All That Is Outside the World
Sanaiسنایی
بیرون جهان همه درون دل ماست
All that is outside the world is inside our heart;
این هر دو سرا، یگان یگان منزل ماست
both these houses, one after the other, are stations on our road.
زحمت همه در نهاد آب و گل ماست
All the trouble lies in our nature of water and clay;
پیش از دل و گل چه بود آن منزل ماست
what was before heart and clay: that is our dwelling.
A note for readers
One of the many quatrains in Sanai’s Divan. The ‘two houses’ are this world and the next; the poem places both inside the heart and points to a home older than the body made of water and clay.
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with the skull of Kay Kavus set down before it.
A Bird on the Walls of Tus
یکی قطره باران ز ابری چکید
خجل شد چو پهنای دریا بدید
A drop of rain fell from a cloud;
it was ashamed when it saw the breadth of the sea.
A Drop of Rain
ابتدای کار سیمرغ ای عجب
جلوه‌گر بگذشت بر چین نیم‌شب
The beginning of the Simorgh’s story, how wonderful:
in all his splendour he passed over China at midnight.