logo
How it worksCoursesResearch CommunitiesBenefitsAbout Us
Schedule Demo
Learn Before
Poem icon
Poem

دفتر اول - بخش ۴۰ - عتاب کردن آتش را آن پادشاه جهود / Book One - Section 40 - That Jewish King Reproaching the Fire

متن و ترجمه / Text and Translation

رو به آتش کرد شه «کای تندخوآن جهان سوز طبیعی خوت کو؟
The king turned toward the fire: "O fierce-tempered one,
Where is that nature of yours that burns up the world?
چون نمی سوزی چه شد خاصیتت؟یا ز بخت ما دگر شد نیتت؟
Why do you not burn? What has become of your special property?
Or has your intention changed because of our fortune?
می نبخشایی تو بر آتش پرست؛آنک نپرستد ترا، او چون برست؟
You do not spare the fire-worshipper;
How then did the one who does not worship you escape?
هرگز ای آتش تو صابر نیستیچون نسوزی؟ چیست؟ قادر نیستی؟
O fire, you have never been patient;
Why do you not burn? What is it? Are you powerless?
چشم بندست این عجب، یا هوش بند؟چون نسوزاند چنین شعله ٔ بلند؟
Is this wonder an eye-binding spell or a mind-binding one?
How does such a high flame not burn?
جادوی کردت کسی یا سیمیاست؟یا خلاف طبع تو از بخت ماست؟»
Has someone worked magic on you, or is it alchemy?
Or is this contrary to your nature because of our fortune?"
گفت آتش من همانم ای شمناندر آ تا تو ببینی تاب من
The fire said: "I am the same, O shaman/idol-priest;
Come in, so that you may see my heat.
طبع من دیگر نگشت و عنصرمتیغ حقم هم به دستوری برم
My nature has not changed, nor my element;
I am God's sword: I strike only by permission.
بر در خرگه سگان ترکمانچاپلوسی کرده پیش میهمان
At the door of the Turkmen's tent, the dogs
act ingratiatingly before the guest.
ور بخرگه بگذرد بیگانه روحمله بیند از سگان شیرانه او
But if a stranger-faced person passes by the tent,
he receives a lion-like attack from the dogs.
من ز سگ کم نیستم در بندگیکم ز ترکی نیست حق در زندگی
I am no less than a dog in servitude;
God is no less than a Turk in living sovereignty.
آتش طبعت اگر غمگین کندسوزش از امر ملیک دین کند
If the fire of your nature makes you sorrowful,
its burning does so by command of the King of religion.
آتش طبعت اگر شادی دهداندرو شادی ملیک دین نهد
If the fire of your nature gives joy,
the King of religion places joy within it.
چونک غم بینی تو استغفار کنغم بامر خالق آمد کار کن
When you see sorrow, seek forgiveness;
sorrow has come by the Creator's command: act.
چون بخواهد عین غم شادی شودعین بند پای آزادی شود
When He wills, sorrow itself becomes joy;
the very foot-shackle becomes freedom.
باد و خاک و آب و آتش بنده اندبا من و تو مرده با حق زنده اند
Wind and earth and water and fire are servants;
with me and you they are dead, but with God they are alive.
پیش حق آتش همیشه در قیامهمچو عاشق روز و شب پیچان مدام
Before God, fire is always standing in service,
like a lover, twisting day and night without cease.
سنگ بر آهن زنی بیرون جهدهم به امر حق قدم بیرون نهد
Strike stone on iron and a spark leaps out;
it too sets its foot forth by God's command.
آهن و سنگ هوا بر هم مزنکین دو می زایند همچون مرد و زن
Do not strike the iron and stone of desire together at random,
for these two give birth like man and woman.
سنگ و آهن خود سبب آمد ولیکتو به بالاتر نگر ای مرد نیک
Stone and iron are indeed causes, but
look higher, O good man,
کین سبب را آن سبب آورد پیشبی سبب کی شد سبب هرگز ز خویش
for that Cause brought this cause forward;
when did a cause ever become a cause by itself, without cause?
و آن سببها کانبیا را رهبرندآن سببها زین سببها برترند
And those causes that are guides to the prophets:
those causes are higher than these causes.
این سبب را آن سبب عامل کندباز گاهی بی بر و عاطل کند
That Cause makes this cause effective,
and then at times makes it fruitless and idle.
