Interpretation-Ghazal-70




(1)

Despite its blister-footedness, the cloud is so generous,
That it passes by scattering pearls.
(The rain drops falling from the cloud are like pearls.)
(Since the clouds come from afar, they can be imagined to have blistered feet.)
(In the effort for kindness, blisters have been worn on cloud's feet, and still it is running from end to end of the whole land, to provide the benefit of kindness.)
(This is how the glory of kindness ought to be.)
(2)
The page of the desert has become burnt to such an extent,
By the effect of the heat of my movement is still left in my footprint.
(When in the fervor of passion and mystical knowledge I showed the contemptibleness of the charms of the world, to this day the effect of it remains in the world.)
(The inflammable sandy desert, when exposed to the human passion, caved in immediately and entirely, and resembled something as frail and destroyed as burnt, as fire stricken paper.)

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