

Moon that illuminates earth submitted to Allah; my light turns the night into day.

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یاد ایامی که بی لیل و نهار

خفته بودم در ضمیر روزگار

I remember the time when there was no night or day; I was deep asleep in the conscience of time.

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کوکبی اندر سواد من نبود

گردشی اندر نهاد من نبود

There was no star in my attendence; revolutionary movement was not in my nature.

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نی ز نورم دشت و در آئینه پوش

نی به دریا از جمال من خروش

When desert and human abode was not lit by my light; oceans had no restlessness (tides) because of (the attraction of my megnatic) beauty.

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آه زین نیرنگ و افسون وجود

وای زین تابانی و ذوق نمود

Alas! This was changed by the magic spell of being; I regret my brightness and urge for manifestation.

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تافتن از آفتاب آموختم

خاکدانی مرده ئی افروختم

I learnt shining from the Sun; and lightened the dead Earth.

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خاکدانی با فروغ و بی فراغ

چهرهٔ او از غلامی داغ داغ

Earth is lit (by me) but it has no joy or solace; its face has pimples of slavery.

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آدم او صورت ماهی به شست

آدمی یزدان کشی آدم پرست

Everyone on earth has a hook stuck in his throat like a fish; mankind has forgotten God and worships human beings.

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تا اسیر آب و گل کردی مرا

از طواف او خجل کردی مرا

By bounding me to soil and water, made me ashamed of revolving around it.

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این جهان از نور جان آگاه نیست

این جهان شایان مهر و ماه نیست

This world is not aware of the light of the soul; it does not deserve Sun and Moon.

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در فضای نیلگون او را بهل

رشتهٔ ما نوریان از وی گسل

Push this Earth into blue sky; cut its link with celestial beings like us.

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یا مرا از خدمت او واگذار

یا ز خاکش آدم دیگر بیار

Either relieve me (of duty) of serving it; or create a new Adam out of its soil.

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چشم بیدارم کبود و کور به

ای خدا این خاکدان بی نور به

My eye was better blind and lightless; leave this earthly abode without my light.

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از غلامی دل بمیرد در بدن

از غلامی روح گردد بار تن

In servitude heart dies inside the body; the soul becomes burden for the body.

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از غلامی ضعف پیری در شباب

از غلامی شیر غاب افکنده ناب

Slavery renders the young weak like the old; in slavery the (fiercefully young) lion sheds his teeth.

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از غلامی بزم ملت فرد فرد

این و آن با این و آن اندر نبرد

In slavery a nation is fragmented; and its individuals fight with each other.

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آن یکی اندر سجود این در قیام

کاروبارش چون صلوة بی امام

One group prostrates and the other stands up; life is like praying without prayer leader.

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در فتد هر فرد با فردی دگر

هر زمان هر فرد را دردی دگر

Everyone quarrels with other; everyone complains of some problem all the time.

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از غلامی مرد حق زنار بند

از غلامی گوهرش ناارجمند

In slavery the man of God becomes idol worshiper; slavery turns his precious potentialities worthless.

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شاخ او بی مهرگان عریان ز برگ

نیست اندر جان او جز بیم مرگ

Branches of his tree shed leaves without (autumn); he has no life as he is afraid of death every moment.

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کور ذوق و نیش را دانسته نوش

مرده ئی بی مرگ و نعش خود بدوش

He becomes so clueless that he takes poison as honey; dead without death and carrying his dead body on his shoulders.

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آبروی زندگی در باخته

چون خران با کاه و جو در ساخته

He has lost the dignity of life; like a donkey he is satisfied with hay and barley.

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ممکنش بنگر محال او نگر

رفت و بود ماه و سال او نگر

Observe his possible and impossible; watch his sense of time (and space).

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روزها در ماتم یکدیگرند

در خرام از ریگ ساعت کمترند

His days mourn each other (in state of perpetual mourning); speed of his movement (endeavour) is slower than sand-clock.

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شوره بوم از نیش کژدم خار خار

مور او اژدر گز و عقرب شکار

The soil of which has turned like thorns (brackish) because of stinging by scorpions; where ants hunt dragons and prey scorpions.

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صرصر او آتش دوزخ نژاد

زورق ابلیس را باد مراد

Its wind has heat of Hell; that acts as tail wind only for Devil’s barge.

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آتشی اندر هوا غلطیده ئی

شعله ئی در شعله ئی پیچیده ئی

There is fire in its swirling wind; flames flare up, intermingle and multiply.

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آتشی از دود پیچان تلخ پوش

آتشی تندر غو و دریا خروش

Fire that has grown bitter due to its swirling smoke, the fire which roars like thunder and rages like (rough) sea.

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در کنارش مارها اندر ستیز

مارها با کفچه های زهر ریز

On its banks poisonous snakes fight each other like cobras with their hoods full of poison.

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شعله اش گیرنده چون کلب عقور

هولناک و زنده سوز و مرده نور

Its flames pounce like a dog that bites; extremely frightening, burn them alive and extinguish the light of their life.

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در چنین دشت بلا صد روزگار

خوشتر از محکومی یک دم شمار

Spending centuries in such horrifying desert is better than a moment of slavery.

Sources

Persian text source: Ganjoor