Prayer مناجات
ای خدای بی‌نظیر ایثار کن
گوش را چون حلقه دادی زین سخن
O God who art without peer, show favour! Since Thou hast bestowed on (our) ear this discourse as an ear-ring,
گوش ما گیر و بدان مجلس کشان
کز رحیقت می‌خورند آن سرخوشان
Take hold of our ear and draw us along to the assembly where the joyous revellers drink of Thy wine.
چون به ما بویی رسانیدی ازین
سر مبند آن مشک را ای رب دین
Forasmuch as Thou hast caused a waft of its perfume to reach us, do not stopple the head (mouth) of that wine-skin, O Lord of the Judgement!
از تو نوشند ار ذکورند ار اناث
بی‌دریغی در عطا یا مستغاث
Whether they are male or female, they (all Thy creatures) drink from Thee: O Thou whose help is besought, Thou art stintless in giving.
ای دعا ناگفته از تو مستجاب
داده دل را هر دمی صد فتح باب
O Thou by whom the unspoken prayer is answered, who bestowest at every moment a hundred bounties on the heart,
چند حرفی نقش کردی از رقوم
سنگها از عشق آن شد هم‌چو موم
Thou hast limned some letters of writing: rocks have become (soft) as wax for love of them.
نون ابرو صاد چشم و جیم گوش
بر نوشتی فتنه‌ی صد عقل و هوش
Thou hast scribed the nún of the eyebrow, the sád of the eye, and the jím of the ear as a distraction to a hundred minds and understandings.
زان حروفت شد خرد باریک‌ریس
نسخ می‌کن ای ادیب خوش‌نویس
By those letters of Thine the intellect is made to weave subtle coils (of perplexity): write on, O accomplished Calligrapher!
در خور هر فکر بسته بر عدم
دم به دم نقش خیالی خوش رقم
At each moment Thou shapest beauteously pictured forms of phantasy, suitable to every thought, upon (the page of) non-existence.
حرفهای طرفه بر لوح خیال
بر نوشته چشم و عارض خد و خال
On the tablet of phantasy Thou inscribest wondrous letters eye and profile and cheek and mole.
بر عدم باشم نه بر موجود مست
زانک معشوق عدم وافی‌ترست
I am drunken with desire for non-existence, not for the existent, because the Beloved of (the world of) non-existence is more faithful.
عقل را خط خوان آن اشکال کرد
تا دهد تدبیرها را زان نورد
He (God) made the intellect a reader of those figured characters, that thereby He might put an end to its contrivances.
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by: Reza about (category: Masnavi, Persian Poetry)
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