You Who Nourish What Is Within
Sanaiسنایی
ای درون پرور برون آرای
O you who nourish what is within and adorn what is without,
وی خردبخش بی خرد بخشای
who give wisdom, and forgive those without wisdom;
خالق و رازق زمین و زمان
Creator and Provider of earth and time,
حافظ و ناصر مکین و مکان
Keeper and Helper of every place and all who dwell in it;
همه از صنع تو مکان و مکین
from your making come every place and all who dwell there;
همه در امر تو زمان و زمین
under your command are time and earth.
آتش و آب و باد و خاک سکون
Fire and water, wind and the still earth,
همه در امر قدرتت بی چون
all are under the command of your power, beyond all asking how.
A note for readers
The opening couplets of the Hadiqat al-Haqiqa (The Walled Garden of Truth), Sanai’s long didactic poem, usually regarded as the first great Sufi masnavi in Persian. Like most long Persian poems it begins in praise of God. Rumi quotes Sanai often in his own Masnavi.
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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.