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دفتر اول - بخش ۱۶۶ - جواب گفتن امیر المؤمنین کی سبب افکندن شمشیر از دست چه بوده است در آن حالت / Book One - Section 166 - The Commander of the Faithful Answering What Was the Cause of Dropping the Sword from His Hand in That State

متن و ترجمه / Text and Translation

گفت من تیغ از پی حق می زنمبندهٔ حقم نه مامور تنم
He said: "I strike the sword for the sake of Truth; I am the servant of Truth, not commanded by my body.
شیر حقم نیستم شیر هوافعل من بر دین من باشد گوا
I am the Lion of Truth, not the lion of passion; my action bears witness to my religion.
ما رمیت اذ رمیتم در حرابمن چو تیغم وان زننده آفتاب
'You did not throw when you threw' in battle: I am like the sword, and the one who strikes is the Sun.
رخت خود را من ز ره بر داشتمغیر حق را من عدم انگاشتم
I have lifted my own baggage from the road; I have counted everything other than Truth as nothing.
سایه ای ام کدخداام آفتابحاجبم من نیستم او را حجاب
I am a shadow whose householder/master is the Sun; I am a chamberlain, not a veil to Him.
من چو تیغم پر گهرهای وصالزنده گردانم نه کشته در قتال
I am like a sword filled with jewels of union; in combat I give life, I do not kill.
خون نپوشد گوهر تیغ مراباد از جا کی برد میغ مرا
Blood does not cover the jewel of my sword; how could wind move my cloud from its place?
که نیم کوهم ز حلم و صبر و دادکوه را کی در رباید تند باد
For I am a mountain through forbearance, patience, and justice; when does a fierce wind snatch away a mountain?
آنک از بادی رود از جا خسیستزانک باد ناموافق خود بسیست
What is moved from its place by a wind is but chaff, for adverse winds are many.
باد خشم و باد شهوت باد آزبرد او را که نبود اهل نماز
The wind of anger, the wind of lust, the wind of greed carries away one who is not fit for prayer.
کوهم و هستی من بنیاد اوستور شوم چون کاه بادم یاد اوست
I am a mountain, and my being has its foundation in Him; and if I become like straw, my wind is remembrance of Him.
جز به باد او نجنبد میل مننیست جز عشق احد سرخیل من
My inclination moves only by His wind; no one but love of the One is my leader.
خشم بر شاهان شه و ما را غلامخشم را هم بسته ام زیر لگام
Anger is king over kings, but it is our slave; I have bound anger under the bridle.
تیغ حلمم گردن خشمم زدستخشم حق بر من چو رحمت آمدست
The sword of my forbearance has struck the neck of my anger; God's anger has come to me as mercy.
غرق نورم گرچه سقفم شد خرابروضه گشتم گرچه هستم بوتراب
I am drowned in light though my roof has fallen in; I have become a garden though I am Abu Turab.
چون در آمد علتی اندر غزاتیغ را دیدم نهان کردن سزا
When a motive entered into the battle, I saw it proper to hide the sword.
تا احب لله آید نام منتا که ابغض لله آید کام من
So that 'he loves for God' may be my name; so that 'he hates for God' may be my desire;
تا که اعطا لله آید جود منتا که امسک لله آید بود من
So that 'he gives for God' may be my generosity; so that 'he withholds for God' may be my being.
بخل من لله عطا لله و بسجمله لله ام نیم من آن کس
My withholding is for God, my giving is for God, and nothing else; I am wholly for God, I am not that person/self.
وانچ لله می کنم تقلید نیستنیست تخییل و گمان جز دید نیست
What I do for God is not imitation; it is not imagination or conjecture, but only vision.
ز اجتهاد و از تحری رسته امآستین بر دامن حق بسته ام
I am freed from ijtihad and from investigation; I have fastened my sleeve to the hem of Truth.
گر همی پرم همی بینم مطارور همی گردم همی بینم مدار
If I fly, I see the place of flight; if I turn, I see the orbit.
ور کشم باری بدانم تا کجاماهم و خورشید پیشم پیشوا
And if I carry a burden, I know how far; I am the moon, and the sun before me is my guide.
بیش ازین با خلق گفتن روی نیستبحر را گنجایی اندر جوی نیست
More than this is not fit to say to the people; the sea has no room inside a stream.
پست می گویم به اندازهٔ عقولعیب نبود این بود کار رسول
I speak lowly, according to the measure of intellects; this is no fault; this is the work of the Messenger.
از غرض حرم گواهی حر شنوکه گواهی بندگان نه ارزد دو جو
Since I am free of self-interest, hear the testimony of a free man, for the testimony of slaves is not worth two barley grains.
در شریعت مر گواهی بنده رانیست قدری وقت دعوی و قضا
In the Shari'a, the testimony of a slave has no value at the time of claim and judgment.
گر هزاران بنده باشندت گواهبر نسنجد شرع ایشان را به کاه
