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دفتر دوم - بخش ۸۹ - قصهٔ جوحی و آن کودک کی پیش جنازهٔ پدر خویش نوحه می‌کرد / Book Two - Section 89 - The Story of Juhi and That Child Who Was Wailing Before the Coffin of His Father

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کودکی در پیش تابوت پدر	زار می نالید و بر می کوفت سر
A child before his father's coffin was wailing bitterly and beating his head: O father, where at last are they taking you, to bring you under the earth?
کای پدر آخر کجاات می برند	تا تو را در زیر خاکی آورند
They are taking you to a cramped and distressing house, with no carpet in it and no mat; no lamp at night and no bread by day, no smell of food in it and no trace of any.
می برندت خانه ای تنگ و زحیر	نی درو قالی و نه در وی حصیر
Its door is not in good repair, nor is there a way onto the roof; there is no neighbor there to give refuge.
نی چراغی در شب و نه روز نان	نه درو بوی طعام و نه نشان
Your eye, which was a place people kissed, how will it be in that blind, dark house?
نی درش معمور نی بر بام راه	نی یکی همسایه کو باشد پناه
A house without protection, a narrow place, where neither face nor color remains.
چشم تو که بوسه گاه خلق بود	چون شود در خانهٔ کور و کبود
In this manner he was listing the house's attributes and pouring bloody tears from both eyes.
خانهٔ بی زینهار و جای تنگ	که درو نه روی می ماند نه رنگ
Juhi said to his father: O honored one, by God, they are taking this man to our house.
زین نسق اوصاف خانه می شمرد	وز دو دیده اشک خونین می فشرد
Juhi's father said: Do not be foolish.
گفت جوحی با پدر ای ارجمند	والله این را خانهٔ ما می برند
He said: Father, listen to the signs.
گفت جوحی را پدر ابله مشو	گفت ای بابا نشانیها شنو
These signs that he gave one by one belong to our house, without doubt or uncertainty: no mat, no lamp, no food, no well-kept door, no courtyard, and no roof.
این نشانیها که گفت او یک بیک	خانهٔ ما راست بی تردید و شک
They carry a hundred signs of this kind upon themselves, but when do the rebellious ever see them?
نه حصیر و نه چراغ و نه طعام	نه درش معمور و نه صحن و نه بام
The house of the heart that remains without light from the ray of the sun of divine majesty is cramped and dark like the soul of a Jew, deprived of the taste of the loving King.
زین نمط دارند بر خود صد نشان	لیک کی بینند آن را طاغیان
Into that heart no sunlight has shone; there is no spacious expanse and no opening of a door.
خانهٔ آن دل که ماند بی ضیا	از شعاع آفتاب کبریا
A grave is better for you than such a heart; at last rise above the grave of your own heart.
تنگ و تاریکست چون جان جهود	بی نوا از ذوق سلطان ودود
You are alive and born of the Living, O lively one; does this narrow grave not stop your breath?
نه در آن دل تافت نور آفتاب	نه گشاد عرصه و نه فتح باب
You are the Joseph of the age and the sun of heaven; rise from this well and prison and show your face.
گور خوشتر از چنین دل مر تو را	آخر از گور دل خود برتر آ
Jonah was ripened in the fish's belly; for the sincere one, glorification is not harmful.
زنده ای و زنده زاد ای شوخ و شنگ	دم نمی گیرد تو را زین گور تنگ
Had he not been glorifying in the belly of the fish, his confinement and prison would have lasted until Resurrection.
یوسف وقتی و خورشید سما	زین چه و زندان بر آ و رو نما
Through glorification he escaped from the fish's body.
یونست در بطن ماهی پخته شد	مخلصش را نیست از تسبیح بد
What is glorification?
گر نبودی او مسبح بطن نون	حبس و زندانش بدی تا یبعثون
The sign of the Day of Alast.
او بتسبیح از تن ماهی بجست	چیست تسبیح آیت روز الست
If you have forgotten that glorification of the soul, listen to these glorifications of the fish.
گر فراموشت شد آن تسبیح جان	بشنو این تسبیحهای ماهیان
Whoever has seen Allah belongs to Allah; whoever has seen that ocean is that fish.
هر که دید الله را اللهیست	هر که دید آن بحر را آن ماهیست
This world is the sea, the body the fish, and the spirit is Jonah, veiled from the morning light.
این جهان دریاست و تن ماهی و روح	یونس محجوب از نور صبوح
If it glorifies, it is freed from the fish; otherwise it is digested in it and disappears.
گر مسبح باشد از ماهی رهید	ورنه در وی هضم گشت و ناپدید
The fish of the soul are abundant in this sea; you do not see them because you are blind, wretched one.
ماهیان جان درین دریا پرند	تو نمی بینی که کوری ای نژند
Those fish strike themselves against you; open your eyes so that you may see them plainly.
بر تو خود را می زنند آن ماهیان	چشم بگشا تا ببینیشان عیان
If you do not see the fish visibly, your ear has at least heard their glorification.
ماهیان را گر نمی بینی پدید	گوش تو تسبیحشان آخر شنید
The soul's patience is your glorification; be patient, for that is the true glorification.
صبر کردن جان تسبیحات تست	صبر کن کانست تسبیح درست
No glorification has that rank: be patient; patience is the key to relief.
هیچ تسبیحی ندارد آن درج	صبر کن الصبر مفتاح الفرج
Patience is like the bridge of Sirat, with paradise on the far side; with every beauty there is an ugly nurse.
صبر چون پول صراط آن سو بهشت	هست با هر خوب یک لالای زشت
As long as you flee from the nurse, there is no union, for the nurse is not separate from the beloved.
تا ز لالا می گریزی وصل نیست	زانک لالا را ز شاهد فصل نیست
What do you know of the taste of patience, O glass-hearted one, especially patience for the sake of that Chigil beauty?
تو چه دانی ذوق صبر ای شیشه دل	خاصه صبر از بهر آن نقش چگل
A man takes delight in battle, charge, and attack; the effeminate man takes delight in the male organ.
مرد را ذوق از غزا و کر و فر	مر مخنث را بود ذوق از ذکر
Nothing but that organ is his religion and his remembrance; his thought carries him downward.
جز ذکر نه دین او و ذکر او	سوی اسفل برد او را فکر او
If he rises to the heavens, do not fear him, for he has learned his lesson in love of the low.
گر برآید تا فلک از وی مترس	کو به عشق سفل آموزید درس
He drives his horse downward, though he rings his bell toward the high.
او به سوی سفل می راند فرس	گرچه سوی علو جنباند جرس
Why fear the banners of beggars?
از علمهای گدایان ترس چیست	کان علمها لقمهٔ نان را رهیست
Those banners are servants of a morsel of bread.

Updated 2026-08-30

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