The Candles Appear as Seven Men
From Rumi’s Masnavi (مثنوی معنوی), Book 3, section 85 of 185: How those candles appeared to the eye as seven men (نمودن آن شمعها در نظر هفت مرد). Below, each of its 2 couplets is given in Persian, followed by R. A. Nicholson’s English translation.
How those candles appeared to the eye as seven men. نمودن آن شمعها در نظر هفت مرد
هفت شمع اندر نظر شد هفت مرد نورشان میشد به سقف لاژورد
The seven candles appeared to the eye as seven men: their light was mounting to the azure vault.
پیش آن انوار نور روز درد از صلابت نورها را میسترد
Beside those lights the daylight was (murky as) dregs: by their intensity they were obliterating (all other) lights.
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