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بخش ۵۱ - فی تناقض الدارین / Section 51 - On the Contradiction of the Two Abodes

متن و ترجمه / Text and Translation

علت روز و شب خور است و زمینچون گذشتی نه آنت ماند و نه این
The cause of day and night is the sun and the earth;
Once you have passed beyond, neither this remains nor that.
ای دو بر زعم تو مراد و مریددویی از عقل دان نه از توحید
These two, in your fancy, are the desired and the desirer;
Know that duality comes from the intellect, not from Unity.
در چنین حضرت ار ز من شنویچون همه شد یکی مجوی دویی
In such a Presence, if you hear it from me:
Since all has become one, do not seek duality.
که بر این در اگرچه پر شورستزال زر همچو زال بی زورست
For at this door, though it is full of tumult,
Zal-e Zar is as weak as a powerless old woman.
در دویی دان مشقت و تمییزدر یکیئی یکیست رستم و حیز
In duality, recognize hardship and discrimination;
In oneness, Rostam and the coward are but one.
در مصاف صفا و ساحت دلبر فراز روان و تارک گل
In the battlefield of purity and the arena of the heart,
Upon the height of the soul and the crown of the clay.
تیغ تا نفکنی سپر نشویتا بننهی کلاه سر نشوی
Until you cast away the sword, you will not become a shield;
Until you lay down the hat, you will not become a head.
تا دلت بندهٔ کلاه بودفعل تو سال و مه گناه بود
As long as your heart is a slave to the hat,
Your actions, all year and month, shall be sin.
چون شدی فارغ از کلاه و کمربر سران زمانه گشتی سر
When you became free from the hat and the belt,
You became a head over the masters of the age.
ترک ترکیب رخش توفیق ستنفی ترتیب محض تحقیق ست
Relinquishing the composition of the horse of success;
Negating the order is the essence of realization.
مردن دل هلاک جان باشدمردن جان ورا امان باشد
The death of the heart would be the destruction of the soul;
The death of the soul brings it security.
صدرهٔ صدر پادشاه سخنفارغ آمد ز سوزن و ناخن
The garment of the breast of the King of Speech
Is free from the needle and the fingernail.
اندرین ره به هیچ روی مایستنیست گرد و ز نیست گشتن نیست
On this path, do not stand still in any manner;
Become naught, and do not fear becoming naught.
گرم رو گرچه فی المثل تنهاستنیست یکتن که عالمی برپاست
The swift traveler, though he be seemingly alone,
Is not a single person, for a world is sustained by him.
چون تو برخاستی ز نفس و ز عقلاین جهانت بدان جهان شد نقل
When you rose above the self and the intellect,
This world of yours was transferred to that world.
هر سری کز تو رست هم در دمسر بزن چون چراغ و شمع و قلم
Every head that sprouted from you, in that very moment,
Strike it off like a lamp, a candle, and a pen.
زانکه هر سر که دیدنی باشددر طریقت بریدنی باشد
For every head that is meant to be seen,
In the Way, it is meant to be severed.
بی سری پیش گردنان ادبستزانکه پیوسته سر کله طلبست
To be headless before the arrogant is etiquette,
Because the head is constantly seeking a crown.
بی سری مر ترا سر آرد باردرج پر در ز بی سریست انار
Headlessness shall bear you a head;
The casket full of pearls comes from the pomegranate's headlessness.
سر کل را کله پناه بودبا چنین سر کله گناه بود
For the bald head, the hat is a shelter;
With such a head, the hat is a sin.
تو بزیر کلاه غش داریلاجرم جسر نار نگذاری
You have deceit hidden under the hat;
Inevitably, you shall not cross the bridge of fire.
آدمی را ز جاه بهتر چاهکل فضولی شود چو یافت کلاه
For man, a well is better than status;
The whole becomes meddlesome when it finds a crown.
جاه یوسف ز چاه پیدا شدنفس دانا ز عقل گویا شد
Joseph's status appeared from the well;
The wise soul became eloquent through the intellect.
زانکه در بارگاه ربانیمن بگویم اگر نمیدانی
For in the Divine court,
I shall tell you, if you do not know:
آن نکوتر که اندرین معراجدست بر سر کنی نیابی تاج
It is better that in this ascension,
You place your hand on your head and find no crown.
کز پی غیب مرده ره پویدوز پی عیب کل کله جوید
For the sake of the unseen, the dead one treads the path;
And for the sake of a flaw, the whole seeks a crown.
چون سلیمان کمال ره را دادهمچو یوسف جمال چه را داد
When Solomon gave perfection to the path,
Like Joseph, he gave beauty to the well.
تا نشد نقش صورتت چاهینشود نقش سرت اللهی
Until the image of your form becomes a well,
The image of your head will not become Divine.
با کلاهت اگر زیان باشدقلب او خود هلاک جان باشد
If there is harm within your hat,
Its heart itself will be the destruction of the soul.
در طریقت سر و کلاه مدارورنه داری چو شمع دل پر نار
In the Way, possess neither head nor hat,
Otherwise, you will have a heart full of fire like a candle.
گر همی یوسفیت باید و جاهپیش حق باشگونه پال چو چاه
If you desire Joseph-like beauty and status,
Be upside down before Truth like a well.
سر که آن بندهٔ کلاه بودهمچو بیژن اسیر چاه بود
The head that is a slave to the hat
Is like Bizhan, a prisoner in the well.
ور کله بایدت همی ناچارهمچو شمع آن کلاه از آتش دار
And if you must have a hat,
Like the candle, have that hat made of fire.
کانکه در عشق شمع ره باشدهمچو شمع آتشین کله باشد
For he who is the light of the path in love,
Like the candle, has a fiery hat.
ای ز صورت چنانکه جان از جسمدل ز وحدت چنانکه مرد از اسم
O you, from form as the soul is from the body,
The heart from unity as the man from the name.
کوشش از تن کشش ز جان خیزدچشش از ترک این و آن خیزد
Effort arises from the body, attraction from the soul;
Tasting arises from relinquishing this and that.
تا ابد با قدم حدث طفل استوانکه صافی برون ازین ثفل است
Until eternity, compared to the Eternal, the created is a child;
And he who is pure is outside this dross.
تا زمین جای آدمی زایستخیمهٔ روزگار برپایست
As long as the earth is a place for bearing humans,
The tent of time is established.
این زمین میهمان سرایی دانآدمی را چو کدخدایی دان
Consider this earth a guest house;
Consider man as the steward.

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