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دفتر چهارم - بخش ۱۰۹ - در بیان آنک شناسای قدرت حق نپرسد کی بهشت و دوزخ کجاست / Book Four - Section 109 - Explaining That One Who Knows the Power of God Does Not Ask Where Heaven and Hell Are

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هر کجا خواهد خدا دوزخ کنداوج را بر مرغ دام و فخ کند
Wherever God wills, He makes Hell —
He turns the heights into a snare and trap for the bird.
هم ز دندانت برآید دردهاتا بگویی دوزخست و اژدها
From your own teeth pain will arise,
so that you say: 'This is Hell and the dragon.'
یا کند آب دهانت را عسلکه بگویی که بهشتست و حلل
Or He turns the saliva in your mouth to honey,
so that you say: 'This is Paradise and its robes.'
از بن دندان برویاند شکرتا بدانی قوت حکم قدر
From the root of the tooth He causes sugar to grow,
so that you know the power of the decree of Fate.
پس به دندان بی گناهان را مگزفکر کن از ضربت نامحترز
So do not bite the innocent with your teeth;
think of the blow of the unavoidable strike.
نیل را بر قبطیان حق خون کندسبطیان را از بلا محصون کند
The Nile, God turns to blood for the Egyptians,
but protects the Israelites from that calamity —
تا بدانی پیش حق تمییز هستدر میان هوشیار راه و مست
so that you know that before God there is discernment
between the wakeful traveler on the path and the drunk.
نیل تمییز از خدا آموختستکه گشاد آن را و این را سخت بست
The Nile has learned discernment from God:
He opened it for these and tightly shut it for those.
لطف او عاقل کند مر نیل راقهر او ابله کند قابیل را
His grace makes the Nile wise;
His wrath makes Cain foolish.
در جمادات از کرم عقل آفریدعقل از عاقل به قهر خود برید
In inanimate things He created intellect out of generosity,
and from the rational being He severed intellect by His own wrath.
در جماد از لطف عقلی شد پدیدوز نکال از عاقلان دانش رمید
In the inanimate, through grace, an intellect appeared;
and from the wise, through punishment, knowledge fled.
عقل چون باران به امر آنجا بریختعقل این سو خشم حق دید و گریخت
Intellect, like rain, poured there by His command;
intellect on this side saw God's wrath and fled.
ابر و خورشید و مه و نجم بلندجمله بر ترتیب آیند و روند
Clouds and sun and moon and the high stars —
all come and go in their ordained order;
هر یکی ناید مگر در وقت خویشکه نه پس ماند ز هنگام و نه پیش
none comes except in its own time,
neither lagging behind the moment nor arriving before.
چون نکردی فهم این را ز انبیادانش آوردند در سنگ و عصا
Since you did not understand this from the prophets,
they brought knowledge into stone and staff —
تا جمادات دگر را بی لباسچون عصا و سنگ داری از قیاس
so that you hold other inanimate things, unadorned,
like the staff and stone, by analogy.
طاعت سنگ و عصا ظاهر شودوز جمادات دگر مخبر شود
The obedience of stone and staff becomes manifest
and is reported from other inanimate things:
که ز یزدان آگهیم و طایعیمما همه نی اتفاقی ضایعیم
'We are aware of God and we are obedient;
we are not all random and wasted.'
هم چو آب نیل دانی وقت غرقکو میان هر دو امت کرد فرق
As you know the water of the Nile at the time of drowning —
how it made a distinction between the two peoples;
چون زمین دانیش دانا وقت خسفدر حق قارون که قهرش کرد و نسف
as you know the earth as wise at the time of the earthquake
concerning Qarun, whom He crushed and destroyed;
چون قمر که امر بشنید و شتافتپس دو نیمه گشت بر چرخ و شکافت
as the moon, which heard the command and hastened,
then split in two upon the celestial sphere and was cleft;
چون درخت و سنگ کاندر هر مقاممصطفی را کرده ظاهرالسلام
as the tree and stone that, in every station,
overtly greeted Mustafa with salutations.

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