Love Set a Tumult in Our Nature
Fakhr al-Din Iraqiعراقی
عشق، شوری در نهاد ما نهاد
Love set a tumult in our nature,
جان ما در بوتهٔ سودا نهاد
and laid our soul in the crucible of longing.
گفتگویی در زبان ما فکند
It cast a murmur of talk upon our tongue,
جستجویی در درون ما نهاد
and set a seeking within us.
داستان دلبران آغاز کرد
It began the tale of those who steal hearts,
آرزویی در دل شیدا نهاد
and set a longing in the frenzied heart.
A note for readers
The opening of a ghazal in which Love is the one who acts and the lover only the place where it works. The repeated rhyme word nahad, ‘set’ or ‘laid’, gives the poem its drive. The excerpt gives the first three couplets.
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یک عمر می‌توان سخن از زلف یار گفت
در بند آن مباش که مضمون نمانده است
One could speak for a lifetime of the beloved’s tresses;
do not fret that there are no themes left.
A Lifetime on the Beloved’s Tresses
بلبلی برگ گلی خوش رنگ در منقار داشت
و اندر آن برگ و نوا خوش ناله‌های زار داشت
A nightingale held in its beak a rose petal of lovely colour,
and with that petal and its song it made sweet, piteous laments.
A nightingale held a rose petal
ستاره ای بدرخشید و ماه مجلس شد
دل رمیده ما را رفیق و مونس شد
A star shone out and became the moon of the gathering,
became friend and companion to our startled heart.