Number 21

RubāʿīIraqi style
English

Number 21

The sun of your face shows itself in every atom of both worlds; your essence, by its quality, defines the being of both worlds. Your beauty has given existence to nothingness itself; from negation you brought forth the very proof of both worlds.
Explanation: Both worlds (dow kown) refers to this world and the hereafter. The poem praises the divine as the source that turns nothingness into existence.

Original · Persian

شمارهٔ ۲۱

ای مهر رخت مظهر ذرّات دو کون ذاتت به صفت معین ذات دو کون
وی داده به نیستی جمالت هستی ای کرده ز نفی عین اثبات دو کون