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دفتر پنجم - بخش ۲۲ - تفاوت عقول در اصل فطرت خلاف معتزله کی ایشان گویند در اصل عقول جزوی برابرند این افزونی و تفاوت از تعلم است و ریاضت و تجربه / Book Five - Section 22 - The difference of intellects in original nature, contrary to the Mu'tazilites who say that in origin, particular intellects are equal, and that this increase and difference comes from learning, discipline, and experience

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این تفاوت عقلها را نیک داندر مراتب از زمین تا آسمان
Know well this difference of intellects,
In their stations from the earth to the sky.
هست عقلی هم چو قرص آفتابهست عقلی کمتر از زهره و شهاب
There is an intellect like the disk of the sun,
There is an intellect lesser than Venus and a meteor.
هست عقلی چون چراغی سرخوشیهست عقلی چون ستاره آتشی
There is an intellect like a cheerful lamp,
There is an intellect like a fiery star.
زانک ابر از پیش آن چون وا جهدنور یزدان بین خردها بر دهد
Since when the cloud departs from before it,
It sees the light of God, which yields intellects.
عقل جزوی عقل را بدنام کردکام دنیا مرد را بی کام کرد
The particular intellect has brought a bad name to the Intellect,
The pleasure of the world has made man without true pleasure.
آن ز صیدی حسن صیادی بدیدوین ز صیادی غم صیدی کشید
That one saw the beauty of hunting from being hunted,
And this one suffered the grief of being hunted from hunting.
آن ز خدمت ناز مخدومی بیافتوآن ز مخدومی ز راه عز بتافت
That one obtained the luxury of a master from service,
And this one turned away from the path of honor due to mastery.
آن ز فرعونی اسیر آب شدوز اسیری سبط صد سهراب شد
That one became captive of the water due to Pharaoh-like arrogance,
And from captivity, the Israelite became a hundred Sohrabs.
لعب معکوسست و فرزین بند سختحیله کم کن کار اقبالست و بخت
The play is reversed and the queen-lock is tight,
Reduce your tricks, for this is the work of fortune and luck.
بر خیال و حیله کم تن تار راکه غنی ره کم دهد مکار را
Spin less of a web upon imagination and trickery,
For the Rich (God) rarely gives way to the plotter.
مکر کن در راه نیکو خدمتیتا نبوت یابی اندر امتی
Plot in the way of excellent service,
So that you may attain prophecy within a community.
مکر کن تا وا رهی از مکر خودمکر کن تا فرد گردی از جسد
Plot to escape from your own plot,
Plot so that you may become detached from the body.
مکر کن تا کمترین بنده شویدر کمی رفتی خداونده شوی
Plot so that you may become the lowest servant,
When you have gone into decrease, you shall become a master.
روبهی و خدمت ای گرگ کهنهیچ بر قصد خداوندی مکن
Fox-like behavior and service, O old wolf,
Do never perform with the intention of lordship.
لیک چون پروانه در آتش بتازکیسه ای زان بر مدوز و پاک باز
But rush like a moth into the fire,
Do not sew a purse from it, and play losing everything.
زور را بگذار و زاری را بگیررحم سوی زاری آید ای فقیر
Leave force aside and take up weeping,
For mercy comes toward supplication, O poor one.
زاری مضطر تشنه معنویستزاری سرد دروغ آن غویست
The weeping of the distressed is a spiritual thirst,
While the cold, false weeping is that of the sinner.
گریه اخوان یوسف حیلتستکه درونشان پر ز رشک و علتست
The weeping of Joseph's brothers was a trick,
For their inside was full of envy and infirmity.

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