Quatrain 12

RubāʿīIraqi style
English

Quatrain 12

Yes, paradise has a hundred blessings: roast fowl, wine, and slender, lovely maidens. But cupbearer, pour me this rose colored wine now, in hand, for its heavenly version is a promise that only pays out on Judgment Day.
Explanation: The contrast is between cash ('naqd', payment now) and credit ('nasiyeh', a deferred promise): the poet prefers present pleasures to rewards postponed until the afterlife.

Original · Persian

رباعی شمارهٔ ۱۲

هر چند بهشت صد کرامت دارد مرغ و می و حور سرو قامت دارد
ساقی بده این بادهٔ گلرنگ به نقد کان نسیهٔ او سر به قیامت دارد