Mathnaví
The Blessed Couplets
مثنوى مبارك
Bahá’u’lláh
Persian 4,040 words Best-Known Work Awaiting Translation
Ecstatic poem in rhyming couplets, written during the journey to Istanbul and announcing the Day of God and the divine springtime but warning that it can only be perceived by those possessing a spiritual eye.
walking the spiritual path; spiritual wayfaring; the virtuous lifedivine unity [tawhid] and degrees of unityspiritual transformationlove of Godsymbolismexpressions of grief; lamentation; sadnessdetachment; severance; renunciation; patiencesuffering and imprisonmenttranscendence; unknowability of Godpower and sovereignty of God; omnipotence of God
اى حيات العرش خورشيد وداد که جهانوامکانچه تونورى نزاد گر نبودى خلق محجوب از لقا يک دو حرفى گفتم از سرّ بقا تا که جانها جمله مرهونت شوند تا که دلها جمله مجنونت شوند تا ببينى عالمى مجنون و مست روحها بهر نثار اندر دو دست تا رسد امر تو اى فخر زمان بر فشانند بر قدومت رايگان سربرآر ازکوه جانخورشي