Love Does Not Come from Sight Alone
Jamiجامی
نه تنها عشق از دیدار خیزد
Love does not rise from sight alone;
بسا کین دولت از گفتار خیزد
often this fortune rises from words.
درآید جلوه حسن از ره گوش
The splendour of beauty enters by way of the ear
ز جان آرام برباید ز دل هوش
and steals the soul’s peace and the heart’s wits.
ندارد بیش ازین دلاله کاری
A go-between has nothing more to do
که گوید قصه زیبانگاری
than tell the tale of some lovely one:
ز دیدن هیچ اثر نی در میانه
with no trace of seeing in between,
کند عاشق کسان را غایبانه
she makes people lovers from afar.
A note for readers
The opening of the story of Bazegha, a rich and beautiful Egyptian girl of the ancient people of ‘Ad, who falls in love with Yusuf only from hearing of him. Jami tells it as an aside within the main story: when she finally sees Yusuf, she sees in his beauty the beauty of God that it reflects, and passes from earthly love to the love of the divine.
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