If thousands of slaves are your witnesses, the Law does not weigh them against a straw.
بندهٔ شهوت بتر نزدیک حقاز غلام و بندگان مسترق
The slave of appetite is worse in God's sight than a slave or enslaved bondsman,
کین بیک لفظی شود از خواجه حروان زید شیرین میرد سخت مر
For that one becomes free by a single word from his master, while this one lives sweetly and dies bitterly and hard.
بندهٔ شهوت ندارد خود خلاصجز به فضل ایزد و انعام خاص
The slave of appetite has no deliverance except by God's grace and special favor.
در چهی افتاد کان را غور نیستوان گناه اوست جبر و جور نیست
He has fallen into a pit whose depth has no bottom; that is his own sin, not compulsion or injustice.
در چهی انداخت او خود را که مندرخور قعرش نمی یابم رسن
He has thrown himself into a pit for which I find no rope suited to its depth.
بس کنم گر این سخن افزون شودخود جگر چه بود که خارا خون شود
I will stop; if this speech grows longer, what is the liver/heart, that even rock would bleed?
این جگرها خون نشد نه از سختی استغفلت و مشغولی و بدبختی است
These hearts have not bled not because of hardness, but because of heedlessness, preoccupation, and misfortune.
خون شود روزی که خونش سود نیستخون شو آن وقتی که خون مردود نیست
They will bleed on a day when their blood is of no use; bleed at the time when blood is not rejected.
چون گواهی بندگان مقبول نیستعدل او باشد که بندهٔ غول نیست
Since the testimony of slaves is not accepted, His justice is that He is not the slave of a ghoul/delusion.
گشت ارسلناک شاهد در نذرزانک بود از کون او حر بن حر
'We sent you as a witness' came among the warnings because from his very being he was free, son of the free.
چونک حرم خشم کی بندد مرانیست اینجا جز صفات حق در آ
Since I am free, how can anger bind me? There is nothing here but the attributes of Truth: enter.
اندر آ کآزاد کردت فضل حقزانک رحمت داشت بر خشمش سبق
Enter, for God's grace has freed you, since His mercy preceded His wrath.
اندر آ اکنون که رستی از خطرسنگ بودی کیمیا کردت گهر
Enter now, for you have escaped danger; you were stone, and alchemy has made you a jewel.
رسته ای از کفر و خارستان اوچون گلی بشکف به سروستان هو
You have escaped unbelief and its thorn-brake; like a rose, blossom in the cypress-grove of Hu.
تو منی و من توم ای محتشمتو علی بودی علی را چون کشم
You are I and I am you, O honored one; you were Ali: how could I kill Ali?
معصیت کردی به از هر طاعتیآسمان پیموده ای در ساعتی
You committed a sin better than any act of obedience; you traversed the heavens in an instant.
بس خجسته معصیت کان کرد مردنه ز خاری بر دمد اوراق ورد
How blessed the sin that this man committed; do rose leaves not grow from a thorn?
نه گناه عمر و قصد رسولمی کشیدش تا بدرگاه قبول
Did not Umar's sin and his intent against the Messenger draw him to the threshold of acceptance?
نه بسحر ساحران فرعونشانمی کشید و گشت دولت عونشان
Did not the sorcery of Pharaoh's magicians draw them on, and did fortune become their aid?
گر نبودی سحرشان و آن جحودکی کشیدیشان به فرعون عنود
Had their sorcery and that denial not existed, how would it have drawn them to obstinate Pharaoh?
کی بدیدندی عصا و معجزاتمعصیت طاعت شد ای قوم عصات
How would they have seen the staff and the miracles? Sin became obedience, O company of sinners.
ناامیدی را خدا گردن زدستچون گنه مانند طاعت آمدست
God has struck off the neck of despair, since sin has become like obedience.
چون مبدل می کند او سیئاتطاعتی اش می کند رغم وشات
When He transforms evil deeds, He makes them obedience, in spite of slanderers.
زین شود مرجوم شیطان رجیموز حسد او بطرقد گردد دو نیم
By this the accursed, stoned Satan is stoned, and from envy he splits in two with a crack.
او بکوشد تا گناهی پروردزان گنه ما را به چاهی آورد
He strives to nurture a sin, so that through that sin he may bring us into a pit.
چون ببیند کان گنه شد طاعتیگردد او را نامبارک ساعتی
When he sees that the sin has become obedience, the hour becomes unlucky for him.
اندر آ من در گشادم مر تراتف زدی و تحفه دادم مر ترا
Enter; I have opened the door for you. You spat, and I gave you a gift.
مر جفاگر را چنینها می دهمپیش پای چپ چه سان سر می نهم
To one who acts harshly I give such things; how, then, do I lay my head before the foot of one who steps rightly?
پس وفاگر را چه بخشم تو بدانگنجها و ملکهای جاودان
Then know what I shall give to the faithful one: treasures and everlasting kingdoms."

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