Section
دفتر چهارم
Poems
[The saying of the Prophet, on whom be peace, “Whosoever shall bring me the glad news of the expiration of (the month) Safar, I will give him the glad news of (his being destined to enter) Paradise.”]
بخش 101قوله علیه السلام من بشرنی بخروج صفر بشرته بالجنة
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12 coupletsHow Pharaoh took counsel with Ésiya (Ásiya) as to believing in Moses, on whom be peace.
بخش 102مشورت کردن فرعون با ایسیه در ایمان آوردن به موسی علیهالسلام
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31 coupletsStory of the king's falcon and the decrepit old woman.
بخش 103قصهٔ باز پادشاه و کمپیر زن
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29 coupletsStory of the woman whose child crawled to the top of the water-spout and was in danger of falling; (whereupon) she besought help of ‘Alí Murtadá, may God ennoble his person.
بخش 104قصهٔ آن زن کی طفل او بر سر ناودان غیژید و خطر افتادن بود و از علی کرمالله وجهه چاره جست
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65 coupletsHow Pharaoh took counsel with ha vizier, Hámán, as to believing in Moses, on whom be peace.
بخش 105مشورت کردن فرعون با وزیرش هامان در ایمان آوردن به موسی علیهالسلام
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14 coupletsShowing the falsity of Hámán’s speech— the curse (of God) be upon him!
بخش 106تزییف سخن هامان علیه اللعنة
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37 coupletsHow Moses, on whom be peace, despaired of Pharaoh’s accepting the true faith, because the words of Hámán made an impression on Pharaoh’s heart.
بخش 107نومید شدن موسی علیهالسلام از ایمام فرعون به تاثیر کردن سخن هامان در دل فرعون
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5 coupletsHow the Amírs of the Arabs wrangled with Mustafá (Mohammed), on whom be peace, saying, “Share the kingdom with us, in order that there may be no contention”; and how Mustafá, on whom be peace, answered and said, “I am commanded (by God) in respect of this Amírate”; and the arguments on both sides.
بخش 108منازعت امیران عرب با مصطفی علیهالسلام کی ملک را مقاسمت کن با ما تا نزاعی نباشد و جواب فرمودن مصطفی علیهالسلام کی من مامورم درین امارت و بحث ایشان از طرفین
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32 coupletsExplaining that one who knows the power of God will not ask, “Where are Paradise and Hell?”
بخش 109در بیان آنک شناسای قدرت حق نپرسد کی بهشت و دوزخ کجاست
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22 coupletsReply to the materialist who disbelieves in the Deity and says that the world is eternal.
بخش 110جواب دهری کی منکر الوهیت است و عالم را قدیم میگوید
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48 coupletsCommentary on the Verse, “And We did not create the heavens and the earth and what is between them save with real ground”: (i.e.) “I did not create them for the sake of just this which ye see; nay, but for the sake of the essential meaning and everlasting providence which ye see not.”
بخش 111تفسیر این آیت کی و ما خلقنا السموات والارض و ما بینهما الا بالحق نیافریدمشان بهر همین کی شما میبینید بلک بهر معنی و حکمت باقیه کی شما نمیبینید آن را
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40 coupletsHow God made a revelation to Moses, on whom be peace, saying, “O Moses, I who am the exalted Creator love thee.”
بخش 112وحی کردن حق به موسی علیهالسلام کی ای موسی من کی خالقم تعالی ترا دوست میدارم
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12 coupletsHow a king was enraged with his boon-companion, and an intercessor interceded on behalf of the object of (the king's) anger and begged the king (to pardon the offender); and how (when) the king accepted his intercession, the boon-companion resented the action of the intercessor and asked, “Why did you intercede?”
بخش 113خشم کردن پادشاه بر ندیم و شفاعت کردن شفیع آن مغضوب علیه را و از پادشاه درخواستن و پادشاه شفاعت او قبول کردن و رنجیدن ندیم از این شفیع کی چرا شفاعت کردی
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41 coupletsHow Khalíl (Abraham) answered Gabriel, on both of whom be peace, when he asked him, “Hast thou any need?”—“As regards need of thee, no!”
