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دفتر چهارم - بخش ۵۱ - قصهٔ صوفی کی در میان گلستان سر به زانو مراقب بود یارانش گفتند سر برآور تفرج کن بر گلستان و ریاحین و مرغان و آثار رحمةالله تعالی / Book Four — Section 51 — Story of the Sufi Who, in the Midst of a Rose Garden, Was Absorbed in Contemplation with His Head upon His Knee; His Companions Said: 'Lift Your Head and Delight in the Rose Garden, the Fragrant Herbs, the Birds, and the Signs of God's Mercy, Exalted Be He'

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صوفیی در باغ از بهر گشادصوفیانه روی بر زانو نهاد
A Sufi, in a garden for the sake of heart's expansion,
Sufi-fashion, laid his face upon his knee.
پس فرو رفت او به خود اندر نغولشد ملول از صورت خوابش فضول
Then he sank deep within himself in absorption;
His impertinent companion grew weary of his apparent slumber —
که چه خسپی آخر اندر رز نگراین درختان بین و آثار و خضر
"Why do you sleep? Come, look at the vineyard!
Behold these trees, these signs, and the verdure!
امر حق بشنو که گفته ست انظرواسوی این آثار رحمت آر رو
Hear God's command, for He has said: 'Look!'
Turn your face toward these signs of mercy."
گفت آثارش دلست ای بوالهوسآن برون آثار آثارست و بس
He replied: "His true signs are the heart, O man of whims;
Those outward signs are but traces of traces, nothing more.
باغها و سبزه ها در عین جانبر برون عکسش چو در آب روان
Gardens and verdure exist in the very essence of the soul;
Their outer reflection is like an image in flowing water.
آن خیال باغ باشد اندر آبکه کند از لطف آب آن اضطراب
That is the garden's image in the water,
Which the grace of water sets into trembling agitation.
باغها و میوه ها اندر دلستعکس لطف آن برین آب و گلست
Gardens and fruits are within the heart;
The reflection of that grace falls upon this water and clay.
گر نبودی عکس آن سرو سرورپس نخواندی ایزدش دار الغرور
Had there been no reflection of that cypress of delight,
God would not have called this world the Dār al-Ghurūr — the Abode of Delusion.
این غرور آنست یعنی این خیالهست از عکس دل و جان رجال
This ghurūr — that is to say, this illusion —
Is born from the reflection of the hearts and souls of men.
جمله مغروران برین عکس آمدهبر گمانی کین بود جنت کده
All the deluded have come in pursuit of this reflection,
Supposing that this is the abode of paradise.
می گریزند از اصول باغهابر خیالی می کنند آن لاغها
They flee from the original gardens
And frolic over an illusion.
چونک خواب غفلت آیدشان به سرراست بینند و چه سودست آن نظر
When the sleep of heedlessness reaches its end for them,
They see truly — but what use is that sight?
بس به گورستان غریو افتاد و آهتا قیامت زین غلط وا حسرتاه
Many a wail and lament has fallen in the graveyard —
Until the Resurrection: 'Wā ḥasratāh — alas for this error!'
ای خنک آن را که پیش از مرگ مردیعنی او از اصل این رز بوی برد
Blessed is the one who died before death —
For he caught the scent of the origin of this vineyard."

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