امّا | however; amma also signals the beginning of the text proper |
چون | when |
مقوله | topic, issue |
مرد دانا | wise man, knowling man, learned |
تأسف | regret |
باید ... شود | must become ... |
دیده | eye |
دیده و دل | eye(s) and heart |
مبتلا به | suffering, afflicted with |
فرق و حرق | drowning and burning |
حرق | burning |
فرق | difference, division, parting |
دست و پا زدن | to struggle by flailing arms and legs, to flounder |
شنا کردن | to swim |
سوختن | to burn |
غوطه خوردن | to plunge, to dive |
عنا دیدن | to suffer, to struggle |
عنا | suffering, pain |
به خود آید | it comes to him, he realizes |
بیت | couplet, line of poetry |
سراید < سرودن | to sing, compose, write |
رفیقانم = رفیق‌های من | my friends, comrades |
هر یاری | each friend |
یار | friend |
اقصا / اقصاء | remote parts. (al-Masjid al-Aqsa, "the Farthest Mosque," in Jerusalem) |
بگرفته است = گرفته است | is caught, is held |
دامن | skirt, hem, shirt |
مغیلان = خار مغیلان | thorn(s) |
خلافِ = برخلافِ | contrary to, opposed to |
هر یاری به اقصائی | each friend to a distant place |