Shahriar’s Poem to Einstein
Einstein — a greeting from a stranger, if you permit.
Running through the half-light of a milky moon,
The eastern breeze is coming,
Scattering the curls of the night’s hair.
Under its arm it carries branches of narcissus and jasmine,
Those that grow in Shiraz’s Sa‘di garden,
From the folds of seas and waves,
From the twists of forests and jungles.
It runs at dawn,
To knock upon the door of the palace of mathematics,
In the solitude of the sultan of thought,
Inside the castle of independence,
Above the throne of contemplation.
Lift your head from the knee of deep inquiry;
Open your door to this guest, untimely and uninvited.
Let it, with its delicate hand, gently smooth
The furrows of your lofty thoughts,
And comb the silk of your ideas.
The genius of the East, too, in the manner of a dervish,
With a cup of wine from the taverns of Hafez and Khayyam in hand,
Kneels at your door with the breeze,
To kiss the hand of the old sage of the West.
Einstein — bravo to you!
You saw the void illuminated by the speed of light;
Time flowed into eternity, and crossed beyond place;
Eternal life, once beyond understanding, became visible;
The heavenly paradise of the spirit, of which religion spoke,
You reconciled with science —
You brought religion and knowledge into peace.
Einstein — I salute you.
You showed that mass and matter are nothing but energy.
When the atom splits, the sum of the universe rises.
Even to the razor-sight of mystics and the people of insight,
Our world appears as a bubble on the wrinkled surface of water.
I, the uninvited student, a child of the school of love,
See the world of bodies as a wave from the world of spirit.
Matter has no true originality.
Einstein — a hundred thousand praises, yet a hundred thousand regrets:
From your discovery and inspiration,
The rival is building bombs.
Einstein — the dragon of war
Will open the dreadful jaws of hell.
What do they say?
Will love and loyalty truly be condemned to decay?
Will the sighs of the dawn-awakened never reach the heavens?
Will a mother no longer cry from her heart,
“Oh my child”?
Einstein — I am choking with grief, clinging to your robe.
Turn your genius toward healing the wounds of humankind.
Bring these hard-hearted cowards back to the path.
Unite race, faith, and nation, O great master.
Make the earth the capital of an empire of conscience.
Recognize no superiority in the world except knowledge and piety.
Einstein — have you heard the name of ruined Iran?
Remind this savage civilization of our dignity.
O wise one, honor the cradle of Avicenna.
Einstein — go further still, cross even the realm of reason.
See Moses, Jesus, and Muhammad side by side.
Take up the key of love and solve this mystery;
If possible, open this ancient lock through the language of science.
Einstein — rise higher still:
Find God as well.
Einstein — a greeting from a stranger, if you permit.
Running through the half-light of a milky moon,
The eastern breeze is coming,
Scattering the curls of the night’s hair.
Under its arm it carries branches of narcissus and jasmine,
Those that grow in Shiraz’s Sa‘di garden,
From the folds of seas and waves,
From the twists of forests and jungles.
It runs at dawn,
To knock upon the door of the palace of mathematics,
In the solitude of the sultan of thought,
Inside the castle of independence,
Above the throne of contemplation.
Lift your head from the knee of deep inquiry;
Open your door to this guest, untimely and uninvited.
Let it, with its delicate hand, gently smooth
The furrows of your lofty thoughts,
And comb the silk of your ideas.
The genius of the East, too, in the manner of a dervish,
With a cup of wine from the taverns of Hafez and Khayyam in hand,
Kneels at your door with the breeze,
To kiss the hand of the old sage of the West.
Einstein — bravo to you!
You saw the void illuminated by the speed of light;
Time flowed into eternity, and crossed beyond place;
Eternal life, once beyond understanding, became visible;
The heavenly paradise of the spirit, of which religion spoke,
You reconciled with science —
You brought religion and knowledge into peace.
Einstein — I salute you.
You showed that mass and matter are nothing but energy.
When the atom splits, the sum of the universe rises.
Even to the razor-sight of mystics and the people of insight,
Our world appears as a bubble on the wrinkled surface of water.
I, the uninvited student, a child of the school of love,
See the world of bodies as a wave from the world of spirit.
Matter has no true originality.
Einstein — a hundred thousand praises, yet a hundred thousand regrets:
From your discovery and inspiration,
The rival is building bombs.
Einstein — the dragon of war
Will open the dreadful jaws of hell.
What do they say?
Will love and loyalty truly be condemned to decay?
Will the sighs of the dawn-awakened never reach the heavens?
Will a mother no longer cry from her heart,
“Oh my child”?
Einstein — I am choking with grief, clinging to your robe.
Turn your genius toward healing the wounds of humankind.
Bring these hard-hearted cowards back to the path.
Unite race, faith, and nation, O great master.
Make the earth the capital of an empire of conscience.
Recognize no superiority in the world except knowledge and piety.
Einstein — have you heard the name of ruined Iran?
Remind this savage civilization of our dignity.
O wise one, honor the cradle of Avicenna.
Einstein — go further still, cross even the realm of reason.
See Moses, Jesus, and Muhammad side by side.
Take up the key of love and solve this mystery;
If possible, open this ancient lock through the language of science.
Einstein — rise higher still:
Find God as well.
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Then ChatGPT, teamed up with Google AlphaFold, helped analyze the dog’s DNA, pinpoint the problematic proteins, and figure out which drugs had the best shot at working.
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