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بخش ۳ - در سرِّ قرآن / Section 3 - On the Secret of the Quran

متن و ترجمه / Text and Translation

سر قرآن قران نکو داندزو شنو زانکه خود همو داند
The companion knows the secret of the Quran well;
Hear it from him, for he himself knows it.
چون نباشد ز محرمان بنهفتسر قرآن زبان چه داند گفت
Since it is not hidden from the intimates,
How could the tongue speak the secret of the Quran?
کی بنشناخت جز به دیدهٔ جانحرف پیمای را ز قرآن خوان
How can one distinguish, except with the eye of the soul,
The one who merely measures letters from the true reader of the Quran?
من نگویم اگرچه عثمانیکه تو قرآن همی نکو دانی
I do not say, even if you are like Uthman,
That you know the Quran well.
هست دنیا مثال تابستانخلق در وی بسان سرمستان
The world is like the summer season,
And creation in it is like the intoxicated.
در بیابان غفلتند همهمرگ همچون شبان و خلق رمه
They are all in the wilderness of heedlessness,
Death is like the shepherd and the people are the flock.
اندرین بادیهٔ هوا و هوانریگ گرم است همچو آب روان
In this desert of desire and degradation,
The hot sand seems like flowing water.
هست قرآن چو آب سرد فراتتو چو عاصی تشنه در عرصات
The Quran is like the cold water of the Euphrates,
And you are like a thirsty sinner on the Day of Resurrection.
حرف و قرآن تو ظرف و آب شمرآب می خور به ظرف در منگر
Consider the letters and the Quran as the vessel and the water;
Drink the water and do not look at the vessel.
کان کین زان نمایدت اوطانکه تموز است و مهر در سرطان
For that mine of malice appears to you as home
Because it is July and the sun is in Cancer.
زان بماندت نهاد بی روزهکآب سرد است و کوزه پیروزه
For this reason, your nature remained without fasting,
Because the water is cold and the jug is made of turquoise.
سر قرآن پاک با دل پاکدرد گوید به صوت اندهناک
The secret of the pure Quran, to a pure heart,
Speaks of pain in a sorrowful voice.
عقل کی شرح و بسط او داندذوق سر سر او نکو داند
How can the intellect know its explanation and detail?
Only spiritual taste knows the secret of its secret well.
گرچه نقش سخن نه از سخنستبوی یوسف درون پیرهنست
Although the image of words is not the words themselves,
The scent of Joseph is inside the shirt.
بود در مصر مانده یوسف خوببو به کنعان رسیده زی یعقوب
The beautiful Joseph remained in Egypt,
But his scent reached Jacob in Canaan.
حرف قرآن ز معنی قرآنهمچنانست کز لباس تو جان
The letters of the Quran compared to the meaning of the Quran
Are like your clothes compared to your soul.
حرف را بر زبان توان راندنجان قرآن به جان توان خواندن
The letters can be spoken by the tongue,
But the soul of the Quran can be read only by the soul.
صدف آمد حروف و قرآن درنشود مایل صدف دل حر
The letters are the shell and the Quran is the pearl;
The heart of a free person does not incline toward the shell.
حرف او گرچه خوب و منقوشستکوه از او همچو عهن منفوش است
Although its letters are beautiful and engraved,
The mountain is like carded wool before it.
از درون کن سماع موسی وارنز برون سو چو زیر موسیقار
Listen from within like Moses,
Not from without like the sound of a musical instrument.
جان چو آن خواند لقمه چرب کنددل که بشنود خرقه ضرب کند
When the soul reads that, it sweetens the morsel;
When the heart hears it, it beats the Sufi cloak.
لفظ و آواز و حرف در آیاتچون سه چوبک ز کاسهای نبات
The words, voice, and letters in the verses
Are like three sticks in bowls of rock candy.
پوست ار چه نه خوب و نغز بودپوستت پرده دار مغز بود
Although the husk may not be beautiful and fine,
The husk is the guardian of the kernel.
حکمت از خبث تو سرود آیدنبی از جهل تو فرود آید
Wisdom becomes poetry from your impurity,
The Prophet descends due to your ignorance.
تا در این تربتی که ترتیب استتا بر این مرکزی که ترکیب است
As long as you are in this dust which is ordered,
As long as you are on this center which is composed,
به بصر بید بین به دل طوبیبه زبان حرف خوان به دل معنی
Look at the willow with your sight, but at the Tuba tree with your heart;
Read the letters with your tongue, but the meaning with your heart.
بکن از بهر حرمت قرآنعقل را پیش نطق او قربان
For the sake of the Quran's sanctity,
Sacrifice the intellect before its speech.
عقل نبود دلیل اسرارشعقل عاجز شدست در کارش
Intellect is not the guide to its secrets;
Intellect has become helpless in its affair.
تا درین عالمی که پر صید استتا براین مرکبی که پر کیدست
As long as you are in this world full of prey,
As long as you are on this mount full of deceit,
تو کنون ناحفاظ و غمازیکی سزاوار پردهٔ رازی
Since you are now unfaithful and a slanderer,
How are you worthy of the veil of the mystery?
تو نگشتی بسر او واقفنرسیدی هنوز در موقف
You have not become aware of its secret,
You have not yet arrived at the station.
تا هوا خواهی و هوا داریکودکی کن نه مرد این کاری
As long as you follow desire and have self-interest,
Behave like a child; you are not a man for this work.
چون جهان هوا خرد بگرفتنیکی محض جای بد بگرفت
When the intellect took control of the world of desire,
Pure goodness took the place of evil.
دیو بگریخت هم به دوزخ آزیافت انگشتری سلیمان باز
The demon also fled back to the hell of greed,
And Solomon found his ring once again.
آنگهی بو که صبح دین بدمدشب وهم و خیال و حس برمد
Only then will the morning of religion dawn,
And the night of illusion, imagination, and senses flee.
چون ببینند مر ترا بی عیبروی پوشیدگان عالم غیب
When the veiled ones of the unseen world
Behold you without defect,
مر ترا در سرای غیب آرندپرده از پیش روی بردارند
They will bring you into the chamber of the unseen,
And remove the veil from before your face.
سر قرآن ترا چو بنمایندپرده های حروف بگشایند
When they show you the secret of the Quran,
They will open the veils of the letters.
خاکی اجزای خاک را بیندپاک باید که پاک را بیند
The earthly one sees only the components of dust;
One must be pure to see the Pure.
شد هزیمت ز سر او شیطانچه عجب گر رمید از قرآن
Satan was routed from its secret;
What wonder if he fled from the Quran?
در دماغی که دیو کبر دمدفهم قرآن از آن دماغ رمد
In a brain into which the demon of pride blows,
The understanding of the Quran flees from that brain.
ز استماع قرآن بتابد گوشوز پی سر سوره نازد هوش
The ear turns away from hearing the Quran,
And consciousness boasts of the secret of the surah.
سوی سر نبی نیارد هوشجز دل و جانت از زبان خموش
Consciousness does not bring attention to the secret of the Prophet,
Except through your heart and soul, while the tongue is silent.
هوش اگر گوشمال حق یابدسر قرآن ز سوره دریابد
If the intellect receives correction from the Truth,
It will understand the secret of the Quran from the surah.

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