1Cademy - دفتر سوم - بخش ۵۹ - عقول خلق متفاوتست در اصل فطرت و نزد معتزله متساویست تفاوت عقول از تحصیل علم است / Book Three - Section 59 - The Intellects of People Differ in Their Innate Nature, While According to the Mutazila They Are Equal and the Difference in Intellects Comes From the Acquisition of Knowledge

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مثنوی معنوی: دفتر سوم / Masnavi: Book Three

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دفتر سوم - بخش ۵۹ - عقول خلق متفاوتست در اصل فطرت و نزد معتزله متساویست تفاوت عقول از تحصیل علم است / Book Three - Section 59 - The Intellects of People Differ in Their Innate Nature, While According to the Mu'tazila They Are Equal and the Difference in Intellects Comes From the Acquisition of Knowledge

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اختلاف عقلها در اصل بود
بر وفاق سنیان باید شنود

بر خلاف قول اهل اعتزال
که عقول از اصل دارند اعتدال

تجربه و تعلیم بیش و کم کند
تا یکی را از یکی اعلم کند

باطلست این زانک رای کودکی
که ندارد تجربه در مسلکی

بر دمید اندیشه‌ای زان طفل خرد
پیر با صد تجربه بویی نبرد

خود فزون آن به که آن از فطرتست
تا ز افزونی که جهد و فکرتست

تو بگو دادهٔ خدا بهتر بود
یاکه لنگی راهوارانه رود

English translation

The difference of intellects was in the origin — This must be heard in accordance with the Sunnis,

Contrary to the opinion of the people of Mu'tazila, Who hold that intellects are equal in origin

And that experience and instruction make them more or less, So that one becomes more learned than another.

This is false — for the opinion of a child Who has no experience in any path of life

Breathed forth a thought from that small boy Which an elder with a hundred experiences could not perceive.

That surplus which comes from innate nature (fitra) is better Than the surplus that comes from striving and reflection.

Tell us: would God's gift be better, Or that a lame man should walk smoothly?

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