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دفتر چهارم - بخش ۱۶ - قصهٔ مسجد اقصی و خروب و عزم کردن داود علیه‌السلام پیش از سلیمان علیه‌السلام بر بنای آن مسجد / Book Four — Section 16 — The Story of the Aqsa Mosque and the Carob, and David's (peace be upon him) Resolve Before Solomon (peace be upon him) to Build That Mosque

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چون درآمد عزم داودی به تنگکه بسازد مسجد اقصی به سنگ
When David's resolve was pressed to its limit
to build the Aqsa Mosque in stone,
وحی کردش حق که ترک این بخوانکه ز دستت برنیاید این مکان
God revealed to him: Abandon this intent,
for this place cannot be raised by your hand.
نیست در تقدیر ما آنک تو اینمسجد اقصی بر آری ای گزین
It is not in Our decree that you
should raise this Aqsa Mosque, O chosen one.
گفت جرمم چیست ای دانای رازکه مرا گویی که مسجد را مساز
He said: What is my crime, O Knower of secrets,
that You bid me not to build the mosque?
گفت بی جرمی تو خونها کرده ایخون مظلومان بگردن برده ای
He said: Without sin, you have shed rivers of blood,
the blood of the oppressed you have carried on your neck.
که ز آواز تو خلقی بی شمارجان بدادند و شدند آن را شکار
For at your voice, a multitude without number
gave up their souls and became its prey.
خون بسی رفتست بر آواز توبر صدای خوب جان پرداز تو
Much blood has flowed because of your voice,
because of your beautiful, soul-surrendering sound.
گفت مغلوب تو بودم مست تودست من بر بسته بود از دست تو
He said: I was overcome by You, drunk with You;
my hand was bound by Your hand.
نه که هر مغلوب شه مرحوم بودنه که المغلوب کالمعدوم بود
Is not every one overcome by the King shown mercy?
Is not "the overcome as the nonexistent"?
گفت این مغلوب معدومیست کوجز به نسبت نیست معدوم ایقنوا
He said: This overcome one — what nonexistence is this?
He is nonexistent only in relation — know this for certain.
این چنین معدوم کو از خویش رفتبهترین هستها افتاد و زفت
Such a nonexistent one who has gone from himself
has fallen into the finest of existences, strong and mighty.
او به نسبت با صفات حق فناستدر حقیقت در فنا او را بقاست
In relation to the attributes of God he is in fanā',
but in truth, within fanā' he has baqā'.
جملهٔ ارواح در تدبیر اوستجملهٔ اشباح هم در تیر اوست
All souls are under his governance,
and all bodies too are within his aim.
آنک او مغلوب اندر لطف ماستنیست مضطر بلک مختار ولاست
He who is overcome within Our grace
is not compelled but is freely sovereign.
منتهای اختیار آنست خودکه اختیارش گردد اینجا مفتقد
The very pinnacle of free will is this itself:
that his will becomes here wholly absent.
اختیاری را نبودی چاشنیگر نگشتی آخر او محو از منی
Free will would have had no savor
had it not ultimately become annihilated from selfhood.
در جهان گر لقمه و گر شربتستلذت او فرع محو لذتست
In the world, whether morsel or drink,
its pleasure is a branch of the annihilation of pleasure.
گرچه از لذات بی تاثیر شدلذتی بود او و لذت گیر شد
Though he became unaffected by pleasures,
he was himself a pleasure and became a receiver of pleasure.

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