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دفتر پنجم - بخش ۲۱ - در بیان آنک لطف حق را همه کس داند و قهر حق را همه کس داند و همه از قهر حق گریزانند و به لطف حق در آویزان اما حق تعالی قهرها را در لطف پنهان کرد و لطفها را در قهر پنهان کرد نعل بازگونه و تلبیس و مکر الله بود تا اهل تمیز و ینظر به نور الله از حالی‌بینان و ظاهربینان جدا شوند کی لِیَبْلُوَکُمْ أَیُّکُمْ أَحْسَنُ عَمَلاً / Book Five - Section 21 - Explaining that everyone knows the grace of God and everyone knows the wrath of God, and everyone runs away from God's wrath and cling

متن و ترجمه / Text and Translation

گفت درویشی به درویشی که توچون بدیدی حضرت حق را بگو
A dervish said to another dervish, 'Tell me, how did you see the Presence of the Truth (God)?'
گفت بی چون دیدم اما بهر قالبازگویم مختصر آن را مثال
He replied, 'I saw Him without description, but for the sake of speech, I will briefly mention an illustration of it.
دیدمش سوی چپ او آذریسوی دست راست جوی کوثری
I saw on His left side a fire, and on His right hand a river of Kauthar (abundance).
سوی چپش بس جهان سوز آتشیسوی دست راستش جوی خوشی
On His left, a world-consuming fire, and on His right, a stream of pure delight.
سوی آن آتش گروهی برده دستبهر آن کوثر گروهی شاد و مست
Toward that fire a group of people had stretched out their hands, and for that Kauthar another group was joyful and intoxicated.
لیک لعب بازگونه بود سختپیش پای هر شقی و نیکبخت
Yet, it was a very reversed game, set before the feet of every wretched and fortunate soul.
هر که در آتش همی رفت و شرراز میان آب بر می کرد سر
Whoever entered the fire and the sparks would rear his head from the midst of the water.
هر که سوی آب می رفت از میاناو در آتش یافت می شد در زمان
And whoever went toward the water from the midst, he would instantly find himself in the fire.
هر که سوی راست شد و آب زلالسر ز آتش بر زد از سوی شمال
Whoever went toward the right and the clear water, reared his head from the fire on the northern side (the left).
وانک شد سوی شمال آتشینسر برون می کرد از سوی یمین
And he who went toward the fiery north, emerged from the right side.
کم کسی بر سر این مضمر زدیلاجرم کم کس در آن آتش شدی
Few people solved this hidden secret; consequently, few entered that fire,
جز کسی که بر سرش اقبال ریختکو رها کرد آب و در آتش گریخت
Except the one upon whose head good fortune (divine grace) was poured, who abandoned the water and fled into the fire.
کرده ذوق نقد را معبود خلقلاجرم زین لعب مغبون بود خلق
People have made immediate pleasure their god; therefore, they are deceived by this game.
جوق جوق و صف صف از حرص و شتابمحترز ز آتش گریزان سوی آب
Group after group and rank after rank, out of greed and haste, cautious of the fire, they fled toward the water.
لاجرم ز آتش برآوردند سراعتبارالاعتبار ای بی خبر
And consequently, they reared their heads from the fire. Take warning, take warning, O heedless one!
بانگ می زد آتش ای گیجان گولمن نیم آتش منم چشمه قبول
The fire was shouting: 'O bewildered fools, I am not fire, I am the fountain of acceptance!'
چشم بندی کرده اند ای بی نظردر من آی و هیچ مگریز از شرر
They have cast a spell on your eyes, O sightless ones! Enter into me and do not flee at all from the sparks!
ای خلیل اینجا شرار و دود نیستجز که سحر و خدعه نمرود نیست
O Abraham (Khalil), here there is no spark or smoke; it is nothing but the magic and deception of Nimrod!
چون خلیل حق اگر فرزانه ایآتش آب تست و تو پروانه ای
If you are wise like Abraham, the Friend of God, the fire is your water, and you are a moth (ready to burn).
جان پروانه همی دارد نداکای دریغا صد هزارم پر بدی
The moth's soul keeps calling out: 'Alas, would that I had a hundred thousand wings,
تا همی سوزید ز آتش بی امانکوری چشم و دل نامحرمان
So that they might keep burning relentlessly in the fire, to blind the eyes and hearts of strangers (non-initiates).'
بر من آرد رحم جاهل از خریمن برو رحم آرم از بینش وری
The ignorant man pities me out of his foolishness, while I pity him out of my clear vision.
خاصه این آتش که جان آبهاستکار پروانه به عکس کار ماست
Especially this fire which is the soul of all waters! The moth's action is the reverse of ours:
او ببیند نور و در ناری روددل ببیند نار و در نوری شود
It sees the light and goes into the fire; the heart sees the fire and enters the light.
این چنین لعب آمد از رب جلیلتا ببینی کیست از آل خلیل
Such a game has come from the Majestic Lord, so that you may see who belongs to the family of Abraham.
آتشی را شکل آبی داده اندواندر آتش چشمه ای بگشاده اند
They have given a fire the form of water, and within the fire they have opened a spring.
ساحری صحن برنجی را به فنصحن پر کرمی کند در انجمن
A magician, through his art, makes a brass platter appear in the assembly as a platter full of worms.
خانه را او پر ز کزدمها نموداز دم سحر و خود آن کزدم نبود
By the breath of his sorcery, he made the house appear full of scorpions, though there were no scorpions there.
چونک جادو می نماید صد چنینچون بود دستان جادوآفرین
Since a magician can show a hundred things like this, how must be the deceptions of the Creator of magic?
لاجرم از سحر یزدان قرن قرناندر افتادند چون زن زیر پهن
Consequently, generation after generation fell before the sorcery of God like a woman beneath a load.
ساحرانشان بنده بودند و غلاماندر افتادند چون صعوه به دام
Even those whose servants and slaves were magicians, fell like small birds into the trap.
هین بخوان قرآن ببین سحر حلالسرنگونی مکرهای کالجبال
Come, read the Qur'an and see the lawful magic: the overturning of plots that could move mountains!
من نیم فرعون کایم سوی نیلسوی آتش می روم من چون خلیل
I am not Pharaoh to go toward the Nile; like Abraham, I go toward the fire.
نیست آتش هست آن ماء معینوآن دگر از مکر آب آتشین
It is not fire, it is flowing water; and that other (the water) is, by deception, a fiery water.
پس نکو گفت آن رسول خوش جوازذره ای عقلت به از صوم و نماز
Therefore, how well said that noble Messenger: 'An atom of your intellect is better than fasting and prayer.'
زانک عقلت جوهرست این دو عرضاین دو در تکمیل آن شد مفترض
Because your intellect is the substance, and these two are accidents; these two are made obligatory for the completion of that.
تا جلا باشد مر آن آیینه راکه صفا آید ز طاعت سینه را
So that there may be a polish for that mirror, for purity comes to the chest from obedience.
لیک گر آیینه از بن فاسدستصیقل او را دیر باز آرد به دست
However, if the mirror is fundamentally corrupt, its polish will not restore it quickly.
وان گزین آیینه که خوش مغرس استاندکی صیقل گری آن را بس است
But that select mirror which is of a good soil, a little polishing is enough for it.'

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