Number 12

RubāʿīIndian/Isfahani style
English

Number 12

Your pain is the price I pay for chasing comfort; loving you atones for all my pious failings. Your hair, the very summit of every confusion, measures out the longing of all the lost and troubled.
Explanation: The beloved's tangled hair is a classic Persian image for the soul's bewilderment; 'me'raj' (ascension) is used to mean the peak of disorder.

Original · Persian

شمارهٔ ۱۲

درد تو تلافی تن آسانی‌هاست عشق تو کفارة مسلمانی‌هاست
اندازة همّت پریشانان است زلف تو که معراج پریشانی‌هاست