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دفتر پنجم - بخش ۴۸ - تفسیر وَ هُوَ مَعَکُمْ / Book Five - Section 48 - Commentary on 'And He is with you'

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یک سپد پر نان ترا بر فرق سرتو همی خواهی لب نان در به در
You have a basket full of bread upon the crown of your head,
yet you go from door to door begging for a crust of bread.
در سر خود پیچ هل خیره سریرو در دل زن چرا بر هر دری
Turn back into your own head, leave off headstrongness;
go knock at the door of the heart, why are you at every door?
تا بزانویی میان آب جوغافل از خود زین و آن تو آب جو
You are up to your knees in the water of the stream,
yet heedless of yourself, you ask this one and that for water.
پیش آب و پس هم آب با مددچشمها را پیش سد و خلف سد
Water is before you and behind you with auxiliary force,
but there is a barrier before and a barrier behind your eyes.
اسپ زیر ران و فارس اسپ جوچیست این گفت اسپ لیکن اسپ کو
The horse is beneath your thigh, yet you, the rider, seek a horse,
asking 'What is this?' They say 'A horse,' but you say 'But where is the horse?'
هی نه اسپست این به زیر تو پدیدگفت آری لیک خود اسپی که دید
'Look, is this not a horse clearly visible beneath you?'
He said, 'Yes, but who has ever seen a horse?'
مست آب و پیش روی اوست آناندر آب و بی خبر ز آب روان
He is intoxicated with water, and it is right in front of his face,
in the water, yet unaware of the running water.
چون گهر در بحر گوید بحر کووآن خیال چون صدف دیوار او
Like a pearl in the ocean saying, 'Where is the ocean?'
while its shell-like imagination is its wall of obstruction.
گفتن آن کو حجابش می شودابر تاب آفتابش می شود
His asking, 'Where is it?' becomes his veil;
the cloud becomes the block to the sun's brilliance.
بند چشم اوست هم چشم بدشعین رفع سد او گشته سدش
His own evil eye is the blindfold on his eye;
the very thing meant to remove his barrier has become his barrier.
بند گوش او شده هم هوش اوهوش با حق دار ای مدهوش او
His worldly intellect has become the lock on his ear;
keep your consciousness with God, O you who are bewildered by Him!

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