این سبب را محرم آمد عقلهاو آن سببها راست محرم انبیا
Intellects are intimate with these causes,
but the prophets are intimate with those causes.
این سبب چه بود بتازی گو رسناندرین چه این رسن آمد به فن
What is this cause? In Arabic, say: rope;
in this well, this rope is a device.
گردش چرخه رسن را علتستچرخه گردان را ندیدن زلتست
The turning of the pulley is the cause of the rope;
not seeing the pulley-turner is error.
این رسنهای سببها در جهانهان و هان زین چرخ سرگردان مدان
These ropes of causes in the world:
beware, beware, do not think they come from this bewildered wheel.
تا نمانی صفر و سرگردان چو چرختا نسوزی تو ز بی مغزی چو مرخ
So that you do not remain empty and bewildered like the wheel,
so that you do not burn from pithlessness like markh wood.
باد آتش می شود از امر حقهر دو سرمست آمدند از خمر حق
Wind becomes fire by God's command;
both are intoxicated with God's wine.
آب حلم و آتش خشم ای پسرهم ز حق بینی چو بگشایی بصر
The water of forbearance and the fire of anger, O son,
you will see both as from God when you open your sight.
گر نبودی واقف از حق جان بادفرق کی کردی میان قوم عاد
If the soul of the wind were not aware of God,
how would it have distinguished among the people of 'Ad?
هود گرد مؤمنان خطی کشیدنرم می شد باد کانجا می رسید
Hud drew a line around the believers;
the wind became gentle wherever it reached that place.
هر که بیرون بود زان خط جمله راپاره پاره می گسست اندر هوا
Whoever was outside that line,
it tore all of them to pieces in the air.
همچنین شیبان راعی می کشیدگرد بر گرد رمه خطی پدید
Likewise Shayban the shepherd drew
a visible line around the flock,
چون به جمعه می شد او وقت نمازتا نیارد گرگ آنجا ترک تاز
when he went to Friday prayer at the time of prayer,
so that no wolf would make a raid there.
هیچ گرگی در نرفتی اندر آنگوسفندی هم نگشتی زان نشان
No wolf would enter within it,
and no sheep would go out beyond that mark.
باد حرص گرگ و حرص گوسفنددایره ٔ مرد خدا را بود بند
The wind of the wolf's greed and the sheep's greed
was bound by the circle of the man of God.
همچنین باد اجل با عارفاننرم و خوش همچون نسیم یوسفان
Likewise the wind of death with the gnostics
is soft and pleasant, like Joseph-like breezes.
آتش ابراهیم را دندان نزدچون گزیده ٔ حق بود چونش گزد
Fire did not set its teeth in Abraham;
when someone is chosen by God, how could it bite him?
ز آتش شهوت نسوزد اهل دینباقیان را برده تا قعر زمین
The people of religion are not burned by the fire of lust;
it has carried the rest down to the depth of the earth.
موج دریا چون به امر حق بتاختاهل موسی را ز قبطی واشناخت
When the wave of the sea rushed by God's command,
it distinguished Moses' people from the Copts.
خاک قارون را چو فرمان در رسیدبا زر و تختش به قعر خود کشید
When the command reached the earth concerning Qarun,
it drew him, with his gold and throne, into its own depth.
آب و گل چون از دم عیسی چریدبال و پر بگشاد، مرغی شد پرید
When water and clay grazed on the breath of Jesus,
it opened wings and feathers, became a bird, and flew.
هست تسبیحت بخار آب و گلمرغ جنت شد ز نفخ صدق دل
Your glorification is vapor from water and clay;
through the breath of a sincere heart it became a bird of paradise.
کوه طور از نور موسی شد به رقصصوفی کامل شد و رست او ز نقص
Mount Tur danced from Moses' light;
it became a perfect Sufi and was freed from defect.
چه عجب گر کوه صوفی شد عزیزجسم موسی از کلوخی بود نیز
What wonder if the mountain became an honored Sufi?
Moses' body too was from a clod of earth."

0

1

Poem icon
Updated 2026-08-30

Contributors are:

G
Gemini AI
🏆 5

Who are from:

G
Google
🏆 5

References

Tags

Humanities

Literature

Islam

Religion

Science

Philosophy

Social Science

Persian Literature Prerequisite Course

Related
Learn After