Ghazal No. 52: Since all the love is your face, all our soul's contentment is ours
غزل شماره ۵۲: چون همه عشق روی تست جمله رضای نفس ما
Since all (our) desire is the love of your face, (then)
It is inevitably infidelity to abandon the desire of our (lower) self
چون همه عشق روی تست جمله رضای نفس ما
کفر شدست لاجرم ترک هوای نفس ما
Since (the soul) is alive by love, how can I intend to fight against it?
Your blood-shedding glance has become the pilgrimage and holy war of our (lower) self
چونک به عشق زنده شد قصد غزاش چون کنم
غمزه خونی تو شد حج و غزای نفس ما
There is nothing of our (lower) self except the image and trace of a shadow
Since the curve of your two locks is the dwelling and place of our (lower) self
نیست ز نفس ما مگر نقش و نشان سایهای
چون به خم دو زلف تست مسکن و جای نفس ما
Love kindled a fire from which the water of life is ashamed
Ask for whose sake (it is), (it is) for the sake of our (lower) self
عشق فروخت آتشی کآب حیات از او خجل
پرس که از برای که آن ز برای نفس ما
Eighteen thousand worlds of pleasure and desire were presented
Except for your beauty, there was no stirring and inclination of our (lower) self
هژده هزار عالم عیش و مراد عرضه شد
جز به جمال تو نبود جوشش و رای نفس ما
Hell is the place of infidels, paradise is the place of believers
Love is for lovers, annihilation is the fitting reward of our (lower) self
دوزخ جای کافران جنت جای مؤمنان
عشق برای عاشقان محو سزای نفس ما
The essence of truth is fidelity, the secret is the summary of contentment
The master, the soul of Shams al-Din, was the purity of our (lower) self
اصل حقیقت وفا سر خلاصه رضا
خواجه روح شمس دین بود صفای نفس ما
In place of the ambergris of the soul, in the body (are) a thousand stones
From Tabriz, the dust (is) the kohl of the light of our (lower) self
در عوض عبیر جان در بدن هزار سنگ
از تبریز خاک را کحل ضیای نفس ما
Ghazal No. 52: Since all the love is your face, all our soul's contentment is ours
Book: Divan e Shams
Author: Jalāl al-Dīn Muḥammad Rūmī