How the vizier killed himself in seclusion.
بخش 32 - کشتن وزیر خویشتن را در خلوت
Poet: Rumi
Metre: فاعلاتن فاعلاتن فاعلن (رمل مسدس محذوف یا وزن مثنوی)
Poetic form: Masnavi
Toggle stanza 1بعد از آن چل روز دیگر در ببست
After that, he shut the door for other forty days (and then) killed himself and escaped from his existence.
When the people learned of his death, there came to pass at his grave the scene of the Resurrection.
So great a multitude gathered at his grave, tearing their hair, rending their garments in wild grief for him,
That only God can reckon the number of them—Arabs and Turks and Greeks and Kurds.
They put his (grave's) earth on their heads; they deemed anguish for him to be the remedy for themselves.
During a month those multitudes over his grave made a way for blood from their eyes (shed tears of anguish).
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