Book I Verses 16 to 35

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The author and the poet of the stories and poems in Persian: Jalāl ad-Dīn Muhammad Balkhī
Translator: Reynold Alleyne Nicholson
The commentary of some parts of the poems in Persian is taken from the scholars of Persian literature:
Badiozzaman Forouzanfar and Karim Zamani
Translator of commentaries: Zeynab Serahati
Narrator and Producer: Zeynab Serahati
Music by: Omid Nemati
The first poem of Masnavi: is called Neynameh (It means the complaint or moan of reed-flute)
The first part of Neynameh, Neynameh 2: (Verses 16 to 35)

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16- If our days are gone, let them go! It’s no matter. Remain my beloved, for none is holy as you are!
17- The lovers are like fish and love is like water, whoever is not a fish becomes sated with water; for only a fish can live in water and water is its lifeblood. In the same way, love also is the lifeblood for lovers, whoever is without daily bread finds the day long.
18- An immature one cannot understand a mature one because his status cannot be described and understood by words. None that is raw understands the state of the ripe: therefore, my words must be brief. Farewell!
19- O son, burst your chains and be free! How long will you be a bondsman to silver and gold?
20- If you pour the sea into a pitcher, how much will it hold? That’s definitely the amount of one day's store.
21- The pitcher, the eye of the covetous, never becomes full: the oyster-shell is not filled with pearls until it is contented.
22- He whose garment of arrogance is torn by a (mighty) love is purged of covetousness.
23- Hail, O Love that brings us good gains—you are the physician of our ills,
24- The remedy of our pride and vainglory, our Plato and our Galen!
25- Love changes morals and behavior. Even when a coward falls in love, he is willing to do anything for his love. For his beloved he is even ready to put himself at risk. Through Love the earthly body soared to the skies: the mountain began to dance and became nimble.
26- Love inspired Mount Sinai, O lover, (so that) Sinai (was made) drunken and Moses fell in a swoon.
27- Were I joined to the lip of one in accord with me, I too, like the reed-flute, would tell all that may be told;
28- (But) whoever is parted from one who speaks his language becomes dumb, though he has a hundred songs.
29- When the rose is gone and the garden faded, you will hear no more the nightingale's story.
30- The Beloved is all and the lover (but) a veil; the Beloved is living and the lover a dead thing.
31- When Love has no care for him, he is left as a bird without wings. Alas for him then!
32- How should I have consciousness before or behind when the light of my Beloved is not before me and behind?
33- If love is manifested in a person, its effect is also marked on his actions and situation. So, we can say that love is like a mirror which shows the state of things in itself as the state of the lover is shown in the mirror of love. Love wills that this Word should be shown forth: if the mirror does not reflect, how is that?
34- Do you know why the mirror (of your soul) reflects nothing? Because the rust is not cleared from its face.
35- O my friends, hearken to this tale: in truth it is the very marrow of our inward state.

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