1Cademy - بخش ۳۱ - فی الحكایة و التمثیل / Section 31

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Mosibat Nameh

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بخش ۳۱ - فی الحكایة و التمثیل / Section 31 - The Tale and the Parable

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سائلی در مجمعی بر پای خاست	گفت در بصره حسن مهتر چراست
A questioner stood up in an assembly And asked, 'Why is Hasan the leader in Basra?'
گفت از آن کامروز در صدق و مجاز	هست خلقی را بعلم او نیاز
He replied, 'Because today, in truth and metaphor, A multitude of people need his knowledge.
واو بیک جو نیست حاجتمند کس	او بدنیا کی بود در بند کس
And he does not need anyone for even a grain of barley, When would he be bound to anyone in this world?
او ز جمله فارغست از زاد وبرگ	خلق حاجتمند او تا روز مرگ
He is free from everyone regarding provisions and goods, While people need him until the day of their death.
مهتری اینست در هر دو جهان	لاجرم او مهتر آمد این زمان
This is true mastery in both worlds, Inevitably, he has become the leader at this time.'
ای دل از خون می کن از جان جام ساز	خلق را نه دم ده و نه دام ساز
O heart, make wine from blood and a goblet from the soul, Do not deceive the people nor lay a trap for them.
چون ترا نانی و خلقانی بود	هر سر موی تو سلطانی بود
When you have just bread and old clothes, Every tip of your hair will be a king.
هر که او از دست خوکان نان خورد	هیچ شک نبود که خون جان خورد
Whoever eats bread from the hands of swine, There is no doubt that he drinks the blood of his own soul.
با سگان همسفرگی تا کی کنی	آفتابی ذرهگی تا کی کنی
How long will you share a table with dogs? You are a sun, how long will you act like a speck of dust?
زین بخیلان درگذر مردانه وار	خویشتن بر شمع زن پروانه وار
Pass by these misers manfully, Throw yourself into the candle like a moth.
گر کنی زین قوم قولنجی حذر	کی بود ز امساک ایشانت خبر
If you avoid these miserly people, How would you be aware of their stinginess?
خویش را پروانه کن وز پر مپرس	جان فشان و تن زن و دیگر مپرس
Make yourself a moth and do not ask about your wings, Sacrifice your soul, be silent, and ask no more.
شیرنر چون دید آتش نیست چیر	شیر پروانه بود پروانه شیر
When the male lion sees fire, he does not overcome it, The moth acts like a lion towards the fire.
تو قدم در شیر مردی نه تمام	تا کی از انعام این انعام عام
Step entirely into the path of heroic manhood, How long will you seek favors from these common beasts?
مرد دین شو محرم اسرار گرد	وز خیال فلسفی بیزار گرد
Become a man of religion and a confidant of secrets, And grow weary of philosophical fantasies.
نیست از شرع نبی هاشمی	دورتر از فلسفی یک آدمی
There is no human being further From the Sharia of the Hashemite Prophet than the philosopher.
شرع فرمان پیمبر کردنست	فلسفی را خاک بر سر کردنست
The Sharia is obeying the Prophet's command, For the philosopher, it is putting dirt on his own head.
فلسفی را شیوه زردشت دان	فلسفه با شرع پشتاپشت دان
Consider the philosopher's way to be like Zoroaster's, Consider philosophy and Sharia to be back-to-back.
فلسفی را عقل کل می بس بود	عقل ما را امر قل می بس بود
For the philosopher, the Universal Intellect is sufficient, For our intellect, the command 'Say' is sufficient.
در حقیقت صد جهان عقل کل	گم شود از هیبت یک امر قل
In truth, a hundred worlds of the Universal Intellect Are lost in the awe of a single command of 'Say'.
عقل را گر امر ندهد زندگی	کی تواند کرد عقلی بندگی
If the command does not give life to the intellect, How can any intellect perform servitude?
رهبر عقلت از آن سست آمدست	کو بنفس خویش خود رست آمدست
The guide of your intellect is weak because It has grown from its own self.
عین عقل خویش را کن محو امر	تا نگردد عین عقلت محو خمر
Annihilate the essence of your intellect in the command, So that the essence of your intellect does not become annihilated by wine.
عقل اگر از خمر ناپیدا شود	کی بسر امر قل بینا شود
