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دفتر دوم - بخش ۹۴ - آغاز منور شدن عارف بنور غیب‌بین / Book Two – Section 94 – The Beginning of the Mystic's Illumination by the Light of the Unseen-Seeing

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چون یکی حس در روش بگشاد بندما بقی حسها همه مبدل شوند
When one sense loosens its bond along its path,
The remaining senses all become transformed.
چون یکی حس غیر محسوسات دیدگشت غیبی بر همه حسها پدید
When one sense perceives beyond the sensibles,
The unseen becomes manifest to all the senses.
چون ز جو جست از گله یک گوسفندپس پیاپی جمله زان سو برجهند
When from the flock one sheep leaps across the stream,
Then one after another all the others leap to that side.
گوسفندان حواست را براندر چرا از اخرج المرعی چران
Drive the sheep of your senses to graze
In the pasture of "He brought forth the pasture" (Qur'an 79:31).
تا در آنجا سنبل و ریحان چرندتا به گلزار حقایق ره برند
So that there they may graze on hyacinth and sweet basil,
So that they may find the way to the rose-garden of realities.
هر حست پیغامبر حسها شودتا یکایک سوی آن جنت رود
Each of your senses will become a prophet to the senses,
So that one by one they go toward that paradise.
حسها با حس تو گویند رازبی حقیقت بی زبان و بی مجاز
The senses speak secrets with your sense,
Without literal truth, without tongue, and without metaphor.
کین حقیقت قابل تاویلهاستوین توهم مایه تخییلهاست
For this reality is susceptible to interpretations (ta'wīl),
And this imagination is the substance of fantasies.
آن حقیقت را که باشد از عیانهیچ تاویلی نگنجد در میان
That reality which is from direct vision ('ayān),
No interpretation (ta'wīl) can find a place within it.
چونک هر حس بندهٔ حس تو شدمر فلکها را نباشد از تو بد
When every sense becomes the servant of your sense,
The heavens will suffer no harm from you.
چونک دعویی رود در ملک پوستمغز آن کی بود قشر آن اوست
When a claim is made in the kingdom of the shell,
Whose is the kernel? — the shell belongs to its owner.
چون تنازع در فتد در تنگ کاهدانه آن کیست آن را کن نگاه
When dispute falls into the narrow straw,
Whose is the grain? — look carefully at that.
پس فلک قشرست و نور روح مغزاین پدیدست آن خفی زین رو ملغز
So the celestial sphere (falak) is the shell, and the light of the spirit is the kernel;
This is visible, that is hidden — hence it is a riddle.
جسم ظاهر، روح مخفی آمدستجسم همچون آستین جان همچو دست
The body has come as outer, the spirit as hidden;
The body is like a sleeve, the soul like a hand.
باز عقل از روح مخفی تر پردحس سوی روح زوتر ره برد
Yet the intellect ('aql) soars more hidden than the spirit,
The sense finds its way to the spirit more swiftly.
جنبشی بینی بدانی زنده استاین ندانی که ز عقل آکنده است
You see movement and know it is alive,
But you do not know that it is filled with intellect.
تا که جنبشهای موزون سر کندجنبش مس را به دانش زر کند
Until it performs harmonious movements,
Movement transforms copper into gold through knowledge.
زان مناسب آمدن افعال دستفهم آید مر تو را که عقل هست
From the fittingness of the hand's actions,
Understanding comes to you that intellect is present.
روح وحی از عقل پنهان تر بودزانک او غیبیست او زان سر بود
The spirit of revelation (rūḥ-i waḥy) is more hidden than the intellect,
Because it is of the unseen; it comes from that mystery.
عقل احمد از کسی پنهان نشدروح وحیش مدرک هر جان نشد
Ahmad's intellect was not hidden from anyone,
But the spirit of his revelation was not perceptible to every soul.
روح وحیی را مناسبهاست نیزدر نیابد عقل کان آمد عزیز
The spirit of revelation also has its fitting correspondences,
The intellect cannot grasp it, for it has come as something rare.
گه جنون بیند گهی حیران شودزانک موقوفست تا او آن شود
Sometimes it sees madness, sometimes becomes bewildered,
Because it is suspended until it itself becomes that.
چون مناسبهای افعال خضرعقل موسی بود در دیدش کدر
Just as with the fitting-correspondences of Khidr's actions,
Moses' intellect was turbid in its sight of them.
نامناسب می نمود افعال اوپیش موسی چون نبودش حال او
His actions appeared unfitting
Before Moses, since Moses did not possess his spiritual state (ḥāl).
عقل موسی چون شود در غیب بندعقل موشی خود کیست ای ارجمند
When Moses' intellect becomes bound in the unseen,
What then is a mouse's intellect, O noble one?
علم تقلیدی بود بهر فروختچون بیابد مشتری خوش بر فروخت
Imitative knowledge ('ilm-i taqlīdī) is for selling;
When it finds a buyer, it sells it gladly.
مشتری علم تحقیقی حقستدایما بازار او با رونقست
The buyer of realized knowledge ('ilm-i taḥqīqī) is the Real (Ḥaqq),
Its market is always thriving.
لب ببسته مست در بیع و شریمشتری بی حد که الله اشتری
Lips sealed, drunk in buying and selling,
A buyer without limit — for "God has purchased" (Qur'an 9:111).
درس آدم را فرشته مشتریمحرم درسش نه دیوست و پری
The angel is the buyer of Adam's lesson,
Neither demon nor fairy is privy to his lesson.
آدم انبئهم باسما درس گوشرح کن اسرار حق را مو به مو
Adam, "inform them of the names" (Qur'an 2:33) — give the lesson,
Explain the secrets of the Real hair by hair.
