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دفتر چهارم - بخش ۱۱۴ - گفتن خلیل مر جبرئیل را علیهماالسلام چون پرسیدش کی الک حاجة خلیل جوابش داد کی اما الیک فلا / Book Four - Section 114 - Khalil Saying to Gabriel, Peace Be Upon Them Both, When He Asked Him, 'Do You Have a Need?' Khalil Answered Him, 'As for You, No'

متن و ترجمه / Text and Translation

من خلیل وقتم و او جبرئیلمن نخواهم در بلا او را دلیل
I am the Khalil of this time and he is Gabriel —
In tribulation I do not want him as guide.
او ادب ناموخت از جبریل رادکه بپرسید از خلیل حق مراد
He learned no courtesy from noble Gabriel,
Who asked Khalil: "What is God's desire for you?"
که مرادت هست تا یاری کنمورنه بگریزم سبکباری کنم
"What is your wish, so that I may help you;
Otherwise I will flee and unburden myself."
گفت ابراهیم نی رو از میانواسطه زحمت بود بعد العیان
Abraham said: "No — go from between us;
After direct vision, the intermediary is a burden."
بهر این دنیاست مرسل رابطهمؤمنان را زانک هست او واسطه
For this reason the messenger exists in the world as a bond —
A link for believers, since he is their intermediary.
هر دل ار سامع بدی وحی نهانحرف و صوتی کی بدی اندر جهان
If every heart were a direct receiver of hidden revelation,
What need for letters and sound would exist in the world?
گرچه او محو حقست و بی سرستلیک کار من از آن نازکترست
Though he is annihilated in God and without a head,
Yet my work is more subtle than that.
کردهٔ او کردهٔ شاهست لیکپیش ضعفم بد نماینده ست نیک
His deed is the deed of the King — but
Before my weakness, what seems evil appears as good.
آنچ عین لطف باشد بر عوامقهر شد بر نازنینان کرام
What is pure grace for the common folk
Becomes wrath for the noble and delicate ones.
بس بلا و رنج می باید کشیدعامه را تا فرق را توانند دید
Much tribulation and pain the common people must endure
Until they can see the distinction.
کین حروف واسطه ای یار غارپیش واصل خار باشد خار خار
For these intermediary letters, O intimate companion,
Are thorns — thorn upon thorn — to the one who has attained.
بس بلا و رنج بایست و وقوفتا رهد آن روح صافی از حروف
Much tribulation and pain and standing were needed
Until that pure spirit could be freed from letters.
لیک بعضی زین صدا کرتر شدندباز بعضی صافی و برتر شدند
But some became deafer from this sound,
While others became purer and more elevated.
هم چو آب نیل آمد این بلاسعد را آبست و خون بر اشقیا
This tribulation came like the water of the Nile —
For the fortunate it is water, and blood for the wretched.
هر که پایان بین تر او مسعودترجدتر او کارد که افزون دید بر
Whoever sees the end more clearly is the more fortunate;
He works more earnestly, for he has seen greater reward.
زانک داند کین جهان کاشتنهست بهر محشر و برداشتن
For he knows that this world is a sowing
For the Resurrection and the harvest.
هیچ عقدی بهر عین خود نبودبلک از بهر مقام ربح و سود
No contract was ever for its own sake alone,
But for the station of profit and gain.
هیچ نبود منکری گر بنگریمنکری اش بهر عین منکری
There was never a denier, if you look carefully,
Whose denial was for the sake of denial itself —
بل برای قهر خصم اندر حسدیا فزونی جستن و اظهار خود
But rather to overpower the rival in envy,
Or to seek superiority and to display oneself.
وآن فزونی هم پی طمع دگربی معانی چاشنی ندهد صور
And that superiority is itself in pursuit of another desire.
Forms without meaning give no taste.
زان همی پرسی چرا این می کنیکه صور زیتست و معنی روشنی
Therefore you ask, "Why do you do this?" —
For form is the oil and meaning is the light.
ورنه این گفتن چرا از بهر چیستچونک صورت بهر عین صورتیست
Otherwise, what is the purpose of saying "why"?
Since form would be for the sake of form itself.
این چرا گفتن سوال از فایده ستجز برای این چرا گفتن بدست
Asking "why" is a question about benefit —
Except that asking "why" exists for this very reason.
از چه رو فایدهٔ جویی ای امینچون بود فایده این خود همین
Why do you seek benefit, O trustworthy one,
When the benefit is this very thing itself?
پس نقوش آسمان و اهل زمیننیست حکمت کان بود بهر همین
So the patterns of heaven and the people of earth —
There is no wisdom if they exist for this alone.
گر حکیمی نیست این ترتیب چیستور حکیمی هست چون فعلش تهیست
If there is no Wise One, what is this order?
And if there is a Wise One, how can His act be empty?
کس نسازد نقش گرمابه و خضابجز پی قصد صواب و ناصواب
No one creates the image of a bathhouse and henna
Except in pursuit of right or wrong intention.

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