If the intellect disappears because of wine, How will it ever see the command 'Say'?
عقل را قل باید و امر خدای	تا شود هم رهبر و هم رهنمای
The intellect needs 'Say' and the command of God, So that He becomes both the leader and the guide.
عقل اگر جزو و اگر کل ماندت	عین عقلت بفکنی قل ماندت
Whether your intellect remains partial or universal, If you discard the essence of your intellect, only 'Say' remains for you.
عین عقلت چون زقل افتاد راست	عقل اگر سر پیچد از قل این خطاست
Since the essence of your intellect has fallen into alignment through 'Say', If the intellect turns its head away from 'Say', this is an error.
علم عقل تو بفرمان رفتنست	نه بعقل فرد حیران رفتنست
The knowledge of your intellect is to walk by command, Not to walk bewildered by individual intellect.
علم جز بهر حیات حق مخوان	وز شفاخواندن نجات خود مدان
Do not study knowledge except for the life of Truth, And do not consider your salvation to come from reading Avicenna's 'Shifa'.
علم دین فقه است و تفسیر و حدیث	هرکه خواند غیر این گردد خبیث
The knowledge of religion is jurisprudence, exegesis, and Hadith, Whoever studies other than this becomes wicked.
مرد دین صوفیست و مقری و فقیه	گرنه این خوانی منت خوانم سفیه
The man of religion is the Sufi, the reciter, and the jurist, If you are not called these, I will call you a fool.
این سه علم پاک را مغز نجات	حسن اخلاقست و تبدیل صفات
The core of salvation for these three pure sciences Is good character and the transformation of attributes.
این سه علمست اصل و این سه منبع است	هرچه بگذشتی ازین لاینفع است
These three sciences are the root, and these three are the source, Whatever goes beyond this is useless.
این سخن حقا که از تهدید نیست	این ز دیده میرود تقلید نیست
This speech, truly, is not out of a threat, This flows from vision, it is not blind imitation.
من درین هر علم بوئی برده ام	پیش هر رنگی رکوئی برده ام
I have caught a scent in every one of these sciences, I have bowed down before every color.
چون بدانستم که دین اینست و بس	هیچ نیست آنها یقین اینست و بس
When I realized that religion is this and nothing else, Those other things are nothing; certainty is this and nothing else.
ترک کردم اینهمه تا سوختند	تا از آن ترکم کلاهی دوختند
I abandoned all of them until they burned away, So that from that abandonment, they sewed a hat for me.
آسمان با ترک زر پشت دوتاه	در کبودی شد ز سوک این کلاه
The sky, with its golden helmet and bent back, Turned blue in mourning for this hat.
این کلاه بی سرانست ای پسر	گر دهندت با تو مینازی بسر
This is the hat of the headless ones, O boy, If they give it to you, you will boast about having a head.
گر کلاه فقر خواهی سر ببر	وز خود و هر دو جهان یکسر ببر
If you want the hat of poverty, cut off your head, And cut yourself off completely from yourself and both worlds.
این سخن دانم که طامات آیدت	ترهائی پر خرافات آیدت
I know this speech will seem like nonsense to you, It will seem like trifles full of superstitions to you.
کی بود یارای آن خفاش را	کو به بیند آفتاب فاش را
When would that bat have the power To look at the manifest sun?
عقل را در شرع باز و پاک باز	بعد از آن در شوق حق شو بی مجاز
Lose your intellect completely in the Sharia, After that, enter the yearning for the Truth without metaphor.
تاچو عقل و شرع و شوق آید پدید	آنچه میجوئی بذوق آید پدید
So that when intellect, Sharia, and yearning become manifest, What you seek will appear through spiritual taste.
چل مقامت پیش خواهد آمدن	جمله هم درخویش خواهد آمدن
Forty stations will come before you, All of them will come within yourself.
این چله چون در طریقت داشتی	با حقیقت کرده آمد آشتی
When you have kept this forty-day retreat in the spiritual path, You will have made peace with the Truth.
چون بجوئی خویش را در چل مقام	جمله در آخر تو باشی والسلام
When you seek yourself in the forty stations, In the end, you will be everything, and peace.

Updated 2026-08-30

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