آنچنان کس را که کوته بین بوددر تلون غرق و بی تمکین بود
As for that person who is short-sighted,
Drowned in fluctuation (talawwun) and without stability (tamkīn).
موش گفتم زانک در خاکست جاشخاک باشد موش را جای معاش
I called him a mouse because his place is in the earth;
Earth is the mouse's place of livelihood.
راهها داند ولی در زیر خاکهر طرف او خاک را کردست چاک
He knows the paths, but underground;
In every direction he has split the earth apart.
نفس موشی نیست الا لقمه رندقدر حاجت موش را عقلی دهند
The mouse's soul is nothing but a cunning morsel-hunter;
They give the mouse intellect according to the measure of its need.
زانک بی حاجت خداوند عزیزمی نبخشد هیچ کس را هیچ چیز
For without need, the Glorious Lord
Does not grant anything to anyone.
گر نبودی حاجت عالم زمیننافریدی هیچ رب العالمین
If the world of earth had had no need,
The Lord of the Worlds would have created nothing at all.
وین زمین مضطرب محتاج کوهگر نبودی نافریدی پر شکوه
And this agitated earth needing mountains —
If there were no need, He would not have created them in their majesty.
ور نبودی حاجت افلاک همهفت گردون ناوریدی از عدم
And if the celestial spheres also had had no need,
The seven heavens would not have been brought from non-existence.
آفتاب و ماه و این استارگانجز به حاجت کی پدید آمد عیان
Sun and moon and these stars —
When would they have become manifest except through need?
پس کمند هستها حاجت بودقدر حاجت مرد را آلت دهد
So the lasso of existences is need;
According to the measure of need, one is given the instrument.
پس بیفزا حاجت ای محتاج زودتا بجوشد در کرم دریای جود
So increase your need quickly, O needy one,
So that the sea of generosity may surge in grace.
این گدایان بر ره و هر مبتلاحاجت خود می نماید خلق را
These beggars on the road and every afflicted one
Show their need to the people.
کوری و شلی و بیماری و دردتا ازین حاجت بجنبد رحم مرد
Blindness and lameness and illness and pain,
So that from this need the mercy of a man may be stirred.
هیچ گوید نان دهید ای مردمانکه مرا مالست و انبارست و خوان
Does anyone say "give bread, O people,"
When he has wealth and a granary and a spread table?
چشم ننهادست حق در کورموشزانک حاجت نیست چشمش بهر نوش
God has not placed an eye in the mole,
Because for its sustenance there is no need for eyes.
می تواند زیست بی چشم و بصرفارغست از چشم او در خاک تر
It can live without eyes and sight;
It is free from needing eyes in the wet earth.
جز بدزدی او برون ناید ز خاکتا کند خالق از آن دزدیش پاک
Except by stealing does it come out of the earth,
So that the Creator purifies it from that theft.
بعد از آن پر یابد و مرغی شودچون ملایک جانب گردون رود
After that it gains wings and becomes a bird;
Like the angels it goes toward the heavens.
هر زمان در گلشن شکر خدااو بر آرد همچو بلبل صد نوا
At every moment in the rose-garden, in gratitude to God,
It raises a hundred melodies like the nightingale.
کای رهاننده مرا از وصف زشتای کننده دوزخی را تو بهشت
Saying: O You who freed me from the ugly attribute,
O You who turn a hell into a paradise!
در یکی پیهی نهی تو روشنیاستخوانی را دهی سمع ای غنی
In a single piece of fat You place light;
To a bone You give hearing, O Self-Sufficient One!
چه تعلق آن معانی را به جسمچه تعلق فهم اشیا را به اسم
What connection have those meanings to the body?
What connection has the understanding of things to the name?
لفظ چون وکرست و معنی طایرستجسم جوی و روح آب سایرست
The word is like a nest and the meaning is like a bird;
The body is like a stream and the spirit is like flowing water.
او روانست و تو گویی واقفستاو دوانست و تو گویی عاکفست
It is flowing and you say it is standing still;
It is running and you say it is stationary.
گر نبینی سیر آب از چاکهاچیست بر وی نو به نو خاشاکها
If you cannot see the water's flow through the cracks,
What are the bits of straw that appear upon it one after another?
هست خاشاک تو صورتهای فکرنو بنو در می رسد اشکال بکر
Your straw is the forms of thought;
Fresh shapes arrive one after another.
روی آب و جوی فکر اندر روشنیست بی خاشاک محبوب و وحش
The surface of the water and the stream of thought in motion
Is not without straw — beloved and wild.
قشرها بر روی این آب رواناز ثمار باغ غیبی شد دوان
Husks upon this flowing water
Have come streaming from the fruits of the unseen garden.
قشرها را مغز اندر باغ جوزانک آب از باغ می آید به جو
Seek the kernel of the husks in the garden,
For the water comes from the garden to the stream.
گر نبینی رفتن آب حیاتبنگر اندر جوی و این سیر نبات
If you cannot see the flowing of the Water of Life,
Look at the stream and the growth of vegetation.
آب چون انبه تر آید در گذرزو کند قشر صور زوتر گذر
When the water comes more abundantly in passage,
The husk of forms passes more swiftly over it.
چون بغایت تیز شد این جو روانغم نپاید در ضمیر عارفان
When this flowing stream becomes extremely swift,
Grief does not endure in the heart of the mystics ('ārifān).
چون بغایت ممتلی بود و شتابپس نگنجید اندرو الا که آب
When it is utterly full and rushing,
Nothing can find place within it except water.

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