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دفتر ششم - بخش ۷۲ - جواب گفتن مرید و زجر کردن مرید آن طعانه را از کفر و بیهوده گفتن / Book Six - Section 72 - The disciple answering and rebuking that scorner for his blasphemy and vain words

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بانگ زد بر وی جوان و گفت بسروز روشن از کجا آمد عسس
The youth shouted at him and said, 'Enough!
Where does the night-watchman come from in broad daylight?
نور مردان مشرق و مغرب گرفتآسمان ها سجده کردند از شگفت
The light of the men [of God] has enveloped the East and West;
The heavens have bowed down in wonder.
آفتاب حق بر آمد از حملزیر چادر رفت خورشید از خجل
The Sun of Truth has risen from Aries;
The physical sun has hidden under a veil in shame.
ترهات چون تو ابلیسی مراکی بگرداند ز خاک این سرا
How can the vain words of a devil like you
Turn me away from the dust of this court?
من به بادی نامدم هم چون سحابتا به گردی باز گردم زین جناب
I did not come by a wind like a cloud
That I should turn back from this threshold by some dust.
عجل با آن نور شد قبلهٔ کرمقبله بی آن نور شد کفر و صنم
With that Light, the Calf became a qibla of generosity;
Without that Light, the Qibla became disbelief and an idol.
هست اباحت کز هوای آمد ضلالهست اباحت کز خدا آمد کمال
There is a permissibility that comes from desire which is error,
There is a permissibility that comes from God which is perfection.
کفر ایمان گشت و دیو اسلام یافتآن طرف کان نور بی اندازه تافت
Disbelief turned into faith, and the demon found Islam,
In that direction where that boundless Light shone.
مظهر عزست و محبوب به حقاز همه کروبیان برده سبق
He is the manifestation of glory and the beloved of Truth;
He has surpassed all the Cherubim.
سجده آدم را بیان سبق اوستسجده آرد مغز را پیوست پوست
The prostration to Adam is the proof of his precedence;
The skin always bows to the marrow.
شمع حق را پف کنی تو ای عجوزهم تو سوزی هم سرت ای گنده پوز
Do you blow at the candle of Truth, O old crone?
You will burn yourself and your head, O foul-mouthed one!
کی شود دریا ز پوز سگ نجسکی شود خورشید از پف منطمس
When does the sea become impure from the muzzle of a dog?
When is the sun extinguished by a puff of breath?
حکم بر ظاهر اگر هم می کنیچیست ظاهرتر بگو زین روشنی
Even if you judge by outward appearance,
Tell me, what is more apparent than this brightness?
جمله ظاهرها به پیش این ظهورباشد اندر غایت نقص و قصور
All appearances, in the presence of this manifestation,
Are in the utmost extreme of defect and shortcoming.
هر که بر شمع خدا آرد پف اوشمع کی میرد ؟ بسوزد پوز او
Whoever brings a puff against the candle of God,
When will the candle die? His muzzle will burn.
چون تو خفاشان بسی بینند خوابکاین جهان ماند یتیم از آفتاب
Many bats like you dream
That this world will be left an orphan by the sun.
موج های تیز دریاهای روحهست صد چندان که بد طوفان نوح
The sharp waves of the seas of the spirit
Are a hundred times greater than Noah's flood.
لیک اندر چشم کنعان موی رستنوح و کشتی را بهشت و کوه جست
But a hair grew in the eye of Canaan;
He abandoned Noah and the Ark and sought the mountain.
کوه و کنعان را فرو برد آن زماننیم موجی تا به قعر امتهان
At that time, half a wave swallowed
The mountain and Canaan to the depths of tribulation.
مه فشاند نور و سگ وع وع کندسگ ز نور ماه کی مرتع کند ؟
The moon sheds light and the dog barks;
How can a dog pasture upon the light of the moon?
شب روان و همرهان مه به تگترک رفتن کی کنند از بانگ سگ
When do the night-travelers and companions of the moon
Cease their journeying because of the barking of a dog?
جزو سوی کل دوان مانند تیرکی کند وقف از پی هر گنده پیر
The part running towards the whole like an arrow,
When does it stop for every foul old crone?
جان شرع و جان تقوی عارف استمعرفت محصول زهد سالف است
The soul of the Law and the soul of piety is the gnostic;
Gnosis is the harvest of past asceticism.
