Muntakhab al-tawarikh 341.3

341.3

“Thou art neither my friend nor a stranger, and I know not What name is given to such intercourse as this.”
“My heart is restless within my body which has been slain by love; I know not what more it expects from my beloved; It describes as ‘proving’ the cruelty which it suffers from thee, And by this artifice persuades itself to patience for awhile.”
“My life is about to leave me and I am well pleased with this, for my heart Has now some hope of a remedy for its many years of pain.”
“In thy absence I do not die, lest thy heart should say, ‘This weakling who has not experienced my cruelty could not endure my absence for a day or two.’”
“Although she came to ask how I fared I died, In jealous wonder as to who it was from whom she asked the way to my house.”
“I die and have pity for those who live, for thou Art accustomed to committing such cruelty as thou hast done unto me.”
Some people read rashk (‘jealousy’) for rahm (‘pity’) in this last couplet. The distinction between the two is for such as have a nice discrimination in the matter of words.
“If anybody has brought about a meeting between my love and me Her anger with me has certainly made him ashamed of what he has done for me. The good news of a meeting with her, which the stranger in ridicule gave me, Has made me, in my simplicity, expectant of its fulfilment.”