بخش 15 - مناجات

O God who art without peer, show favour! Since Thou hast bestowed on (our) ear this discourse as an ear-ring,

Take hold of our ear and draw us along to the assembly where the joyous revellers drink of Thy wine.

Forasmuch as Thou hast caused a waft of its perfume to reach us, do not stopple the head (mouth) of that wine-skin, O Lord of the Judgement!

Whether they are male or female, they (all Thy creatures) drink from Thee: O Thou whose help is besought, Thou art stintless in giving.

O Thou by whom the unspoken prayer is answered, who bestowest at every moment a hundred bounties on the heart,

Thou hast limned some letters of writing: rocks have become (soft) as wax for love of them.

Thou hast scribed the nún of the eyebrow, the sád of the eye, and the jím of the ear as a distraction to a hundred minds and understandings.

At each moment Thou shapest beauteously pictured forms of phantasy, suitable to every thought, upon (the page of) non-existence.

On the tablet of phantasy Thou inscribest wondrous letters— eye and profile and cheek and mole.

I am drunken with desire for non-existence, not for the existent, because the Beloved of (the world of) non-existence is more faithful.

He (God) made the intellect a reader of those figured characters, that thereby