بگذارو تا بگریم
Begzaro Ta Begeryam
“Let Me, Let Me Weep”
Lyrics
Lyrics updated · July 2026English Translation
Let me weep like clouds in spring For stones too lament on the day of farewell from companions
Whoever has once tasted the wine of separation Knows how hard it is to cut hope from companions
Tell my state to the camel driver at the stream So he does not bind the camel-litter on the day of rain
They left us with eyes full of longing's water Weeping like sinners' eyes on the day of resurrection
Transliteration
Begzaro ta begeryam choon abro dar baharan Kaz sango nala khezad roze wedah yaran
Har ko sharabe ferqat roze chashida bashad Danad ke sakht bashad qateh omid yaran
Ahwale aab chashmam ba sarban begoyed Ta bar shotor nabandad mahmel ba roze baran
Begzashtand ma ra dar dida aab hasrat Geryan cho dar qeyamat chashme gonahkaran
متن اصلی
بگذار تا بگريم چون ابر در بهاران کز سنگ ناله خيزد روز وداع ياران
هر کو شراب فرقت روزی چشيده باشد داند که سخت باشد قطع امید یاران
احوال آب چشمم با ساربان بگویید تا بر شتر نبندد محمل بروز باران
بگذاشتند ما را در ديده آب حسرت گريان چو در قيامت چشم گناهکاران
Saadi's farewell ghazal — let me weep like spring clouds on the day of parting from companions. One of the classical tradition's most direct treatments of grief as a natural, unstoppable force.
About This Recording
Sa'di of Shiraz (c. 1210–1291) is one of Persian literature's great moralists, best known for the Gulistan and the Bustan. His ghazals, less studied than his prose works, carry the same directness: emotional states described precisely, without ornament for its own sake.
This farewell poem uses spring rain — clouds releasing water without being able to stop — as the natural image for grief that cannot be held back. The argument is that grief on the day of farewell is not weakness but natural law: 'even stones lament on the day of farewell from companions.'
The final image — 'weeping like sinners' eyes on the day of resurrection' — escalates the stakes from seasonal weather to eschatological reckoning. The day of departure from companions becomes, momentarily, the Last Day. Zahir's setting carries this escalation without over-dramatizing it.
Poetic Source & Adaptation
From Sa'di Shirazi's Divan, this ghazal uses the spring rain as the natural counterpart to human grief at parting. 'Whoever has once tasted the wine of separation / Knows how hard it is to cut hope from companions' — Sa'di, who traveled widely and wrote about exile and longing throughout his work, is describing something he had personal knowledge of.
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