
Persian Ghazal 37 — Ez-fitne-i çeşm-i to ḥaẕer mī-koned āfet
Münîrî's Persian ghazal with Arabic rhymes: calamity shuns the eye's mischief, a rival who reads the Kashshaf lacks refinement, and the lover travels like Gabriel.

Münîrî's Persian ghazal with Arabic rhymes: calamity shuns the eye's mischief, a rival who reads the Kashshaf lacks refinement, and the lover travels like Gabriel.

Münîrî's Persian ghazal treating love as a science: the disputant is ignorant, the beloved's street becomes the Kaaba, and the lover's sigh lights the gathering.

Münîrî's Persian ghazal on the refrain "-yı tost": the face is the dawn, the hair the night, the preacher's hell a spark of separation, the lover her nightingale.

Münîrî's Persian ghazal on the refrain "est": the ruby lip is sweeter than life, the tulip loses the ring game with ash in its mouth, and the breast smokes like a censer.

Münîrî's Persian ghazal found only in the Vienna manuscript: a lip that revives like the Messiah, salt on the wound, and the poet's view that every art needs learning.

Münîrî's Persian ghazal on the refrain "keşīd": the refrain takes a new sense in each couplet, the down writes on the heart's tablet, and grief's army lays waste the heart.

Münîrî's Persian response to Hâfız: the reed flute laments with the lover recalling last night, Farhad's suffering is invoked, and love's captive is freed of both worlds.

Münîrî's Persian ghazal on the rose and the nightingale: a pun on gül-zār and gül zār, the thorn that wins the rose, and the rose's gold as blood money for the nightingale.

Münîrî's Persian ghazal on the refrain "āyed": the beloved as a nimble horseman, the cup in rose season, words to the ascetic, and the poet praising his own pearl-like verse.

Münîrî's Persian ghazal on the refrain "sefīd" (white): white and black change places in each couplet, black fortune awaits dawn, and the weeping eye sees again.

Münîrî's Persian ghazal on the refrain "keşīd": the sun takes its heat from the beloved, veils its face for shame, and trembles like Münîr's heart in separation's fever.

Münîrî's Persian ghazal on the refrain "şod": bloody tears turn to ruby, the lover is a bubble on the flood of tears, and a mote of the beloved's road becomes a sun.

Münîrî's Persian ghazal on the refrain "şod": a pun on gül-āb and gül āb, the rose melting with envy, the quick-answering eye and pupils ruined on grief's road.

Münîrî's Persian ghazal on the refrain "pīçed": curling hair, the heart clutching a rope, the tongue-tied lover, the beloved turning away and the rival writhing like a snake.

Münîrî's Persian response to Hâfız: asked for the alms-tax of her lip, the beloved says "lâ" and it becomes "belâ", while the lover's sigh fans the fire within.

Münîrî's Persian ghazal on the refrain "-i çend", found only in the Vatican manuscript: a stature bent like the harp, the reed flute as companion and dust borne by the breeze.

Münîrî's Persian ghazal on the refrain "mī-pervered": pain is nurtured in the soul, Joseph in the well, musk in the gazelle, wine in the jar and a pearl in the sea of tears.

Münîrî's Persian ghazal on the refrain "şod": the heart is a half-slaughtered bird, tears flow like beggars asking alms, and only the beloved remains on the heart's tablet.

Münîrî's Persian ghazal without refrain: the grain of the mole scatters life's harvest, the dice of two worlds must be thrown, and peace lies beyond multiplicity in union.

Münîrî's Persian response to Hâfız: the curl of the tresses is every heart's home, death holds no fear when the killer has Jesus' breath, and a face lights the gathering.

Münîrî's Persian ghazal on the feast: almonds and halva go to the Sufi, wine to the libertine, a doorkeeper's kick is sweeter, and a crescent brow is the feast's tughra.

Münîrî's second Persian feast ghazal: the beloved's quarter becomes the Kaaba, the soul is sacrificed in pre-eternity to the feast of union, and the cup goes round again.

Münîrî's Persian ghazal on the refrain "keşed": who draws his being into nonexistence reaches permanence, and pure wine is drunk in the gathering of nonexistence.

Münîrî's Persian ghazal on "ne-bāşed": a heart that knows no love has lost its way, the open eye sees beauty in every mote, and paradise without the beloved consoles fools.

Münîrî's Persian ghazal on "ne-şod": one who never dwelt in the tavern knows not its secret, an unruined heart cannot hold the treasure, and the moth never leaves the flame.

Münîrî's Persian ghazal on "sūzed": a rose cheek burns the rose and tulip, beside the dry the wet burns too, and the fire of love sets even the lancet in the vein alight.

Münîrî's eleven-couplet Persian response to Hâfız opens with news of union, passes from the rose season to autumn and closes with a prayer praising Sultan Bayezid's face.

Münîrî's Persian response to Hâfız: tears flow as they did before, the beloved's image rules the land of the heart, and not even death changes the lover's sorrow.

Münîrî's Persian ghazal on "şeved": every mote of one who turns to dust on the beloved's path becomes a sun, and beside the ruby lip Khidr's water is a mirage.

Münîrî's Persian ghazal on "gīred": a Turk of an eye lies in ambush, Khitai and China slip into the play of brow and arrow, and a lip sets Solomon's seal beneath its stone.

Münîrî's Persian ghazal without refrain: beauty seen in pre-eternity becomes the litany "Yâ Vedûd", a glance steals the heart with a toy, and love is older than time.

Münîrî's Persian ghazal on "bāşed": distraught hearts find their place in dishevelled tresses, love's pain has no cure, and Judgement Day is the very night of parting.

Münîrî's Persian ghazal on "şod": tears become a flood seeking the cypress, the gazelle eye's leanest prey is a roaring lion, and the heart leads the circle of madmen.

Münîrî's Persian ghazal without refrain: the lover asks the sword for sherbet, his sigh is the smoke of love's fire, grief's harp scratches the soul and he dies at the feast.

Münîrî's Persian ghazal on "resed": the beloved's arrow wound is sweeter than his salve, the dust of his road is collyrium, and his ruby lip pays the blood money.

Münîrî's Persian ghazal on "buved": one strand of the tresses becomes a lasso for the soul, the cypress borrows its worth from the beloved, and the heart burns like rue seed.
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