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دفتر چهارم - بخش ۸۹ - در بیان آنک وهم قلب عقلست و ستیزهٔ اوست بدو ماند و او نیست و قصهٔ مجاوبات موسی علیه‌السلام کی صاحب عقل بود با فرعون کی صاحب وهم بود / Book Four — Section 89 — On the Explanation That Illusion (Wahm) Is the Counterfeit of Intellect and Its Adversary, Resembling It Yet Not Being It, and the Story of the Dialogues of Moses, Peace Be Upon Him, Who Was a Person of Intellect, with Pharaoh, Who Was a Person of Illusion

متن و ترجمه / Text and Translation

عقل ضد شهوتست ای پهلوانآنک شهوت می تند عقلش مخوان
Intellect is the opposite of lust, O champion;
do not call it intellect in one who spins lust.
وهم خوانش آنک شهوت را گداستوهم قلب نقد زر عقلهاست
Call it illusion (wahm) in one who is lust's beggar;
illusion is the counterfeit coin of the pure gold of intellects.
بی محک پیدا نگردد وهم و عقلهر دو را سوی محک کن زود نقل
Without a touchstone, illusion and intellect cannot be distinguished;
quickly bring them both to the touchstone.
این محک قرآن و حال انبیاچون محک مر قلب را گوید بیا
This touchstone is the Quran and the states of the prophets;
when the touchstone says to the counterfeit coin, "Come,
تا ببینی خویش را ز آسیب منکه نه ای اهل فراز و شیب من
so that you may see yourself from my harm —
that you are not fit for my ascending and descending."
عقل را گر اره ای سازد دو نیمهم چو زر باشد در آتش او بسیم
If intellect is sawed in two by a saw,
like gold in fire it gleams all the brighter.
وهم مر فرعون عالم سوز راعقل مر موسی به جان افروز را
Illusion belongs to Pharaoh, the world-burner;
intellect belongs to Moses, the soul-illuminator.
رفت موسی بر طریق نیستیگفت فرعونش بگو تو کیستی
Moses went on the path of annihilation (nistī);
Pharaoh said to him, "Tell me, who are you?"
گفت من عقلم رسول ذوالجلالحجةالله ام امانم از ضلال
He said, "I am intellect, the messenger of the Lord of Majesty;
I am the Proof of God (Ḥujjat-Allāh); I am safety from error."
گفت نی خامش رها کن های هونسبت و نام قدیمت را بگو
He said, "No — be silent, leave off this clamor;
tell me your ancient lineage and name."
گفت که نسبت مر از خاکدانشنام اصلم کمترین بندگانش
He said, "My lineage comes from His dust-heap;
my essential name is: the least of His servants,
بنده زادهٔ آن خداوند وحیدزاده از پشت جواری و عبید
born a servant of that unique Lord,
born from the loins of slave-women and bondsmen (jawārī wa ʿabīd).
نسبت اصلم ز خاک و آب و گلآب و گل را داد یزدان جان و دل
My essential lineage is from earth, water, and clay;
to water and clay, God (Yazdān) gave soul and heart.
مرجع این جسم خاکم هم به خاکمرجع تو هم به خاک ای سهمناک
The return of this earthly body of mine is also to earth;
your return too is to earth, O fearsome one.
اصل ما و اصل جمله سرکشانهست از خاکی و آن را صد نشان
The origin of us and the origin of all the rebellious
is from earth — and there are a hundred signs of that:
که مدد از خاک می گیرد تنتاز غذایی خاک پیچد گردنت
your body draws its sustenance from earth;
from earth's nourishment your neck stiffens with pride.
چون رود جان می شود او باز خاکاندر آن گور مخوف سهمناک
When the soul departs, it turns back to earth again
in that fearsome and dreadful grave.
هم تو و هم ما و هم اشباه توخاک گردند و نماند جاه تو
Both you and we and all your like
will become earth, and your station will remain no more."
گفت غیر این نسب نامیت هستمر ترا آن نام خود اولیترست
He said, "Besides this lineage, you have another name,
and that name is far more fitting for you:
بندهٔ فرعون و بندهٔ بندگانشکه ازو پرورد اول جسم و جانش
Slave of Pharaoh and slave of his slaves,
for it was by him that his body and soul were first nurtured;
بندهٔ یاغی طاغی ظلومزین وطن بگریخته از فعل شوم
a rebellious, tyrannical, and oppressive slave,
who fled this homeland on account of a wicked deed;
خونی و غداری و حق ناشناسهم برین اوصاف خود می کن قیاس
murderer, traitor, and ingrate —
measure yourself against these attributes as well.
در غریبی خوار و درویش و خلقکه ندانستی سپاس ما و حق
In exile — lowly, destitute, and of base disposition —
who showed no gratitude to us or acknowledgment of our right."
گفت حاشا که بود با آن ملیکدر خداوندی کسی دیگر شریک
He said, "God forbid that with that King
there should be any other partner in lordship.
واحد اندر ملک او را یار نیبندگانش را جز او سالار نی
He is unique in His kingdom; He has no companion;
His servants have no master but Him.
نیست خلقش را دگر کس مالکیشرکتش دعوی کند جز هالکی
None else holds ownership over His creation;
only the perishing one claims partnership with Him.
نقش او کردست و نقاش من اوستغیر اگر دعوی کند او ظلم جوست
He has made me His image, and He is my painter;
if another makes this claim, he seeks injustice.
تو نتانی ابروی من ساختنچون توانی جان من بشناختن
You cannot fashion my eyebrow —
how then can you claim to know my soul?
بلک آن غدار و آن طاغی تویکه کنی با حق دعوی دوی
No — it is you who are the traitor and the tyrant,
you who make a claim of duality against the Truth.
گر بکشتم من عوانی را به سهونه برای نفس کشتم نه به لهو
If I killed a taskmaster by mistake,
I did not kill for the ego's sake, nor for sport.
من زدم مشتی و ناگاه اوفتادآنک جانش خود نبد جانی بداد
I struck a blow and he suddenly fell;
one whose soul was already feeble surrendered a worthless soul.
من سگی کشتم تو مرسل زادگانصدهزاران طفل بی جرم و زیان
I killed a dog; you have slaughtered the children of the messengers (mursal-zādagān),
a hundred thousand innocent and harmless children.
کشته ای و خونشان در گردنتتا چه آید بر تو زین خون خوردنت
Their blood is upon your neck —
see what comes upon you from this blood-drinking of yours.
کشته ای ذریت یعقوب رابر امید قتل من مطلوب را
You have slaughtered the progeny of Jacob (Yaʿqūb)
in hope of killing me, the desired one.
کوری تو حق مرا خود برگزیدسرنگون شد آنچ نفست می پزید
In your blindness, the Truth (Ḥaqq) itself chose me;
what your ego was plotting has been overturned."
گفت اینها را بهل بی هیچ شکاین بود حق من و نان و نمک
He said, "Leave all these aside — without any doubt
this was my right, my bread and salt:
که مرا پیش حشر خواری کنیروز روشن بر دلم تاری کنی
that you should humiliate me before the assembly
and darken my heart on a bright day."
گفت خواری قیامت صعب ترگر نداری پاس من در خیر و شر
He said, "The humiliation of the Resurrection (qiyāmat) is far more severe
if you do not observe my right in good and ill.
زخم کیکی را نمی تانی کشیدزخم ماری را تو چون خواهی چشید
You cannot endure the bite of a flea —
how will you taste the bite of a serpent?
ظاهرا کار تو ویران می کنملیک خاری را گلستان می کنم
Outwardly I am ruining your work,
but I am turning a thorn-patch into a rose garden."

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