Fuzuli

Stop complaining and tell what has befallen you. Make your being a target for the arrow of affliction. Bear all torments with patience, and pray.

Yeter şikâyet edüp şerh-i mâ-cerâ kılgıl
Vücûduñı hedef-i nâvek-i belâ kılgıl
Kamu cefâlara sabr eyleyüp duâ kılgıl

Fuzuli, Dîvân, musaddas, stanza 9 (Fuzûlî Dîvânı: İnceleme-Tenkitli Metin, ed. A. Kılınç, Türkiye Yazma Eserler Kurumu, 2021, pp. 687-690).

Stop complaining, says Fuzuli.
But he does not say be silent.
Tell what has befallen you.

There is a fine difference between the two.
Complaint looks for someone to blame.
Telling says what happened.

Then to make oneself
a target for the arrow of affliction.
To stand without fleeing.

The one who wrote this stanza
commands patience of himself.
Naming his own name.

A person gives the harshest advice
most often
to himself.

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