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Ghazal · 11th–12th centuryDraft

O King, I Speak Your Praise

Sanaiسنایی

ملکا ذکر تو گویم که تو پاکی و خدایی

O King, I speak your remembrance, for you are pure, and you are God;

نروم جز به همان ره که توام راه نمایی

I go by no road but the one you show me.

همه درگاه تو جویم همه از فضل تو پویم

Your court alone I seek; by your grace alone I move;

همه توحید تو گویم که به توحید سزایی

your Oneness alone I proclaim, for Oneness is your due.

تو زن و جفت نداری تو خور و خفت نداری

You have no wife or partner; you neither eat nor sleep;

احد بی زن و جفتی ملک کامروایی

you are One, without wife or partner, a King whose will is done.

نه نیازت به ولادت نه به فرزندت حاجت

You have no need of being born, no need of a son;

تو جلیل الجبروتی تو نصیر الامرایی

you are the Lord of majesty, the helper of princes.

تو حکیمی تو عظیمی تو کریمی تو رحیمی

You are wise, you are mighty, you are generous, you are merciful;

تو نمایندهٔ فضلی تو سزاوار ثنایی

you are the one who shows grace, you are worthy of praise.

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A note for readers

A hymn to God that piles up the divine attributes in short, rhythmic phrases. Several lines echo the Quran’s Sura of Sincerity (112), which says that God neither begets nor is begotten. The excerpt gives the first five of its thirteen couplets; in the last, the poet names himself.

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