بخش 114گفتن خلیل مر جبرئیل را علیهماالسلام چون پرسیدش کی الک حاجة خلیل جوابش داد کی اما الیک فلا
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27 coupletsHow Moses, on whom be peace, besought the Lord, saying, “Thou didst create creatures and destroy them,” and how the answer came.
بخش 115مطالبه کردن موسی علیهالسلام حضرت را کی خَلَقتَ خَلقاً اَهلَکتَهُم و جواب آمدن
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29 coupletsExplaining that the animal spirit and the particular (discursive) reason and the imagination and the fancy may be compared to buttermilk, while the spirit, which is everlasting, is hidden in this buttermilk, like the butter.
بخش 116بیان آنک روح حیوانی و عقلِ جزوی و وهم و خیال بر مثال دوغند و روح کی باقیست درین دوغ همچون روغن پنهانست
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21 coupletsAnother parable on the same subject.
بخش 117مثال دیگر هم درین معنی
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34 coupletsStory of the prince to whom the true kingdom displayed itself, (so that the realities of) “on the Day when a man shall flee from his brother and his mother and his father” became the object of his immediate experience; (and he saw that) the kingdom of this earth-heap of the childish (is like the game) called “castle-taking,” (in which) the child that gains the victory mounts upon the earth-heap and says boastfully, “The castle belongs to me,” while the other children envy him; for (to play with) earth is the pastime of boys. When the prince was delivered from the bondage of colours, he said, “I say that these coloured pieces of earth (earthly gauds) are just the same vile earth; I do not call them gold and satin and brocade: I have been delivered from this brocade (aksún) and have gone to that which is simple (yaksún).” (God hath said), “And We bestowed wisdom upon him whilst he was yet a boy”; it needeth not the passing of (many) years for (any one to receive) the guidance of God: none speaks of the capacity to receive in (connexion with) the Power of Be, and it is.
بخش 118حکایت آن پادشاهزاده کی پادشاهی حقیقی به وی روی نمود یَوْمَ یَفِرُّ المَرْءُ مِنْ أَخیهِ وَ أُمِّهِ وَ أَبیهِ نقد وقت او شد پادشاهی این خاک تودهٔ کودک طبعان کی قلعه گیری نام کنند آن کودک کی چیره آید بر سر خاک توده برآید و لاف زندگی قلعه مراست کودکان دیگر بر وی رشک برند کی التُّرابُ رَبیعُ الصِّبْیانِ آن پادشاهزاده چو از قید رنگها برست گفت من این خاکهای رنگین را همان خاک دون میگویم زر و اطلس و اکسون نمیگویم من ازین اکسون رستم یکسون رفتم و آتیناه الحکم صبیا ارشاد حق را مرور سالها حاجت نیست در قدرت کن فیکون هیچ کس سخن قابلیت نگوید
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28 coupletsHow the king brought his son a bride for fear of his race coming to an end.
بخش 119عروس آوردن پادشاه فرزند خود را از خوف انقطاع نسل
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16 coupletsHow the king chose the daughter of a poor ascetic for his son and how the ladies of the harem raised objections and disdained the (proposed) alliance with the dervish.
بخش 120اختیار کردن پادشاه دختر درویش زاهدی را از جهت پسر و اعتراض کردن اهل حرم و ننگ داشتن ایشان از پیوندی درویش
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31 coupletsHow the king's prayer for the deliverance of his son from the witch of Kábul was granted.
بخش 121مستجاب شدن دعای پادشاه در خلاص پسرش از جادوی کابلی
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29 coupletsExplaining that the prince is Man, the vicegerent of God, and that his father is Adam, the chosen one, the vicegerent of God, he to whom the angels bowed in worship; and that the old hag of Kábul is the World which separated Man from his Father by sorcery, while the prophets and saints are (like) the physician who applied the remedy.
بخش 122در بیان آنک شهزاده آدمی بچه است خلیفهٔ خداست پدرش آدم صفی خلیفهٔ حق مسجود ملایک و آن کمپیر کابلی دنیاست کی آدمیبچه را از پدر ببرید به سحر و انبیا و اولیا آن طبیب تدارک کننده
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53 coupletsStory of the ascetic who, notwithstanding his destitution and numerous family, was rejoicing and laughing in a year of drought whilst the people were dying of hunger. They said to him, “What is the occasion for joy? It is an occasion for a hundred mournings.” “For me at any rate ’tis not (so),” he replied.
