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