In the grand design of creation, the Sovereign Lord of Justice crafted the Moon to serve as a luminous beacon against the dark mantle of night. Thus begins its perpetual thirty-day journey across the vault of heaven: emerging first as a delicate, yellow crescent—slender as the stooped back of a heart-sick lover—it briefly brushes the horizon before fading from sight. Night by night, its visage expands, bestowing ever greater radiance upon the earth until, at the turn of two weeks, it attains absolute, radiant fullness. Yet, fulfilling its eternal decree, it then enters its cycle of waning, growing diminished with each passing night as it draws closer to the shining Sun. Such is the fixed order bestowed by the Creator, an unyielding ordinance destined to endure for all eternity.
#1
چراغ اَست مَر تیره شَب را بَسیچ
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به بَد تا تَوانی تو هَرگز مَپیچ
“A lamp is prepared to illuminate the dark night; turn never toward evil so long as you might.”
#2
چو سی روز گردش بپیمایَدا
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شَوَد تیره گیتی بِدو روشَنا
“When it completes thirty days of its celestial round, the dark world is illuminated by its light profound.”
#3
پَدید آید آنگاه باریک و زَرد
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چو پُشتِ کسی کو غَمِ عشق خْوَرد
“At first it appears slender and yellow to the view, like the stooped back of a lover whom grief holds true.”
#4
چو بیننده دیدارش اَز دور دید
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هَم اَندَر زَمان او شَوَد ناپَدید
“No sooner does the beholder glimpse its form from afar, than it vanishes instantly beneath the sky's bar.”
#5
دِگَر شَب نمایش کُنَد بیش‌تَر
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تو را روشَنایی دَهَد بیش‌تَر
“On the following night, it reveals a greater share, bestowing more radiance through the nighttime air.”
#6
به دو هَفته گَردَد تَمام و دُرُست
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بِدان باز گَردَد که بود از نُخُست
“In two weeks' time it reaches perfection and fullness whole, then turns back toward the state where it began its role.”
#7
بُوَد هَر شَبانگاه باریک‌تَر
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به خورشیدِ تابَنده نَزدیک‌تَر
“Each night thereafter it grows more slender and faint, drawing ever closer to the glowing Sun's constraint.”
#8
بِدینسان نَهادَش خداوندِ داد
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بُوَد تا بُوَد هَم بِدین یِک نَهاد
“In this wise did the Lord of Justice ordain its state; so shall it remain unchanged by eternal fate.”