Original Persian Text
دیندار شدم تند و دل ازار شدم
رندی بپسندیدم اذان خوار شدم
درهر روشی قید بلای دکراست
زین قید روشها همه بیزار شدم
Latin-letter reading (made here):
Dîndâr şodem tond u dil-âzâr şodem
Rindî be-pesendîdem ez ân ḫˇâr şodem
Der her reveşî ḳayd-ı belâ-yı diger est
Zîn ḳayd-ı reveşhâ heme bîzâr şodem
In English
1. I became pious, and grew harsh and hurtful to hearts; I took a liking to the rind's way, and for that I was scorned.
2. On every path there is the fetter of another trouble; of the fetters of these paths I have wholly wearied.
Literary and Historical Commentary
The pious ascetic and the rind, the two opposed types of divan poetry, appear in this Persian quatrain as two paths one man tried in turn. The poet first became pious, but grew harsh and hurtful to hearts; then he took a liking to the rind's way, and this time he was scorned. Each path demanded its own price.
From this experience the second couplet draws a general conclusion: every path, every "reveş", has a fetter of trouble of its own. The poet says he has wholly wearied of these fetters. The quatrain gives an interesting hint to those who read side by side the divan's ghazals mocking the ascetic and its poems defending the rind's way: Cûdî sees both as a bond, a fetter, and surrenders wholly to neither. This can also be read as an expression of the state called "tecrîd" in Sufism, stripping oneself of every kind of bond.
Bibliography
- Havva Tok Yıldız, Merzifonlu İbrâhîm Cûdî Dîvânı (İnceleme-Metin-Sözlük) [1b-43a], Master's thesis, Ondokuz Mayıs University, Samsun 2017, p. None (poem no. 112; manuscript fol. ). http://libra.omu.edu.tr/tezler/116853.pdf
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