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دفتر سوم - بخش ۱۶۹ - حکمت ویران شدن تن به مرگ / Book Three - Section 169 - The Wisdom of the Ruin of the Body Through Death

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من چو آدم بودم اول حبس کربپر شد اکنون نسل جانم شرق و غرب
I was like Adam at first, imprisoned in anguish,
Now the progeny of my soul has filled East and West.
من گدا بودم درین خانه چو چاهشاه گشتم قصر باید بهر شاه
I was a beggar in this house, like a well,
I have become a king — a palace is needed for a king.
قصرها خود مر شهان را مانسستمرده را خانه و مکان گوری بسست
Palaces are indeed fitting for kings,
For the dead, a house and dwelling — a grave suffices.
انبیا را تنگ آمد این جهانچون شهان رفتند اندر لامکان
This world became narrow for the prophets,
As kings they went into the Placeless (lā-makān).
مردگان را این جهان بنمود فرظاهرش زفت و به معنی تنگ بر
This world displayed its splendor to the dead,
Outwardly vast, yet in meaning confining.
گر نبودی تنگ این افغان ز چیستچون دو تا شد هر که در وی بیش زیست
If it were not narrow, whence this lamentation?
How bent double is everyone who lived too long within it.
در زمان خواب چون آزاد شدزان مکان بنگر که جان چون شاد شد
In the time of sleep, when the soul becomes free,
Look from that vantage how the soul rejoiced.
ظالم از ظلم طبیعت باز رستمرد زندانی ز فکر حبس جست
The oppressor found relief from nature's tyranny,
The imprisoned man escaped the thought of captivity.
این زمین و آسمان بس فراخسخت تنگ آمد به هنگام مناخ
This earth and sky, so vast,
Became very narrow at the time of halting (manākh).
جسم بند آمد فراخ وسخت تنگخندهٔ او گریه فخرش جمله ننگ
The body became a bond — spacious yet utterly tight,
Its laughter is weeping, its pride entirely shame.

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