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Слушать(AI)Quatrain 1693 Farsi with English Translation
ay sâqî, az-ân bâda ke awwal dâd-î
Tlê dô dar andâz-o be-y-afzâ shâdî yâ châshniyê az-ân na-bâyast namûd yâ mast-o kharâb kon, chô sar be-g'shâd-î English TranslationO cupbearer, from that wine which you first gave,
Toss in two [more] cups worth and increase (my) happiness.
Either a taste of it must not be made known,
Or, if you have opened the [jug's] top, you must make (me) drunk and ruined.
From "The Rubâ`iyât" of Jalâluddîn Rûmî (in the Dîwân-é Kabîr, also known as "Kulliyat-é Shams" and "Dîwân-é Shams-é Tabrîz") Adapted from "The Quatrains of Rumi," by Ibrahim Gamard and Ravan Farhadi, an unpublished manuscript of over 800 pages.
Mewlana Jalaluddin Rumi
Mewlana Jalaluddin Rumi (30 September 1207 – 17 December 1273), was a 13th-century Persian poet, faqih, Islamic scholar, theologian, and Sufi my
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