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