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

English translation: Nicholson
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بعد از آن چل روز دیگر در ببست
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بعد از آن چل روز دیگر در ببست
خویش کشت و از وجود خود برست

After that, he shut the door for other forty days (and then) killed himself and escaped from his existence.

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چونک خلق از مرگ او آگاه شد
بر سر گورش قیامتگاه شد

When the people learned of his death, there came to pass at his grave the scene of the Resurrection.

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خلق چندان جمع شد بر گور او
مو کنان جامه‌دران در شور او

So great a multitude gathered at his grave, tearing their hair, rending their garments in wild grief for him,

4
کان عدد را هم خدا داند شمرد
از عرب وز ترک و از رومی و کرد

That only God can reckon the number of them—Arabs and Turks and Greeks and Kurds.

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خاک او کردند بر سرهای خویش
درد او دیدند درمان جای خویش

They put his (grave's) earth on their heads; they deemed anguish for him to be the remedy for themselves.

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آن خلایق بر سر گورش مهی
کرده خون را از دو چشم خود رهی

During a month those multitudes over his grave made a way for blood from their eyes (shed tears of anguish).

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Persian text source: Ganjoor

Audio source: Ganjoor