بخش 123حکایت آن زاهد کی در سال قحط شاد و خندان بود با مفلسی و بسیاری عیان و خلق میمردند از گرسنگی گفتندش چه هنگام شادیست کی هنگام صد تعزیت است گفت مرا باری نیست
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17 coupletsExplaining that the whole world is the form of Universal Reason, (and that) when by trespassing you act unjustly towards Universal Reason, in most cases the aspect of the world increases your vexation, just as when you show ill-feeling to your father the aspect of your father increases your vexation and you cannot (bear to) look on his face, though before that he will have been the light of your eye and the comfort of your soul.
بخش 124بیان آنک مجموع عالم صورت عقل کل است چون با عقل کل بهکژروی جفا کردی صورت عالم ترا غم فزاید اغلب احوال چنانک دل با پدر بد کردی صورت پدر غم فزاید ترا و نتوانی رویش را دیدن اگر چه پیش از آن نور دیده بوده باشد و راحت جان
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12 coupletsStory of the sons of ‘Uzayr, on whom be peace, who were making inquiries about their father from (one who really was) their father. “Yes,” he replied, “I have seen him: he is coming.” Some (of them) recognised him and became unconscious, (while) others did not recognise him and said, “He has only announced (our father's coming): what is this unconsciousness?”
بخش 125قصهٔ فرزندان عزیر علیهالسلام کی از پدر احوال پدر میپرسیدند میگفت آری دیدمش میآید بعضی شناختندش بیهوش شدند بعضی نشناختند میگفتند خود مژدهای داد این بیهوش شدن چیست
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29 coupletsCommentary on the Tradition, “Verily, I ask pardon of God seventy times every day.”
بخش 126تفسیر این حدیث کی ائنی لاستغفر الله فی کل یوم سبعین مرة
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11 coupletsExplaining that the particular (discursive) intellect does not see beyond the grave and, as regards all the rest, is subject to the authority of the saints and prophets.
بخش 127بیان آنک عقل جزوی تا بگور بیش نبیند در باقی مقلد اولیا و انبیاست
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37 coupletsExplaining (the Verse), “O ye that believe, do not put (yourselves) forward in the presence of God and His Apostle.” Since thou art not the Prophet, be one of the religious community; since thou art not the sovereign, be a subject.
بخش 128بیان آنک یا ایها الذین آمنوا لا تقدموا بین یدی الله و رسوله چون نبی نیستی ز امت باش چونک سلطان نهای رعیت باش پس رو خاموش باش از خود زحمتی و رایی متراش
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29 coupletsStory of the mule's complaining to the camel (and saying), “I often fall on my face when going along, while you seldom do so: why is this?” and the camel's answer to him.
بخش 129قصهٔ شکایت استر با شتر کی من بسیار در رو میافتم در راه رفتن تو کم در روی میآیی این چراست و جواب گفتن شتر او را
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30 coupletsHow the mule declared the replies of the camel to be true and acknowledged his (the camel's) superiority to himself and besought his aid and took refuge with him sincerely; and how the camel treated him with kindness and showed him the way and gave help in fatherly and kingly fashion.
بخش 130تصدیق کردن استر جوابهای شتر را و اقرار کردن بفضل او بر خود و ازو استعانت خواستن و بدو پناه گرفتن به صدق و نواختن شتر او را و ره نمودن و یاری دادن پدرانه و شاهانه
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24 coupletsHow the Egyptian entreated the Israelite, saying, “Of thine own intention fill a jug from the Nile and put it to my lips, that I may drink. (I beseech thee) by the right of friendship and brotherhood; for the jug which ye Israelites fill from the Nile for yourselves is pure water, while the jug which we Egyptians fill is pure blood.”
