Number 7

RubāʿīIraqi style
English

Number 7

Your beauty shows itself in everything on view, and your eye is the watcher in every scene. Because of the light of your face and the darkness of your hair, one crowd becomes believers and another stays faithless.
Explanation: The bright face standing for faith and the dark hair for disbelief is a classic Persian trope for how beauty pulls people in opposite directions.

Original · Persian

شمارهٔ ۷

ای حسن تو در کل مظاهر ظاهر وی چشم تو در جمله مناظر ناظر
از نور رخ و ظلمت زلفت دایم قومی همه مومن اند و قومی کافر