Ghazal No. 351: Which is the physician of the incurable pain
غزل شماره ۳۵۱: طبیب درد بیدرمان کدامست
Who is the physician of incurable pain?
Who is the companion of the endless path?
طبیب درد بیدرمان کدامست
رفیق راه بیپایان کدامست
If it is reason, then what is madness?
And if it is the soul, then who is the beloved?
اگر عقلست پس دیوانگی چیست
وگر جانست پس جانان کدامست
The eternal world-illuminating lamp
Which is neither disbelief nor faith, what is it?
چراغ عالم افروز مخلد
که نی کفرست و نی ایمان کدامست
Full of truth, the eternal sea
Within it, what is the jewel of humanity?
پر از درست بحر لایزالی
درونش گوهر انسان کدامست
Objects have cloaks of servitude
Among the servants, who is the sultan?
غلامانه است اشیاء را قباها
میان بندگان سلطان کدامست
Not a single part of the world is without illness
Where is the shop of the physician of love?
یکی جزو جهان خود بیمرض نیست
طبیب عشق را دکان کدامست
Reason became helpless in the thought of the helpless
Who is the rebellious one, who is the bewildered one?
خرد عاجز شد اندر فکر عاجز
که سرکش کیست سرگردان کدامست
The measured idol searched much in the idol temple
What is the measure of the measured ones?
بت موزون به بتخانه بسی جست
که موزونات را میزان کدامست
What direction have you made this discourse your qibla?
Seek the lesson of the silent ones, what is it?
چه قبله کردهای این گفت و گو را
طلب کن درس خاموشان کدامست
Ghazal No. 351: Which is the physician of the incurable pain
Book: Divan e Shams
Author: Jalāl al-Dīn Muḥammad Rūmī