غزل شمارهٔ 2998
Poet: Rumi
Metre: مفعول فاعلات مفاعیل فاعلن (مضارع مثمن اخرب مکفوف محذوف)
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You swore an oath that henceforth you would be cruel; now you break your oath and finish with cruelty.
Today we have seized your skirt and are drawing; how long will you offer pretexts and cheat?
Idol, that lip of yours is smiling and giving good tidings that you have resolved henceforward to be true.
Since without you entreaty is not proper for us, what profits it? It is only proper when you vouchsafe the need.
Without your sea we flounder like fish on the land—so fish do when you part them from water.
The tyrant is cruel and the prisoner terrifies him with you; God does with you what you do in our case!
When you are cruel, with whom shall anyone terrify you? Only he who submits to whatever you demand.
Silence, do not sell the unique pearl; how do you fix a price for that which is without value?