1Cademy - دفتر اول - بخش ۲۳ - در بیان آنک این اختلافات در صورت روش است نی در حقیقت راه / Book One - Section 23 - In Explanation That These Differences Are in the Form of the Method, Not in the Truth of the Path

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دفتر اول - بخش ۲۲ - تخلیط وزیر در احکام انجیل / Book One - Section 22 - The Vizier's Falsification in the Precepts of the Gospel

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دفتر اول - بخش ۲۳ - در بیان آنک این اختلافات در صورت روش است نی در حقیقت راه / Book One - Section 23 - In Explanation That These Differences Are in the Form of the Method, Not in the Truth of the Path

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او ز یک رنگی عیسی بو نداشت	وز مزاج خم عیسی خو نداشت
He had no scent of Jesus's one-coloredness, Nor any disposition from the temperament of Jesus's vat.
جامهٔ صد رنگ از آن خم صفا	ساده و یک رنگ گشتی چون صبا
A garment of a hundred colors, from that vat of purity, Would become simple and one-colored, like the morning breeze.
نیست یک رنگی کزو خیزد ملال	بل مثال ماهی و آب زلال
This is not a one-coloredness from which boredom arises, But rather like fish and clear water.
گرچه در خشکی هزاران رنگهاست	ماهیان را با یبوست جنگهاست
Though on dry land there are thousands of colors, Fish are at war with dryness.
کیست ماهی چیست دریا در مثل	تا بدان ماند ملک عز و جل
What is the fish, what is the sea in this comparison, That the King, Mighty and Glorious, should be likened to them?
صد هزاران بحر و ماهی در وجود	سجده آرد پیش آن اکرام و جود
Hundreds of thousands of seas and fish in existence Bow down before that nobility and bounty.
چند باران عطا باران شده	تا بدان آن بحر در افشان شده
How many rains of giving have rained So that that sea became pearl-scattering.
چند خورشید کرم افروخته	تا که ابر و بحر جود آموخته
How many suns of generosity have shone So that cloud and sea learned generosity.
پرتو دانش زده بر خاک و طین	تا که شد دانه پذیرنده زمین
The radiance of knowledge struck dust and clay, So that the earth became receptive to seed.
خاک امین و هر چه در وی کاشتی	بی خیانت جنس آن برداشتی
The earth is trustworthy: whatever you sow in it, You harvest that same kind without betrayal.
این امانت زان امانت یافتست	کآفتاب عدل بر وی تافتست
This trustworthiness it received from that Trust, For the sun of justice shone upon it.
تا نشان حق نیارد نوبهار	خاک سرها را نکرده آشکار
Until spring brings the sign of the Truth, The earth does not reveal its secrets.
آن جوادی که جمادی را بداد	این خبرها وین امانت وین سداد
That munificence which gave to inanimate matter These tidings, this trustworthiness, and this rectitude,
مر جمادی را کند فضلش خبیر	عاقلان را کرده قهر او ضریر
By His grace makes the inanimate knowing; By His wrath He has made the wise blind.
جان و دل را طاقت آن جوش نیست	با که گویم در جهان یک گوش نیست
Soul and heart cannot bear that ferment; To whom shall I speak? In the world there is not one ear.
هر کجا گوشی بد از وی چشم گشت	هر کجا سنگی بد از وی یشم گشت
Wherever there was an ear, through Him it became an eye; Wherever there was a stone, through Him it became jade.
کیمیاسازست چه بود کیمیا	معجزه بخش است چه بود سیمیا
He is the maker of alchemy; what, then, is alchemy? He is the giver of miracles; what, then, is magic?
این ثنا گفتن ز من ترک ثناست	کین دلیل هستی و هستی خطاست
My speaking this praise is a leaving-off of praise, For it proves my self-existence, and self-existence is error.
پیش هست او بباید نیست بود	چیست هستی پیش او کور و کبود
Before His Being, one must be non-being; What is existence before Him? Blind and bruised-dark.
گر نبودی کور زو بگداختی	گرمی خورشید را بشناختی
If it were not blind, it would melt from Him And recognize the warmth of the sun.
ور نبودی او کبود از تعزیت	کی فسردی همچو یخ این ناحیت
And if it were not darkened by mourning, How would this region have frozen like ice?