Quatrain 10

RubāʿīIraqi style
English

Quatrain 10

A clear head grows drunk on longing for you; how lucky the heart that loses itself to your face. Without you, everything in the realm of existence is nothing; and though there be nothing, since you exist, everything exists.
Explanation: The play in the final couplet turns on 'nothing' and 'everything': the beloved's presence is what gives all things their reality.

Original · Persian

رباعی شمارهٔ ۱۰

هشیار سری بوَد ز سودای تو مست خوش آن که ز روی تو دلش رفت ز دست
بی‌‌تو همه هیچ نیست در ملک وجود ور هیچ نباشد، چو تو هستی، همه هست