Ghazal No. 339: The dance is the comfort of the living soul

غزل شماره ۳۳۹: سماع آرام جان زندگانست

Sama' is the peace of the soul of life

One knows who has the soul of the soul

سماع آرام جان زندگانیست

کسی داند که او را جان جانست

One wants to wake up

Who is sleeping in the middle of the garden

کسی خواهد که او بیدار گردد

که او خفته میان بوستان‌ست

But he who is sleeping in prison

If he wakes up, it is to his detriment

ولیک آن کو به زندان خفته باشد

اگر بیدار گردد در زیان‌ست

Make sama' there, for there is a wedding there

Not in mourning, for that is a place of lamentation

سماع آن جا بکن کان جا عروسیست

نه در ماتم که آن جای فغانست

One who has not seen his own essence

One whose moon is hidden from his eyes

کسی کو جوهر خود را ندیدهست

کسی کان ماه از چشمش نهانست

What need has such a person for sama' and tambourine?

Sama' is for the union with the heart-ravishing one

چنین کس را سماع و دف چه باید

سماع از بهر وصل دلستان‌ست

For those whose path is towards the qibla

Sama' is this world and that world

کسانی را که روشان سوی قبله‌ست

سماع این جهان و آن جهانست

Especially the circle that is in sama'

They are turning, and the Kaaba is in the middle

خصوصا حلقه‌ای کاندر سماعند

همی‌گردند و کعبه در میانست

If you want the mine of sugar, it is there

And the finger of sugar itself is free

اگر کان شکر خواهی همان جاست

ور انگشت شکر خود رایگانست