Interpretation-Ghazal-64




1.
Just as from lying useless and neglected a mirror becomes covered with verdigris,
In the same way scum forms on stagnant water and makes it discolored and dirty.
(In this verse the appearance of verdigris on a mirror has been given as a simile the appearance of scum on water, with the condition of lack of movement as the grounds of similitude.)
(The man who is considered most famous and useful remains most liable to disaster and calamity.)
(The Sufi is obliged to pass through many states and many guises. Amazement too is one of the states. Strive for purity and the manifestation of Divinity, and do not remain in one single state.)
2.

My madness of temperament could not be removed even by equipment of pleasure and pomp,
That even an emerald cup became, in my eyes, a spot of the leopard.
(Luxury cannot become a cure for the heart's madness and restlessness.)
(I consider an emerald cup to be a spot of the leopard, and madness increases.)

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