ON LOVE سر آغاز باب سوم در عشق و مستی و شور
On Love (سر آغاز باب سوم در عشق و مستی و شور) is from Chapter II, On Beneficence (در احسان) of Saadi’s Bustan (بوستان, “The Orchard”), written in 1257. The Persian verses are given with a rhymed English translation, couplet by couplet.
Bustan Saadi بوستان سعدی
| Oh blest are the days of those rilled with God’s love! Whether meeting with wounds, or His salve, from above! They are beggars, who all Earthly Royalty shun; Who, hopeful, in beggary patience have won. | خوشا وقت شوریدگان غمش اگر زخم بینند و گر مرهمش گدایانی از پادشاهی نفور به امیدش اندر گدایی صبور |
| Ev’ry moment they swallow the wine-draught of pain ; And although they taste bitterness, do not complain. In the pleasure of wine, as a curse, sickness shows ; The thorn is a guard on the stem of the rose. | دمادم شراب الم در کشند وگر تلخ بینند دم در کشند بلای خمارست در عیش مل سلحدار خارست با شاه گل |
| Not bitter’s the patience with Him for its end ; For the bitter is sweet, from the hand of a friend. They are bearers of censure enamoured of God — The camel excited bears swifter his load. | نه تلخ است صبری که بر یاد اوست که تلخی شکر باشد از دست دوست ملامت کشانند مستان یار سبک تر برد اشتر مست بار |
| His captive desires not from bonds to be loose ; His prey does not seek to escape from His noose. They are kings in retirement; God’s mendicants, crossed ; They are versed in God’s ways and their footsteps are lost. | اسیرش نخواهد رهایی زبند شکارش نجوید خلاص از کمند سلاطین عزلت، گدایان حی منازل شناسان گم کرده پی |
| When will men, to their doings, discover the way, Since, like water of life, in deep darkness they stay ? Like Jerusalem’s temple, interior all light, But outside, the walls are in ruinous plight. | به سر وقتشان خلق کی ره برند که چون آب حیوان به ظلمت درند؟ چو بیت‌المقدس درون پر قباب رها کرده دیوار بیرون خراب |
| Like moths, they deliver themselves up to fire ; They’re not dressed, like the silkworm, in silken attire. With their loves in their bosom, for sweethearts they look ; From thirst, their lips dry by the side of a brook ! | چو پروانه آتش به خود در زنند نه چون کرم پیله به خود برتنند دلارام در بر، دلارام جوی لب از تشنگی خشک، برطرف جوی |
| I don’t say that they cannot some water command ; But, beside the Nile’s bank, like the dropsied,_they stand. | نگویم که بر آب قادر نیند که بر شاطی نیل مستسقیند |
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