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Khayyam · Quatrains

Recited by احسان اسماعیلیListen on Ganjoor
Shown in the Persian original — a verified English translation of this poem is not available yet.

چون عهده نمی‌شود کسی فردا را

حالی خوش دار این دلِ پر سودا را

مِی نوش به ماهتاب ای ماه که ماه

بسیار بتابد و نیابد ما را

What this poem says

The poet urges us to live in the moment and take pleasure in beauty as it comes. He notes that no one can foresee the future, so it is better to treasure our happy moments while we have them. He also calls for drinking wine beneath the moonlight, in the hope that we might truly perceive beauty — though time may not allow us to enjoy it.

A prose synopsis, not a translation of the verse. Translated from Ganjoor’s machine-generated Persian summary.

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