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بخش ۱ - المقاله الثمانیه / Section 1 - The Eighth Discourse

متن و ترجمه / Text and Translation

چرا بودی چو بودی کارت افتادچه گویم عقبه دشوارت افتاد
Why did you come to be? Since you came to be, your task has begun;
What can I say? A difficult obstacle has fallen to you.
ترا چه جرم کآوردندت ای دوستتویی در راه معنی مغز هر پوست
What is your crime that they brought you, O friend?
You are, on the path of meaning, the kernel of every shell.
معادن مغز ارکانست لیکننباتست آنگهی مغز معادن
Minerals are the kernel of the elements, but
Then plants are the kernel of minerals.
وزو مغز نبات افتاده حیوانوزان پس مغز حیوان گشت انسان
And from that, the kernel of plants became animals,
And after that, the kernel of animals became human.
ز انسان انبیا گشته خلاصهوزیشان سید سادات خاصه
From humans, the prophets became the essence,
And from them, the Master of Masters specifically.
ازین هفت آسمان در راه معنیبباید رفت تا درگاه مولی
From these seven heavens, on the path of meaning,
One must go until the threshold of the Lord.
همی هرچه از کمال اصل دورستازو طبع حقیقت بین نفورست
Whatever is far from the perfection of the origin,
The truth-seeing nature is averse to it.
جمادی بودهٔ حیی شدی توکجا لاشی بدی شیئی شدی تو
You were inanimate, you became living,
Where you were nothingness, you became a thing.
چنان خواهم که بر ترتیب اولنداری یک نفس خود را معطل
I desire that, according to the original order,
You do not leave yourself idle for a single breath.
ز رتبت سوی رتبت می نهی گامبرون می آیی از یک یک خم دام
You step from rank to rank,
You come out of every single bend of the snare.
نهادت پر گره بندست جان رااز آن جان می نبینی آن جهان را
Your nature is a fetter full of knots for the soul,
Because of that, O soul, you do not see that world.
نهادت پر گره کردند از آغازبه یک یک دم شود یک یک گره باز
They made your nature full of knots from the beginning,
With every single breath, a single knot is opened.
چه دانی ای به زیر کوه زادهکه تو زیر چه باری اوفتاده
What do you know, O one born under the mountain,
Under what burden you have fallen?
کسی را زیر کوهی پروریدندبه زیر بار کوهش آوریدند
They raised someone under a mountain,
They brought him under the burden of a mountain.
جهانی بار بر پشتش نهادندبه زیر بار کوهش خوی دادند
They placed a world of burden on his back,
They accustomed him to being under the burden of the mountain.
مه از کوهست بار او و او مورهمه آفاق خورشیدست او کور
His burden is greater than a mountain and he is an ant,
All horizons are the sun, and he is blind.
چو برگیرند ازو بار گران رابه یک ساعت ببیند آن جهان را
When they lift the heavy burden from him,
In one hour he sees that world.
شکیبائی بجان او درآیدهمه عالم نشان او برآید
Patience enters his soul,
The whole world becomes his sign.
چو نور جاودان آید به پیششفرو ماند عجب آید ز خویشش
When the eternal light comes before him,
He remains bewildered, he is amazed at himself.
به دل گوید که چون گشتم چنین منز شک چون آمدم سوی یقین من
He says to his heart, 'How did I become like this?
How did I come from doubt to certainty?'
منم این یا نیم من اینت بشگفتکه نور من همه آفاق بگرفت
Am I this, or am I not? This is wondrous,
That my light encompassed all horizons.
چو نابینای مادرزاد ناگاهکه یابد نور چشم خود به یک راه
Like someone born blind, suddenly,
Who finds the light of his eyes all at once.
چو بیند روشنایی جهان اوچگونه خیره ماند آن زمان او
When he sees the brightness of the world,
How bewildered he remains at that time.
ترا همچون سرآید زندگانیدر آن عالم به عینه هم چنانی
When your life comes to an end like this,
In that world you will be exactly like that.
از آن تاریک جا چون دور گردیقرین عالم پر نور گردی
When you become distant from that dark place,
You become a companion of the world full of light.
عجب ماتی درآن چندان عجایبغریبت آید آن چندان غرایب
You are wondrously amazed among so many wonders,
Those many marvels seem strange to you.
همی چندان که چشم تو کند کارهمی خورشید بینی ذره کردار
As far as your eyes can work,
You see the sun acting like a speck.
در آن حضرت که امکان ثبوتستفلک چون دستباف عنکبوتست
In that Presence where there is possibility of permanence,
The firmament is like the hand-weaving of a spider.
کجا آنجا وجود کس نمایدنمد چون در بر اطلس نماید
How could anyone's existence show there?
How could felt show next to satin?
به پیش آفتاب عالم آرایکجا ماند وجود سایه بر جای
Before the world-adorning sun,
How can the existence of a shadow remain in place?
از آن پس پرده هستی درآیدسر از رفعت سوی پستی درآید
After that, the veil of existence falls away,
The head comes down from loftiness to lowliness.
همی چندانک کردی نیک و بد توهمه آماده بینی گرد خود تو
However much good and bad you have done,
You see it all ready around you.
اگر بد کردهٔ زیر حجابیوگرنه با بزرگان هم رکابی
If you have done bad, you are under a veil,
And if not, you are riding alongside the great ones.
به نیکی و بدی در کار خویشیهمه آیینهء کردار خویشی
In good and bad, you are in your own work,
You are entirely the mirror of your own deeds.
اگر نیکست و گر بد کار و کردارشود در پیش روی تو پدیدار
Whether your work and deeds are good or bad,
They will appear before your face.

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