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Divan-e Shams · G34 · 8 beyts

غزل شمارهٔ ۳۴

This ghazal is a jubilant announcement that the time of separation is over and the moment of union with the Divine has arrived. It calls all lovers to a celestial feast, banishing grief and fear of death in favor of fiery, divine wine. The poem celebrates this ecstatic state through the imagery of music, cosmic dance, and the intoxicating presence of the Beloved, culminating in a command to find true fulfillment in a state of sacred, hidden silence.

This ghazal unfolds as a public proclamation of mystical union. It begins with a universal call to all lovers, announcing that the time for وصل و لقا (union and encounter) has come, a cry issued from the heavens themselves (beyt 1). This arrival is personified as طرب (joy), which joyfully seizes the poet and his companions (beyt 2), and as an intoxicating شراب آتشین (fiery wine) that banishes sorrow and the fear of death, heralding the eternal Cupbearer (beyt 3). The poem then expands its address to the Beloved, acknowledging the entire cosmos as a mere plaything in the Beloved's hand and the source of all existence (beyt 4). The focus shifts to the sensory experience of this ecstasy, invoking a sweet-voiced musician and the life-giving breeze to stir the soul directly (beyt 5), and celebrating the divine music of the reed flute, which carries the scent of faithfulness (beyt 6). The penultimate couplet urges this beautiful Beloved—the آفتاب خوش‌لقا (sun of beautiful face)—to begin the music anew and display its glorious pride over all other beauties (beyt 7). The ghazal makes a sharp, paradoxical turn in its final line, commanding a move from ecstatic expression to sacred silence (خاموش کن), urging the listener to drink the wine of the silent ones and become a concealer of mysteries, emulating God's own quality of forbearance and concealment (حلم خدا).

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  1. G34:1 ای عاشقان ای عاشقان آمد گه وصل و لقااز آسمان آمد ندا کای ماه‌رویان‌، الصلا O lovers, O lovers, the time for union and encounter has come!A cry came from the sky: “O moon-faced ones, the call is made!”A universal announcement is made to all spiritual seekers: the long-awaited moment of ecstatic meeting with the Divine Beloved is here.
  2. G34:2 ای سرخوشان ای سرخوشان آمد طرب دامن‌کشانبگرفته ما زنجیر او بگرفته او دامان ما O blissful ones, O blissful ones, joy has come, trailing its skirts.We have seized its chain, it has seized our hem.Joy arrives personified as a grand, captivating figure, creating a mutual and inescapable bond between itself and the ecstatic mystics.
  3. G34:3 آمد شراب آتشین ای دیو غم‌، کنجی نشینای جان مرگ‌اندیش رو ای ساقی باقی درآ The fiery wine has come! O demon of grief, sit in a corner!O death-thinking soul, go! O eternal Cupbearer, enter!The arrival of divine, transformative love banishes all sorrow and fear of mortality, making way for the presence of the eternal Beloved.
  4. G34:4 ای هفت گردون مست تو ما مهره‌ای در دست توای هست ما از هست تو در صد هزاران مرحبا O You by whom the seven heavens are drunk, we are a game-piece in Your hand!O You from whose existence our existence comes, in a hundred thousand welcomes!All of creation, including our very being, is dependent upon and joyfully submissive to the power of the Divine Beloved.
  5. G34:5 ای مطرب شیرین‌نفس هر لحظه می‌جنبان جرسای عیش زین نه بر فرس بر جان ما زن ای صبا O sweet-breathed musician, shake the bell each moment!O life, mount this horse not of clay, but strike our very soul, O morning breeze!The poet calls for constant spiritual awakening through music and asks for divine inspiration to bypass the physical body and animate the soul directly.
  6. G34:6 ای بانگ نای خوش‌سمر در بانگ تو طعم شکرآید مرا شام و سحر از بانگ تو بوی وفا O sound of the sweet-discoursing reed, in your sound is the taste of sugar.To me, night and day, comes the scent of faithfulness from your sound.The music of the reed flute, a symbol of the soul separated from its source, is perceived as both sweet and a constant, reassuring proof of the Divine's loyalty.
  7. G34:7 بار دگر آغاز کن آن پرده‌ها را ساز کنبر جمله خوبان ناز کن ای آفتاب خوش‌لقا Begin once more, tune those melodies!Display your pride to all the beauties, O sun of beautiful encounter!The poet urges the Beloved, who outshines all other forms of beauty, to reveal His divine art and splendor once again.
  8. G34:8 خاموش کن پرده مدر سغراق خاموشان بخورستار شو ستار شو خو گیر از حلم خدا Be silent, do not tear the veil! Drink the cup of the silent ones.Become a concealer, become a concealer, take on the nature of God’s forbearance.The ultimate spiritual state is not ecstatic expression but sacred silence; one must protect divine mysteries and emulate God's quality of patiently concealing.

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