بخش 131لابه کردن قبطی سبطی را کی یک سبو به نیت خویش از نیل پر کن و بر لب من نه تا بخورم به حق دوستی و برادری کی سبو کی شما سبطیان بهر خود پر میکنید از نیل آب صاف است و سبوکی ما قبطیان پر میکنیم خون صاف است
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63 coupletsHow the Egyptian besought blessing and guidance from the Israelite, and how the Israelite prayed for the Egyptian and received a favourable answer to his prayer from the Most Gracious and Merciful (God).
بخش 132در خواستن قبطی دعای خیر و هدایت از سبطی و دعا کردن سبطی قبطی را به خیر و مستجاب شدن از اکرم الاکرمین و ارحم الراحمین
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50 coupletsStory of the lewd woman who said to her husband, “Those illusions appear to thee from the top of the pear-tree, for the top of that pear-tree causes the human eye to see such things: come down from the top of the pear-tree, that those illusions may vanish.” And if any one should say that what that man saw was not an illusion, the answer is that this (story) is a parable, not a (precise) similitude. In the (story regarded as a) parable this amount (of resemblance) is sufficient, for if he had not gone to the top of the peartree, he would never have seen those things, whether illusory or real.
بخش 133حکایت آن زن پلیدکار کی شوهر را گفت کی آن خیالات از سر امرودبُن مینماید ترا کی چنینها نماید چشم آدمی را سر آن امرودبن از سر امرودبن فرود آی تا آن خیالها برود و اگر کسی گوید کی آنچ آن مرد میدید خیال نبود و جواب این مثالیست نه مثل در مثال همین قدر بس بود کی اگر بر سر امرودبن نرفتی هرگز آنها ندیدی خواه خیال خواه حقیقت
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31 coupletsبخش 134باقی قصهٔ موسی علیهالسلام
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The diverse modes and stages of the nature of Man from the beginning.
بخش 135اطوار و منازل خلقت آدمی از ابتدا
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31 coupletsExplaining that the people of Hell are hungry and make lamentable entreaty to God, saying, “Cause our portions to be fat and let the provender reach us quickly, for we can endure no more.”
بخش 136بیان آنک خلق دوزخ گرسنگانند و نالانند به حق کی روزیهای ما را فربه گردان و زود زاد به ما رسان کی ما را صبر نماند
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43 coupletsHow Dhu ’l-Qarnayn went to Mount Qáf and made petition, saying, “O Mount Qáf, tell me of the majesty of the Attributes of God”; and how Mount Qáf said that the description of His majesty is ineffable, since (all) perceptions vanish before it; and how Dhu ’l-Qarnayn made humble supplication, saying, “Tell of His works that thou hast in mind and of which it is more easy for thee to speak.”
بخش 137رفتن ذوالقرنین به کوه قاف و درخواست کردن کی ای کوه قاف از عظمت صفت حق ما را بگو و گفتن کوه قاف کی صفت عظمت او در گفت نیاید کی پیش آنها ادراکها فدا شود و لابه کردن ذوالقرنین کی از صنایعش کی در خاطر داری و بر تو گفتن آن آسانتر بود بگوی
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10 coupletsAn ant, walking on a piece of paper, saw the pen writing and began to praise the pen. Another ant, which was more keen-sighted, said, “Praise the fingers, for I deem this accomplishment to proceed from them.” Another ant, more clear-sighted than either, said, “I praise the arm, for the fingers are a branch of the arm,” et cetera.
بخش 138موری بر کاغذ میرفت نبشتن قلم دید قلم را ستودن گرفت موری دیگر کی چشم تیزتر بود گفت ستایش انگشتان را کن کی آن هنر ازیشان میبینم موری دگر کی از هر دو چشم روشنتر بود گفت من بازو را ستایم کی انگشتان فرع بازواند الی آخره
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34 coupletsHow Gabriel, on whom be peace, showed himself to Mustafá (Mohammed), God bless and save him, in his own shape; and how, when one of his seven hundred wings became visible, it covered the horizon (on all sides), and the sun with all its radiance was veiled over.
بخش 139نمودن جبرئیل علیه السّلام خود را به مصطفی صلیالله علیه و سلّم به صورت خویش و از هفتصد پر او چون یک پر ظاهر شد افق را بگرفت و آفتاب محجوب شد با همهٔ شعاعش
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