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دفتر پنجم - بخش ۳۷ - مناجات / Book Five - Section 37 - Supplication

متن و ترجمه / Text and Translation

ای مبدل کرده خاکی را به زرخاک دیگر را بکرده بوالبشر
O You who have transformed dust into gold,
and of another dust made the Father of Mankind!
کار تو تبدیل اعیان و عطاکار من سهوست و نسیان و خطا
Your work is the transformation of essences and giving bounties;
my work is error, forgetfulness, and mistake.
سهو و نسیان را مبدل کن به علممن همه خلمم مرا کن صبر و حلم
Transform my error and forgetfulness into knowledge;
I am entirely anger, make me patience and forbearance.
ای که خاک شوره را تو نان کنیوی که نان مرده را تو جان کنی
O You who turn salty earth into bread,
and You who turn dead bread into life!
ای که جان خیره را رهبر کنیوی که بی ره را تو پیغمبر کنی
O You who guide the bewildered soul,
and You who make a prophet of one who is pathless!
می کنی جزو زمین را آسمانمی فزایی در زمین از اختران
You turn a particle of earth into heaven,
and You increase stars upon the earth.
هر که سازد زین جهان آب حیاتزوترش از دیگران آید ممات
Whoever seeks to make this world the Water of Life,
death comes to him sooner than others.
دیده دل کو به گردون بنگریستدید که اینجا هر دمی میناگریست
Where is the eye of the heart that, looking up to the sky,
saw that here at every moment there is creative transformation?
قلب اعیانست و اکسیری محیطایتلاف خرقه تن بی مخیط
It is the transmutation of essences and an all-encompassing elixir,
the piecing together of the robe of the body without a tailor.
تو از آن روزی که در هست آمدیآتشی یا بادی یا خاکی بدی
Since the day you came into existence,
you were fire or wind or dust.
گر بر آن حالت ترا بودی بقاکی رسیدی مر ترا این ارتقا
If you had remained in that state,
how would this elevation have reached you?
از مبدل هستی اول نماندهستی بهتر به جای آن نشاند
Through the Transformer, your first existence did not remain;
He seated a better existence in its place.
هم چنین تا صد هزاران هستهابعد یکدیگر دوم به ز ابتدا
And so on through a hundred thousand existences,
one after another, the second always better than the first.
از مبدل بین وسایط را بمانکز وسایط دور گردی ز اصل آن
Look to the Transformer and leave the intermediaries,
for by intermediaries you are distanced from the Origin.
واسطه هر جا فزون شد وصل جستواسطه کم ذوق وصل افزونترست
Wherever intermediaries increase, union is sought [with difficulty];
the fewer the intermediaries, the greater the sweetness of union.
از سبب دانی شود کم حیرتتحیرت تو ره دهد در حضرتت
Knowing the cause diminishes your wonder;
but your wonder is what gives you access to the Divine Presence.
این بقاها از فناها یافتیاز فنااش رو چرا برتافتی
You found these endurances through passings away;
why then did you turn your face away from His extinction?
زان فناها چه زیان بودت که تابر بقا چفسیده ای ای نافقا
What harm did you suffer from those passings away,
that you cling so tightly to this earthly survival, O escapist?
چون دوم از اولینت بهترستپس فنا جو و مبدل را پرست
Since your second state is better than your first,
then seek extinction and worship the Transformer.
صد هزاران حشر دیدی ای عنودتاکنون هر لحظه از بدو وجود
You have seen a hundred thousand resurrections, O obstinate one,
at every moment since the beginning of your existence until now:
از جماد بی خبر سوی نماوز نما سوی حیات و ابتلا
From the inanimate without awareness toward growth,
and from growth toward life and trial,
باز سوی عقل و تمییزات خوشباز سوی خارج این پنج و شش
Then again toward intellect and pleasant discernments,
and then again beyond these five and six.
تا لب بحر این نشان پایهاستپس نشان پا درون بحر لاست
These footprints exist only up to the shore of the sea;
then, inside the sea of non-existence, there is no footprint.
زانک منزلهای خشکی ز احتیاطهست دهها و وطنها و رباط
For the stages on land, measured with caution,
consist of villages, homelands, and inns.
باز منزلهای دریا در وقوفوقت موج و حبس بی عرصه و سقوف
But the stages of the sea, during halts,
are times of waves and containment without space or ceiling.
نیست پیدا آن مراحل را سنامنه نشانست آن منازل را نه نام
The peaks of those stages are not visible;
those dwellings have neither sign nor name.
هست صد چندان میان منزلینآن طرف که از نما تا روح عین
Between the two stations on that side,
from growth to the essential spirit, is a hundred times more.
در فناها این بقاها دیده ایبر بقای جسم چون چفسیده ای
You have seen these endurances through passings away;
why have you clung so to the survival of the body?
هین بده ای زاغ این جان باز باشپیش تبدیل خدا جانباز باش
Come, O crow, give up this life and be daring;
be a hazard-player before God's transformation!
تازه می گیر و کهن را می سپارکه هر امسالت فزونست از سه پار
Keep receiving the new and surrender the old,
for each of your 'this year' is better than three of yesteryears.
گر نباشی نخل وار ایثار کنکهنه بر کهنه نه و انبار کن
If you are not like a date-palm [giving fruit], then hoard;
lay old upon old and accumulate.
کهنه و گندیده و پوسیده راتحفه می بر بهر هر نادیده را
Take the old, the rotten, and the decayed
as a gift to those who have not seen the new.
آنک نو دید او خریدار تو نیستصید حقست او گرفتار تو نیست
He who has seen the new is not your customer;
he is the prey of God, not captured by you.
هر کجا باشند جوق مرغ کوربر تو جمع آیند ای سیلاب شور
Wherever there is a flock of blind birds,
they will gather around you, O salty stream!
تا فزاید کوری از شورابهازانک آب شور افزاید عمی
So that their blindness increases from the salty water,
for salty water increases blindness.
اهل دنیا زان سبب اعمی دل اندشارب شورابه آب و گل اند
For that reason, the people of the world are blind of heart;
they are drinkers of the salty water of water and clay.
شور می ده کور می خر در جهانچون نداری آب حیوان در نهان
Give what is salty and buy the blind in the world,
since you do not possess the Water of Life within.
با چنین حالت بقا خواهی و یادهم چو زنگی در سیه رویی تو شاد
With such a condition, you seek survival and remembrance,
happy in your black-facedness like a black slave!
در سیاهی زنگی زان آسوده استکو ز زاد و اصل زنگی بوده است
The black slave is at peace in his blackness
because he was born black by birth and origin.
آنک روزی شاهد و خوش رو بودگر سیه گردد تدارک جو بود
But he who was once beautiful and fair-faced,
if he turns black, he seeks a remedy.
مرغ پرنده چو ماند در زمینباشد اندر غصه و درد و حنین
When a flying bird is trapped on the ground,
it is in sorrow, pain, and longing.
مرغ خانه بر زمین خوش می روددانه چین و شاد و شاطر می دود
The domestic fowl walks happily on the ground,
picking up seeds, running joyful and alert,
زآنک او از اصل بی پرواز بودوآن دگر پرنده و پرواز بود
Because it was flightless from the very origin,
while that other was a flyer and made for flight.

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