زهد اندر کاشتن کوشیدن استمعرفت آن کشت را روییدن است
Asceticism is striving in sowing;
Gnosis is the growing of that sown field.
پس چو تن باشد جهاد و اعتقادجان این کشتن نبات است و حصاد
Therefore, when jihad and belief are the body,
The soul of this cultivation is the plant and the harvest.
امر معروف او و هم معروف اوستکاشف اسرار و هم مکشوف اوست
He is the command of good and the good itself;
He is the discoverer of secrets and the discovered.
شاه امروزینه و فردای ماستپوست بندهٔ مغز نغزش دایم است
He is our king of today and tomorrow;
The shell is forever the slave of his fine kernel.
چون انا الحق گفت شیخ و پیش بردپس گلوی جمله کوران را فشرد
When the Shaykh said 'I am the Truth' and carried it forward,
He then squeezed the throats of all the blind.
چون انای بنده لا شد از وجودپس چه ماند تو بیندیش ای جحود
When the 'I' of the servant became nothing from existence,
Then what remains? Think, O denier!
گر ترا چشمی ست بگشا در نگربعد لا آخر چه می ماند دگر
If you have an eye, open it and look:
After 'nothing' (la), what else remains ultimately?
ای بریده آن لب و حلق و دهانکه کند تف سوی مه یا آسمان
O cut off be that lip and throat and mouth,
That spits towards the moon or the sky!
تف به رویش باز گردد بی شکیتف سوی گردون نیابد مسلکی
The spit will doubtless return to his own face;
Spit finds no path towards the heavens.
تا قیامت تف برو بارد ز ربهم چو تبت بر روان بولهب
Until the Resurrection, spit will rain on him from the Lord,
Like 'May the hands perish' (Tabbat) upon the soul of Abu Lahab.
طبل و رایت هست ملک شهریارسگ کسی که خواند او را طبل خوار
The drum and the banner belong to the King's dominion;
A dog is he who calls him a drum-eater.
آسمان ها بندهٔ ماه وی اندشرق و مغرب جمله نان خواه وی اند
The heavens are the slaves of his moon;
The East and the West are all beggars for his bread.
زانک لولاک است بر توقیع اوجمله در انعام و در توزیع او
Because 'But for thee' (Lawlaka) is on his signet;
All are in his bounty and his distribution.
گر نبودی او نیابیدی فلکگردش و نور و مکانی ملک
If it were not for him, the firmament would not have found
Its rotation, and light, and the dwelling of angels.
گر نبودی او نیابیدی بحارهیبت و ماهی و در شاهوار
If it were not for him, the seas would not have found
Majesty, and fish, and the royal pearl.
گر نبودی او نیابیدی زمیندر درونه گنج و بیرون یاسمین
If it were not for him, the earth would not have found
Treasure within its core, and jasmine on its surface.
رزقها هم رزق خواران وی اندمیوه ها لب خشک باران وی اند
Provisions too are the provision-eaters of his;
Fruits have dry lips awaiting his rain.
هین که معکوس است در امر این گرهصدقه بخش خویش را صدقه بده
Beware, for this knot is inverted in the matter:
Give charity to the one who bestows charity upon you!
از فقیرستت همه زر و حریرهین غنی را ده زکاتی ای فقیر
All your gold and silk are from the poor dervish;
Come, O poor man, give alms to the rich!
چون تو ننگی جفت آن مقبول روحچون عیال کافر اندر عقد نوح
How can a disgrace like you be the mate of that accepted spirit?
Like the infidel wife in the marriage of Noah.
گر نبودی نسبت تو زین سراپاره پاره کردمی این دم ترا
If you had no relation to this house,
I would have torn you to pieces this very moment.
دادمی آن نوح را از تو خلاصتا مشرف گشتمی من در قصاص
I would have delivered that Noah from you,
So that I might be honored in retaliation.
لیک با خانهٔ شهنشاه زمناین چنین گستاخیی ناید ز من
But with the house of the King of the Age,
Such insolence will not come from me.
رو دعا کن که سگ این موطنیورنه اکنون کردمی من کردنی
Go and pray, for you are a dog of this homeland;
Otherwise, I would have done right now what I should have done.

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