Your Remembrance Refreshes the Lovers
Jamiجامی
ای به یادت تازه جان عاشقان!
O you whose remembrance refreshes the soul of lovers!
ز آب لطفت تر، زبان عاشقان!
By the water of your grace the tongue of lovers is kept moist!
از تو بر عالم فتاده سایه ای
From you a shadow has fallen upon the world
خوبرویان را شده سرمایه ای
and become the wealth of the beautiful.
عاشقان افتادهٔ آن سایه اند
Lovers are those who have fallen in that shadow;
مانده در سودا از آن سرمایه اند
they are left in longing for that wealth.
تا ز لیلی سر حسنش سر نزد
Until the secret of that beauty showed itself in Layli,
عشق او آتش به مجنون در نزد
love for her set no fire to Majnun.
A note for readers
The opening couplets of Salaman and Absal, a short allegorical masnavi in Jami’s Haft Awrang about a prince and the nurse he loves, read as the soul’s bond with the body. The prologue addresses God as the source of all beauty, whose ‘shadow’ falls on human beloveds such as Layli, the beloved of Majnun.
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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.