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دفتر ششم - بخش ۵۱ - جواب گفتن آن قاضی صوفی را / Book Six - Section 51 - The Qadi Answering the Sufi

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گفت قاضی صوفیا خیره مشویک مثالی در بیان این شنو
The Qadi said, 'O Sufi, do not be bewildered;
Hear an example in explanation of this.
هم چنانک بی قراری عاشقانحاصل آمد از قرار دلستان
Just as the restlessness of lovers
Arises from the calm of the beloved.
او چو که در ناز ثابت آمدهعاشقان چون برگها لرزان شده
Since she has become steadfast in coquetry like a mountain,
The lovers have become trembling like leaves.
خندهٔ او گریه ها انگیختهآب رویش آب روها ریخته
Her laughter has provoked weepings,
Her radiance has spilled the tears of many.
این همه چون و چگونه چون زبدبر سر دریای بی چون می تپد
All these "hows" and "whys" are like foam,
Palpitating on the surface of the incomparable sea.
ضد و ندش نیست در ذات و عملزان بپوشیدند هستیها حلل
He has no opposite or equal in essence and action;
From that, existences have put on garments.
ضد ضد را بود و هستی کی دهدبلک ازو بگریزد و بیرون جهد
Opposite destroys opposite, how could it give it existence?
Rather, it flees from it and leaps out.
ند چه بود مثل مثل نیک و بدمثل مثل خویشتن را کی کند
What is an equal? The likeness of good and bad.
How can a likeness create its own likeness?
چونک دو مثل آمدند ای متقیاین چه اولیتر از آن در خالقی
Since two likes exist, O pious one,
Why is one more worthy than the other to be the Creator?
بر شمار برگ بستان ند و ضدچون کفی بر بحر بی ضدست و ند
Count the leaves of the garden as opposites and equals;
They are like foam on the sea that is without opposite and equal.
بی چگونه بین تو برد و مات بحرچون چگونه گنجد اندر ذات بحر
Behold the unconditioned winning and losing of the sea;
How can the conditioned be contained in the essence of the sea?
کمترین لعبت او جان تستاین چگونه و چون جان کی شد درست
His least plaything is your soul;
How and when did this "how" and "why" of the soul become sound?
پس چنان بحری که در هر قطر آناز بدن ناشی تر آمد عقل و جان
Then such a sea, in every drop of which,
Intellect and soul arose more than the body.
کی بگنجد در مضیق چند و چونعقل کل آنجاست از لا یعلمون
How can it be contained in the strait of "how much" and "how"?
Universal Intellect is there among those who do not know.
عقل گوید مر جسد را که ای جمادبوی بردی هیچ از آن بحر معاد
The Intellect says to the body, "O inanimate thing,
Have you caught any scent of that sea of return?"
جسم گوید من یقین سایهٔ تومیاری از سایه که جوید جان عم
The body says, "I am certainly your shadow;
Who seeks help from a shadow, O uncle?"
عقل گوید کین نه آن حیرت سراستکه سزا گستاخ تر از ناسزاست
The Intellect says, "This is not that house of bewilderment,
Where the worthy is more insolent than the unworthy.
اندرینجا آفتاب انوریخدمت ذره کند چون چاکری
In this place, a most luminous sun
Does service to a mote like a servant.
شیر این سو پیش آهو سر نهدباز اینجا نزد تیهو پر نهد
Here the lion bows its head before the deer;
Here the falcon drops its wings before the partridge.
این ترا باور نیاید مصطفیچون ز مسکینان همی جوید دعا
You may not believe this; but how is it that Mustafa (the Prophet)
Seeks prayers from the destitute?
گر بگویی از پی تعلیم بودعین تجهیل از چه رو تفهیم بود
If you say it was for the sake of teaching;
Why would absolute ignorance be a means of imparting understanding?
بلک می داند که گنج شاهواردر خرابیها نهد آن شهریار
Rather, he knows that the royal treasure
Is placed by that Monarch in ruins.
بدگمانی نعل معکوس ویستگرچه هر جزویش جاسوس ویست
Suspicion is His reversed horseshoe,
Although every part of it is His spy.
بل حقیقت در حقیقت غرقه شدزین سبب هفتاد بل صد فرقه شد
Rather, reality was drowned in reality;
For this reason, seventy, nay, a hundred sects arose.
با تو قلماشیت خواهم گفت هانصوفیا خوش پهن بگشا گوش جان
I will speak to you in a fabricated way, beware!
O Sufi, open wide the ear of your soul.
مر ترا هم زخم که آید ز آسمانمنتظر می باش خلعت بعد آن
When a blow comes to you from heaven,
Wait for a robe of honor after that.
کو نه آن شاهست کت سیلی زندپس نبخشد تاج و تخت مستند
For He is not that King who strikes you a slap
And then does not grant a crown and an established throne.
جمله دنیا را پر پشه بهاسیلیی را رشوت بی منتها
The whole world is worth a mosquito's wing;
For a slap, there is infinite reward.
گردنت زین طوق زرین جهانچست در دزد و ز حق سیلی ستان
Slip your neck out of this golden collar of the world,
And receive a slap from God.
آن قفاها که انبیا برداشتندزان بلا سرهای خود افراشتند
Those slaps that the prophets endured,
By that tribulation they raised their heads.
لیک حاضر باش در خود ای فتیتا به خانه او بیابد مر ترا
But be present within yourself, O youth,
So that He may find you at home.
ورنه خلعت را برد او باز پسکه نیابیدم به خانه ش هیچ کس
Otherwise, He will take the robe of honor back,
Saying, 'I found no one in his house.'"

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