Robaei

Quatrain 174 from Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam

By @hamed

گر آمدنم به خود بُدی، نامدمی

ور نیز شدن به من بُدی، کی شدمی؟

به زان نَبُدی که اندر این دیر خراب

نه آمدمی نه شدمی نه بُدَمی

Description:

A Beautiful Rubai by Omar Khayyám
English Translation:

Had my coming been up to me, I would not have come.
And if my becoming were up to me, when would I have become?

It is better not to have been in this ruined inn,
Neither to have come, nor to have become, nor …

Quatrain 173 from Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam

By @hamed

زان کوزهٔ می که نیست در وی ضرری

پر کن قدحی بخور به من ده دگری

زان پیشتر ای صنم که در رهگذری

خاک من و تو کوزه‌ کند کوزه‌گری

Description:

A Beautiful Rubai by Omar Khayyám

English Translation:

Fill up a cup from that jug of wine that has no harm,
And give me another after that.

Before we pass by on this journey,
A potter will make a jug from both you and me.

Quatrain 172 from Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam

By @hamed

در گوش دلم گفت فلک پنهانی

حکمی که قضا بود ز من می‌دانی

در گردش خویش اگر مرا دست بدی

خود را برهاندمی ز سرگردانی

Description:

A Beautiful Rubai by Omar Khayyám
English Translation:

Heaven whispered secretly into my heart,
"Do you know the decree that fate has assigned to me?"

If in its rotations it had dealt me a bad hand,
I would have saved myself from this wandering.

Quatrain 171 from Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam

By @hamed

در کارگه کوزه‌گری کردم رای

در پایه چرخ دیدم استاد بپای

میکرد دلیر کوزه را دسته و سر

از کله پادشاه و از دست گدای

Description:

A Beautiful Rubai by Omar Khayy-ám

English Translation:

I pondered in the potter's workshop,
And saw the master at the base of the wheel.

Boldly he formed the pot's neck and head,
From the skull of a king and the hand of a beggar.

Quatrain 170 from Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam

By @hamed

خوش باش که پخته‌اند سودای تو دی

فارغ شده‌اند از تمنای تو دی

قصه چه کنم که به تقاضای تو دی

دادند قرار کار فردای تو دی

Description:

A Beautiful Rubai by Omar Khayyam

English Translation:

Be happy, for your desires have matured today.
They have become free from your longing today.

What story can I tell? For at your request today,
They have given you a promise for tomorrow's work.

Quatrain 169 from Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam

By @hamed

چندان که نگاه می‌کنم هر سویی

در باغ روان است ز کوثر جویی

صحرا چو بهشت است ز کوثر کم گوی

بنشین به بهشت با بهشتی رویی

Description:

A Beautiful Rubai by Omar Khayyam

English Translation:

Wherever I look, in every direction,
A stream from the celestial river flows through the garden.

The desert is like paradise, with its flowing, hidden river.
Sit in paradise with a heavenly face.

Quatrain 168 from Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam

By @hamed

تا چند حدیث پنج و چار ای ساقی

مشکل چه یکی چه صد هزار ای ساقی

خاکیم همه چنگ بساز ای ساقی

بادیم همه باده بیار ای ساقی

Description:

A Beautiful Rubai by Omar Khayyam

English Translation:

How long shall we debate the numbers, O cupbearer?
What does it matter if it's one or a hundred thousand, O cupbearer?

We are all but dust, so strike up the music, O cupbearer.
We are all but wind, so pour the wine, O …

Quatrain 167 from Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam

By @hamed

پیری دیدم به خانهٔ خماری

گفتم نکنی ز رفتگان اخباری

گفتا می خور که همچو ما بسیاری

رفتند و خبر باز نیامد باری

Description:

A Beautiful Rubai by Omar Khayyam

English Translation:

I saw old age in the house of wine,
And said, "Do you not bring news of those who have passed?"

It replied, "Drink, for many like us have gone,
And no news has ever returned."

Quatrain 166 from Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam

By @hamed

بر گیر پیاله و سبو ای دلجوی

فارغ بنشین به کشتزار و لب جوی

بس شخص عزیز را که چرخ بدخوی

صد بار پیاله کرد و صد بار سبوی

Description:

A Beautiful Rubai by Omar Khayyam

English Translation:

Take up the goblet and ewer, O seeker of love,
Sit carefree in the fields beside a stream;

Many a dear one, by fortune's ill will,
Has shattered a hundred goblets and ewers.

Quatrain 165 from Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam

By @hamed

بر شاخ امید اگر بری یافتمی

هم رشته خویش را سری یافتمی

تا چند ز تنگنای زندان وجود

ای کاش سوی عدم دری یافتمی

Description:

A Beautiful Rubai by Omar Khayyam

English Translation:

If I could find a berry on the branch of hope,
I would also find the end of my own thread.

How long must I remain in the narrow confines of this prison of existence?
I wish I could find a door towards non-existence.

Quatrain 164 from Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam

By @hamed

بر سنگ زدم دوش سبوی کاشی

سرمست بدم که کردم این عیاشی

با من به زبان حال می‌گفت سبو

من چون تو بدم تو نیز چون من باشی

Description:

A Beautiful Rubai by Omar Khayyam

English Translation:

Yesterday, I dashed a glazed earthenware jug against a stone,
Drunk, I committed this folly.

The jug spoke to me in a silent language, saying:
"I was like you, and you too shall be like me."

Quatrain 163 from Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam

By @hamed

ای کاش که جای آرمیدن بودی

یا این ره دور را رسیدن بودی

کاش از پی صد هزار سال از دل خاک

چون سبزه امید بر دمیدن بودی

Description:

A Beautiful Rubai by Omar Khayyam

English Translation:

Oh, I wish you were a resting place,
Or that the end of this long journey was near.

I wish that after a hundred thousand years in the earth,
You would sprout like a hopeful blade of grass.