ارمغانِ حجازحضور رسالت
بپا اے ھم نفس باہم بنالیم
(1)
بپا اے ھم نفس باہم بنالیممن و تو کشتہ شان جمالیمدو حرفی بر مراد دل بگوئیمبپای خواجہ چشمان را بمالیم
ome O! chum for a tie to weep and cry. A victim of ‘Beauty’ are you and I.
Two words I would say in hearts parlance, by ‘Master’s’ feet let eyes go to trance.
Beauty: The Gracious Beauty; the God or Prophet. Parlance: The way of speaking.
(2)
حکیمان را بھا کمتر نہادندبہ نادان جلوہ مستانہ دادندچہ خوش بختی، چہ خرم روزگاریدر سلطان بہ درویشی گشادند
To wise he gave less wealth and affluence, the duffer got lustres of raptures hence.
How lucky they were and lucky that age, when king’s door were open to a saint or page.
(3)
جہان چار سو اندر بر منہوای لامکان اندر سر منچو بگذشتم ازین بام بلندیچو گرد افتاد پرواز از پر من
The world with four sides I have in arm-pit, I have wrapped in this head the heavens’ wit.
Then I had to leave that topmost height, like dust my wing’s lost that higher flight.
(4)
درین وادی زمانی جاودانےزخاکش بے صور روید معانےحکیمان با کلیمان دوش بردوشکہ اینجا کس نگوید لن ترانے
In this valley lies a lasting life new, this dust solves meanings’* with an arcane clue.
The Sages and Moses are side by side, there none would ever look a ‘Can’t see’** slide.
* In Persian ‘Ma’ani’ (or meanings) also mean talents, higher faculties, intrinsic qualities etc. **Can’t see: When God said to Moses, You cannot see me. This dust grows meanings in shapeless form (is the literal version) in that case 1st line’s last word would be ‘norm’.
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