Number 17

RubāʿīIraqi style
English

Number 17

I came into the marketplace of being for your sake, and for your sake I go searching among the signs of all that exists. If you had never shown yourself, had never come into the open, every secret of existence would have stayed pointless and void.
Explanation: The 'marketplace of being' pictures the world as a bustling market one enters at birth. The beloved's manifestation is what gives all creation its meaning.

Original · Persian

شمارهٔ ۱۷

از بهر تو آمدم ببازار وجود وز بهر تو می روم بر آثار وجود
گر زانکه نیامدی به اظهار وجود باطل ماندی جمله اسرار وجود