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دفتر چهارم - بخش ۵۸ - چالیش عقل با نفس هم چون تنازع مجنون با ناقه میل مجنون سوی حره میل ناقه واپس سوی کره چنانک گفت مجنون هوا ناقتی خلفی و قدامی الهوی و انی و ایاها لمختلفان / Book Four - Section 58 - The struggle of the intellect with the nafs is like the conflict of Majnun with his she-camel: Majnun's yearning is toward the freeborn woman, the she-camel's yearning is backward toward her foal; as Majnun said, 'The desire of my she-camel is behind me, and my desire is before me, and verily she a

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هم چو مجنون اند و چون ناقه ش یقینمی کشد آن پیش و این واپس به کین
They are like Majnun and like his she-camel, without doubt—
That one pulls forward, this one backward, in enmity.
میل مجنون پیش آن لیلی روانمیل ناقه پس پی کره دوان
Majnun's yearning flows forward toward that Layla;
The she-camel's yearning runs back, chasing after her foal.
یک دم ار مجنون ز خود غافل بدیناقه گردیدی و واپس آمدی
If for one moment Majnun were heedless of himself,
The she-camel would turn and come back the other way.
عشق و سودا چونک پر بودش بدنمی نبودش چاره از بی خود شدن
Since love and passion filled his body full,
He had no escape from becoming self-oblivious.
آنک او باشد مراقب، عقل بودعقل را، سودای لیلی در ربود
He who keeps watch is the intellect;
But the passion of Layla carried the intellect away.
لیک ناقه بس مراقب بود و چستچون بدیدی او مهار خویش سست
Yet the she-camel was very watchful and nimble;
Whenever she perceived her own halter growing slack,
فهم کردی زو که غافل گشت و دنگرو سپس کردی به کره بی درنگ
She understood from it that he had grown heedless and dazed,
And turned her face back toward the foal without delay.
چون به خود باز آمدی دیدی ز جاکو سپس رفتست بس فرسنگها
When he came back to himself, he saw from his place
That she had gone back many farsakhs behind.
در سه روزه ره بدین احوالهاماند مجنون در تردد سالها
On a three-day road, in conditions such as these,
Majnun lingered in vacillation for years.
گفت ای ناقه چو هر دو عاشقیمما دو ضد پس همره نالایقیم
He said: "O she-camel, since we are both lovers,
We are two opposites—unfit to journey together.
نیستت بر وفق من مهر و مهارکرد باید از تو صحبت اختیار
You have neither love nor halter in accord with me;
I must choose separation from your company."
این دو همره یکدگر را راه زنگمره آن جان کو فرو ناید ز تن
These two travel-companions are each other's highway robbers;
Lost astray is the soul that does not descend from the body.
جان ز هجر عرش اندر فاقه ایتن ز عشق خاربن چون ناقه ای
The soul, in separation from the Throne, is in destitution;
The body, in love of the thornbush, is like a she-camel.
جان گشاید سوی بالا بالهادر زده تن در زمین چنگالها
The soul spreads wings upward toward the heights;
The body has driven its claws into the earth.
تا تو با من باشی ای مردهٔ وطنپس ز لیلی دور ماند جان من
As long as you are with me, O one dead to the homeland,
My soul remains far from Layla.
روزگارم رفت زین گون حالهاهم چو تیه و قوم موسی سالها
My life has passed away in conditions like these—
Like the Tīh and the people of Moses, year after year.
خطوتینی بود این ره تا وصالمانده ام در ره ز شستت شصت سال
This road to union was but two paces;
I have lingered on the road sixty years because of you.
راه نزدیک و بماندم سخت دیرسیر گشتم زین سواری سیرسیر
The road is near, yet I have tarried far too long;
I am utterly sated with this riding—sated and sated again.
سرنگون خود را از اشتر در فکندگفت سوزیدم ز غم تا چندچند
Headlong he cast himself from the camel,
Saying: "I have burned with grief—how long, how long more?"
تنگ شد بر وی بیابان فراخخویشتن افکند اندر سنگلاخ
The wide desert grew narrow upon him;
He cast himself onto the rocky ground.
آنچنان افکند خود را سخت زیرکه مخلخل گشت جسم آن دلیر
He threw himself down so violently
That the body of that brave one was shaken to pieces.
چون چنان افکند خود را سوی پستاز قضا آن لحظه پایش هم شکست
When he cast himself thus toward the low ground,
By fate, at that very moment, his foot also broke.
پای را بر بست و گفتا گو شومدر خم چوگانش غلطان می روم
He bound his foot and said: "Let me be a ball—
Rolling, I go in the curve of His polo-stick."
زین کند نفرین حکیم خوش دهنبر سواری کو فرو ناید ز تن
From this, the eloquent-tongued sage pronounces a curse
Upon the rider who does not descend from the body.
عشق مولی کی کم از لیلی بودگوی گشتن بهر او اولی بود
When is the love of the Master (Mawlā) less than Layla's?
Becoming a ball for His sake is more fitting.
گوی شو می گرد بر پهلوی صدقغلط غلطان در خم چوگان عشق
Become a ball; roll on the side of sincerity (ṣidq),
Tumbling and rolling in the curve of love's polo-stick.
کین سفر زین پس بود جذب خداوان سفر بر ناقه باشد سیر ما
For this journey henceforth is God's divine attraction (jazb),
And that other journey—upon the she-camel—is our own traveling.
این چنین سیریست مستثنی ز جنسکان فزود از اجتهاد جن و انس
Such a journey is exempt from every ordinary kind,
For it surpasses all the striving of jinn and humankind.
این چنین جذبیست نی هر جذب عامکه نهادش فضل احمد والسلام
Such an attraction (jazb) is not every common attraction—
Aḥmad's grace has established it, and peace be upon him.

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