Maḥmūd Shabistarī · d. 720/1320 or c. 740/1339–40
The Rose-Garden of Mystery
گلشن راز
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Epilogue
خاتمة
Epilogue
az ān gulshan giriftam shamma-ʾī bāz
nihādam nām-i ū-rā Gulshan-i rāz
[Epilogue.] From that rose-garden I have taken a breath, and named it the Rose-garden of the Secret (Gulshan-i rāz).
dar-ū az rāz-hā gul-hā shikufta-st
ki tā aknūn kasī dīgar na-gufta-st
In it, from secrets, roses have opened such as no one else has told until now.
zabān-i sawsan-i ū jumla gūyā-st
ʿuyūn-i nargis-i ū jumla bīnā-st
The tongues of its lilies are all speaking; the eyes of its narcissi are all seeing.
taʾammul kun ba-chashm-i dil yakāyak
ki tā bar-khīzad az pīsh-i tu īn shakk
Consider them one by one with the eye of the heart, so that this doubt may rise from before you.
bi-bīn manqūl u maʿqūl u ḥaqāyiq
muṣaffā karda dar ʿilm-i daqāʾiq
See what is transmitted and what is reasoned, and the realities, refined in the science of subtle points.
ba-chashm-i munkirī ma-ngar dar-ū khvār
ki gul-hā gardad andar chashm-i tu khār
Do not look upon it with a denier's eye as contemptible, lest the roses become thorns in your eye.
nishān-i nā-shināsī nā-sipāsī-st
shināsāʾī-yi ḥaqq dar ḥaqq shināsī-st
The sign of not knowing is ingratitude; knowing the Real lies in acknowledging His right (ḥaqq-shināsī).
gharaḍ z-īn jumla ān tā-gar kunad yād
ʿazīzī gūyad-am raḥmat bar-ū bād
My aim in all this is that some dear one, should he remember, may say of me: mercy be upon him!
Whinfield's margin. Other manuscripts reads تاکزما for تاگر.
ba-nām-i khvīsh kardam khatm u pāyān
ilāhī ʿāqibat maḥmūd gardān
With my own name I have made the seal and the end: O God, make the outcome praiseworthy (maḥmūd, also the poet's own name).
Persian: Whinfield's edition (London 1880), public domain, transcribed from the archive.org page images. Whinfield's English: 1880, public domain. Transliteration, English and glosses: AI (Claude), marked; † marks a hemistich whose reading does not scan. How this text was established.