Ghazal No. 167: Who will ask about you except you, tired and weary
غزل شماره ۱۶۷: کی بپرسد جز تو خسته و رنجور تو را
Who will ask about you, the tired and ailing, except you?
O Messiah, come for the sake of asking about the ailing.
کی بپرسد جز تو خسته و رنجور تو را
ای مسیح از پی پرسیدن رنجور بیا
Place your hand on the head of the ailing one and ask how he is
Do not think of his sin and do not reach out with vengeance.
دست خود بر سر رنجور بنه که چونی
از گناهش بمیندیش و به کین دست مخا
The one upon whom the sun of calamity has drawn its sword
Spread over his head the shadow of kindness and acceptance.
آنک خورشید بلا بر سر او تیغ زدست
گستران بر سر او سایه احسان و رضا
This guilty one is worthy of two hundred sufferings
But from that grace, there is no fitting reward except pardon and generosity.
این مقصر به دو صد رنج سزاوار شدست
لیک زان لطف به جز عفو و کرم نیست سزا
The heart that you nurtured with a hundred kinds of milk and sugar
Do not make it taste the poison of injustice with every breath after that.
آن دلی را که به صد شیر و شکر پروردی
مچشانش پس از آن هر نفسی زهر جفا
Since you have lifted your heart from me and my dwelling
The dam broke and a flood of calamity entered towards me.
تا تو برداشتهای دل ز من و مسکن من
بند بشکست و درآمد سوی من سیل بلا
You are a cure, when you come happily and show your face
The army of suffering will flee and turn their backs.
تو شفایی چو بیایی خوش و رو بنمایی
سپه رنج گریزند و نمایند قفا
To what doctor will you refer him, O water of life?
From the same place where the pain arrives, there is the cure.
به طبیبش چه حواله کنی ای آب حیات
از همان جا که رسد درد همان جاست دوا
The whole world is like a body and you are the head and soul of all
How can a body live whose head has been separated?
همه عالم چو تنند و تو سر و جان همه
کی شود زنده تنی که سر او گشت جدا
O you, the spring of life and the life of everyone
Our stream has dried up, open the water from this side.
ای تو سرچشمه حیوان و حیات همگان
جوی ما خشک شدهست آب از این سو بگشا
Except for these few words, it remained in the ailing heart
Until it sees your beautiful face, it will not say, by God.
جز از این چند سخن در دل رنجور بماند
تا نبیند رخ خوب تو نگوید به خدا
Ghazal No. 167: Who will ask about you except you, tired and weary
Book: Divan e Shams
Author: Jalāl al-Dīn Muḥammad Rūmī