Ghazal No. 55: Your body is the night of power, from which fortunes are found
غزل شماره ۵۵: شب قدر است جسم تو کز او یابند دولتها
Your body is the 'Night of Power' from which fortunes are found
Your soul is the full moon from which darknesses are split apart
شب قدر است جسم تو کز او یابند دولتها
مه بدرست روح تو کز او بشکافت ظلمتها
Perhaps (you are) the divine calendar in which horoscopes are (found)
Perhaps (you are) the sea of forgiveness from which sins are washed away
مگر تقویم یزدانی که طالعها در او باشد
مگر دریای غفرانی کز او شویند زلتها
Perhaps you are the Preserved Tablet from which lessons of the unseen are taken
Or a treasure of mercy from which robes of honor are put on
مگر تو لوح محفوظی که درس غیب از او گیرند
و یا گنجینه رحمت کز او پوشند خلعتها
How wondrous you are, the 'Populated House' whose circumambulators dictate (its virtues)
How wondrous you are, a prism from which syrups are drunk
عجب تو بیت معموری که طوافانش املاکنند
عجب تو رق منشوری کز او نوشند شربتها
Or that 'howless' soul that is beyond all these
In which contemplations and thoughts have come upside down
و یا آن روح بیچونی کز اینها جمله بیرونی
که در وی سرنگون آمد تأملها و فکرتها
But the 'howless' easts have shone upon the 'hows'
Affection has gone astray on the subtle traces of you
ولی برتافت بر چونها مشارقهای بیچونی
بر آثار لطیف تو غلط گشتند الفتها
(You are) a wondrous Joseph, like the moon whose reflection is in a hundred wells
From him, the Jacobs have fallen into the trap and the glory of nations
عجایب یوسفی چون مه که عکس اوست در صد چه
از او افتاده یعقوبان به دام و جاه ملتها
When he makes his locks a rope, he will cast them down from (many) things
He will draw them into the embrace of mercy, (and) deliver them from bewilderment
چو زلف خود رسن سازد ز چههاشان براندازد
کشدشان در بر رحمت رهاندشان ز حیرتها
When (one) passes beyond bewilderment, (and) comprehends the attributes of that (one)
Be silent, for expressions and lessons have been much broken
چو از حیرت گذر یابد صفات آن را که دریابد
خمش که بس شکسته شد عبارتها و عبرتها
Ghazal No. 55: Your body is the night of power, from which fortunes are found
Book: Divan e Shams
Author: Jalāl al-Dīn Muḥammad Rūmī