Ghazal No. 365: Know that the times are the image of the passion

غزل شماره ۳۶۵: می‌دان که زمانه نقش سوداست

Know that time is a picture of melancholy

Our true form is outside of time

می‌دان که زمانه نقش سوداست

بیرون ز زمانه صورت ماست

For this time is a cage

Outside is all Mount Qaf and the Simorgh

زیرا قفسی‌ست این زمانه

بیرون همه کوه قاف و عنقاست

The world is a stream and we are outside

Our shadow has fallen on the stream

جویی‌ست جهان و ما برونیم

بر جوی فتاده سایه ماست

Here is the secret of a difficult point

It is not here, but it is here

این جا سر نکته‌ای‌ست مشکل

این جا نبود ولیکن این جاست

Do not laugh except in the face of the soul, O heart

Without Him, all laughter increases weeping

جز در رخ جان مخند ای دل

بی او همه خنده گریه افزاست

That is not a heart that is narrow

Because the heart is broad and wide

آن دل نبود که باشد او تنگ

زان روی که دل فراخ پهناست

The heart does not eat sorrow, its food is not sorrow

The heart is a parrot, and how wondrously it seeks sugar

دل غم نخورد غذاش غم نیست

طوطی‌ست دل و عجب شکرخاست

Make your head a foot like a tree

For your path is below and above

مانند درخت سر قدم ساز

زیرا که ره تو زیر و بالاست

Although the branch looks to the root

That the strength of its essence is also from the foot

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