Explaining the excellency of abstinence and hunger.

بخش 122 - در بیان فضیلت احتما و جوع

Poet: Rumi

Metre: فاعلاتن فاعلاتن فاعلن (رمل مسدس محذوف یا وزن مثنوی)

Rhyme: ت

Poems with the same metre and rhyme: 5

Poetic form: Masnavi

English translation: Nicholson
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جوع خود سلطان داروهاست هین
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جوع خود سلطان داروهاست هین

جوع در جان نه چنین خوارش مبین

Indeed hunger is the king of medicines: hark, lay hunger to thy heart, do not regard it with such contempt.

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جمله ناخوش از مجاعت خوش شدست

جمله خوشها بی‌مجاعتها ردست

Everything unsweet is made sweet by hunger: without hunger all sweet things are unacceptable.

Zameen

Poems with the Same Metre and Rhyme

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Persian text source: Ganjoor

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