Untitled - Azam Abidov - poet and translator

lossoms of luck will flourish in your life!..
An apple-tree has been living as its origin since it was created:
it blooms and gives fruit like apples. In short, it is an apple-tree and
agrees for its destiny! Its success is in its patience and therefore it
has many amateurs. Apricot, cherry and others also like this. You
are also like this, my dear friend, you are like a garden - but your
fruits are uncountable and your amateurs are more than your fruits!
SEPARATION LEADING TO INTEGRITY
My unsatisfied wish is that I read Alisher Navoi with dictionary.
I am a helpless woman who stays near the treasure but can not find
a key, I say to myself. When I read the bayts from my daybook,
every time I find great delight, new odor and color not resembling
to previous one. I always wonder as if I see them for the first time.
This is a secretive blooming garden, I say and get pleasure:
Never put my friend the balm to ulcer in the heart again
Let I pass away, forever, let remain in heart her pain,
says the poet. Heart of man in love is broken, his beloved became
unfaithful and she is indifferent or is not aware of his sympathy.
The lover strongly embraces his breast and dislikes to see a doctor
or friends. “Do not touch my wound, - he says, - this ulcer is my
sole remembrance, which regularly reminds me about sweetheart. I
could not be happy with beloved, so, at least do not take away this
injury. May I pass away but I will take these pains to my grave” .
Where there is love, there is no damnation there! There is no
self-interest and desire! I read somewhere: wounded man curses
the shooter all long life, but a man, who fell in love, proceeds to
love his beloved more and more. The reason of this is that love is
a theological boon. To have it in heart is a great reward! Because
a pure light came to your body, you consider the people you fell
in love God’s boon and dearest. This light made you to glance at
yourself and you sigh. How a poor and helpless I am, you said,
- how can I aspire to love. How can I be equal to that beloved
with my condition? You were ashamed of yourself, but it was the
character of people trying to become pure! Being ashamed of one’s
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