May the world please our lord. May he live long.
May no accidents befall him.
May God make this proverb come true for him:
If one door is closed, a thousand will open.
The lord of the heavens has built the world like this;
Joyous one moment, grieving the next.
May God turn the evil eye away from your realm.
Rudaki (Abū 'Abd Allāh Ja'far ibn Muḥammad al-Rūdhakī) (858 - 941) Tajikstan
Translated by Sassan Tabatabai
Source: Project Muse from the book Father of Persian Verse Rudaki and his Poetry by Sassan Tabatabai, Published by Leiden University Press, 2010 (This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License.)
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