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دفتر پنجم - بخش ۲۸ - در بیان قول رسول علیه‌السلام لا رهبانیة فی‌الاسلام / Book Five - Section 28 - Explaining the Saying of the Prophet, Peace Be Upon Him, 'There is no monasticism in Islam'

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برمکن پر را و دل برکن ازوزانک شرط این جهاد آمد عدو
Do not pluck out your feathers, but detach your heart from them,
because the enemy is the condition for this spiritual struggle.
چون عدو نبود جهاد آمد محالشهوتت نبود نباشد امتثال
When there is no enemy, struggle becomes impossible;
if you have no lust, there can be no obedience (to the command to restrain it).
صبر نبود چون نباشد میل توخصم چون نبود چه حاجت حیل تو
There can be no patience when you have no desire;
when there is no adversary, what need is there for your strategies?
هین مکن خود را خصی رهبان مشوزانک عفت هست شهوت را گرو
Beware, do not castrate yourself, do not become a monk,
for chastity is pledged to lust (it depends on lust to exist).
بی هوا نهی از هوا ممکن نبودغازیی بر مردگان نتوان نمود
Without desire, forbidding desire is impossible;
one cannot act as a warrior against the dead.
انفقوا گفته ست پس کسپی بکنزانک نبود خرج بی دخل کهن
He (God) has said 'Spend (in charity),' so earn a livelihood,
because there can be no expenditure without a previous income.
گرچه آورد انفقوا را مطلق اوتو بخوان که اکسبوا ثم انفقوا
Although He declared 'Spend' in absolute terms,
you should read it as: 'Earn, then spend.'
هم چنان چون شاه فرمود اصبروارغبتی باید کزان تابی تو رو
Just as the King commanded 'Be patient,'
there must be a desire from which you turn your face.
پس کلوا از بهر دام شهوتستبعد از آن لاتسرفوا آن عفتست
Therefore, 'Eat' is for the sake of the snare of desire;
afterwards, 'Do not exceed' is chastity.
چونک محمول به نبود لدیهنیست ممکن بود محمول علیه
When that which is carried (the subject) does not exist with him,
that which is carried upon it (the attribute) cannot exist.
چونک رنج صبر نبود مر تراشرط نبود پس فرو ناید جزا
When the pain of patience is not yours,
the condition is not met, so the reward does not descend.
حبذا آن شرط و شادا آن جزاآن جزای دل نواز جان فزا
How beautiful is that condition and how joyous is that reward,
that heart-soothing, soul-exalting reward!

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