Ghazal No. 348: A sound that comes from the bow is an augury
غزل شماره ۳۴۸: صدایی کز کمان آید نذیریست
A sound that comes from the bow is a warning
For often with its sound is the wound of an arrow
صدایی کز کمان آید نذیریست
که اغلب با صدایش زخم تیریست
Look at the effects of the effective one in the water
Seeking the effect is the staff of every blind person
مؤثر را نگر در آب آثار
کاثر جستن عصای هر ضریریست
Thus, 'You do not see me' is 'You will see me'
Seeking sight is from the inspiration of the seer
پس لا تبصرونت تبصرونیست
بصر جستن ز الهام بصیریست
Whatever you have, you were not seeking it
The requests are warnings and glad tidings
تو هر چه داری نه جویانش بودی
طلبها گوش گیری و بشیریست
Act so that the requests become more
The one with much harvest has abundant greed
چنان کن که طلبها بیش گردد
کثیرالزرع را طمع وفیریست
Do not despair of the injustice you have done
For the sea of generosity is accepting of repentance
مشو نومید از ظلمی که کردی
که دریای کرم توبه پذیریست
Your sins will become praise and acts of worship
For in accepting repentance, He is unparalleled
گناهت را کند تسبیح و طاعات
که در توبه پذیری بینظیریست
Be broken and humble here
For generosity seeks wherever there is a poor person
شکسته باش و خاکی باش این جا
که میجوید کرم هر جا فقیریست
Generosity filled its skirt with gold and brought it
So that it may buy back wherever there is a captive
کرم دامن پر از زر کرد و آورد
که تا وا میخرد هر جا اسیریست
He grants honor to the one who is humiliated
He grants greatness to the one who is insignificant
عزیزی بخشد آن کس را که خواریست
بزرگی بخشد آن را که حقیریست
For existence always seeks non-existence
Zakat does not come where there is a commander
که هستی نیستی جوید همیشه
زکات آن جا نیاید که امیریست
Because the manifestation of something is its opposite
From this, the opposite of the two opposites is apparent
ازیرا مظهر چیزیست ضدش
از این دو ضد را ضد خود ظهیریست
If you write on a black board
It will be hidden, for both are like pitch
تو بر تخته سیاهی گر نویسی
نهان گردد که هر دو همچو قیریست
There is a difference from wetness to when the line is wet
When it becomes dry, it is hidden like a conscience
بود فرقی ز تری تا ترست خط
چو گردد خشک پنهان چون ضمیریست
Be silent, even though its explanation is countless
Natures are the enemy of every multitude
خمش کن گر چه شرحش بیشمارست
طبیعتها عدو هر کثیریست
Ghazal No. 348: A sound that comes from the bow is an augury
Book: Divan e Shams
Author: Jalāl al-Dīn Muḥammad Rūmī