Translations
Masnavi-ye Maʿnavi by Rumi, in translations by Reynold A. Nicholson
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How the prophets answered their sneers and uttered parables unto them.
بخش 125جواب گفتن انبیا طعن ایشان را و مثل زدن ایشان را
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[Explaining that it is not seemly for every one to adduce parables, especially concerning Divine actions.]
بخش 126بیان آنک هر کس را نرسد مثل آوردن خاصه در کار الهی
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Story of the thief who was asked, “What are you doing at the bottom of this wall at midnight?” and replied, “I am beating a drum.”
بخش 128حکایت آن دزد کی پرسیدند چه میکنی نیمشب در بن این دیوار گفت دهل میزنم
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The answer to the parable which the unbelievers related concerning the hare's being sent as ambassador with a message to the elephant from the Moon in heaven.
بخش 129جواب آن مثل کی منکران گفتند از رسالت خرگوش پیغام به پیل از ماه آسمان
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The meaning of prudence, and a parable of the prudent man.
بخش 130معنی حزم و مثال مرد حازم
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The banefulness of the action of the bird that abandons prudence from (motives of) greed and vain desire.
بخش 131وخامت کار آن مرغ کی ترک حزم کرد از حرص و هوا
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Story of the vow made by the dogs every winter that when next summer comes they will build a house for the winter.
بخش 132حکایت نذر کردن سگان هر زمستان کی این تابستان چون بیاید خانه سازیم از بهر زمستان را
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How the unbelievers stopped the prophets, on whom be peace, from giving admonition and brought forward Necessitarian arguments.
بخش 133منع کردن انبیا را از نصیحت کردن و حجت آوردن جبریانه
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The answer of the prophets, on whom be peace, to the Necessitarians.
بخش 134جواب انبیا علیهم السلام مر جبریان را
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How the infidels repeated the Necessitarian arguments.
بخش 135مکرر کردن کافران حجتهای جبریانه را
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How the prophets, on whom be peace, answered them again.
بخش 136باز جواب انبیا علیهم السلام ایشان را
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How the people (of Sabá) repeated their resistance to the (prophets') hope (of converting them and set themselves) against the prophets, on whom be peace.
بخش 137مکرر کردن قوم اعتراض ترجیه بر انبیا علیهمالسلام
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How the prophets, on whom be peace, answered them once more.
بخش 138باز جواب انبیا علیهم السلام
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The wisdom of (God's) having created Hell in the world hereafter and the prison of (tribulation in) the present world to the end that they may be places of worship for the arrogant (evil-doers): “Come ye willingly or unwillingly.”
بخش 139حکمت آفریدن دوزخ آن جهان و زندان این جهان تا معبد متکبّران باشد کی ائتیا طوعا او کرها
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Explaining how God most High has made the bodily form of kings a means of subduing the insolent (sinners) who are not subject to God, just as Moses, on whom be peace, built the Báb-i Saghír in the wall of Jerusalem in order that the insolent (and wicked) men among the Israelites might bow low when they entered in, (according to the text), “Enter the gate, prostrating yourselves, and say ‘hittatun.’”
بخش 140بیان آنک حق تعالی صورت ملوک را سبب مسخر کردن جباران کی مسخر حق نباشند ساخته است چنانک موسی علیه السلام باب صغیر ساخت بر ربض قدس جهت رکوع جباران بنی اسرائیل وقت در آمدن کی ادخلوا الباب سجدا و قولوا حطة
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Story of the Súfí's being enamoured of the empty food-wallet.
بخش 141قصه عشق صوفی بر سفرهٔ تهی
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How Jacob, on whom be peace, was privileged to taste the cup of God from the face of Joseph, and inhale the scent of God from the scent of Joseph; and the exclusion of his (Joseph's) brethren and others from both these (privileges).
بخش 142مخصوص بودن یعقوب علیه السلام به چشیدن جام حق از روی یوسف و کشیدن بوی حق از بوی یوسف و حرمان برادران و غیر هم ازین هر دو
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Story of the Amír and his slave who was very fond of the ritual prayer and had a great joy in the ritual prayer and in communing with God.
بخش 143حکایت امیر و غلامش کی نماز باره بود وانس عظیم داشت در نماز و مناجات با حق
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How the prophets lost hope of being accepted and approved by the unbelievers, as God hath said: “Until, when the (Divine) Messengers despaired…”
بخش 144نومید شدن انبیا از قبول و پذیرای منکران قوله حتی اذا استیاس الرسل
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Explaining how the faith of the conventional (worldly) man consists in fear and hope.
بخش 145بیان آنک ایمان مقلد خوفست و رجا
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Setting forth how the Prophet, on whom be peace, said, “Verily, God most High hath friends who are concealed.”
بخش 146بیان آنک رسول علیه السلام فرمود ان لله تعالی اولیاء اخفیاء
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The story of Anas, may God be pleased with him: how he cast a napkin into a fiery oven, and it was not burnt.
بخش 147حکایت مندیل در تنور پر آتش انداختن انس رضی الله عنه و ناسوختن
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Story of the Prophet's, on whom be peace, coming to the aid of a caravan of Arabs who had been brought to sore straits by thirst and lack of water and had set their minds on death: (both) the camels and the people (of the caravan) had let their tongues drop out (of their mouths from exhaustion).
بخش 148قصهٔ فریاد رسیدن رسول علیه السلام کاروان عرب را کی از تشنگی و بیآبی در مانده بودند و دل بر مرگ نهاده شتران و خلق زبان برون انداخته
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How he (the Prophet) miraculously filled the slave's water-skin with water from the Unseen World and made the face of that negro slave white by permission of God most High.
بخش 149مشک آن غلام ازغیب پر آب کردن بمعجزه و آن غلام سیاه را سپیدرو کردن باذن الله تعالی
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How the master saw his slave white and did not recognise him and said, “Thou hast killed my slave: the murder hath found thee out, and God hath thrown thee into my hands.”
بخش 150دیدن خواجه غلام خود را سپید و ناشناختن کی اوست و گفتن کی غلام مرا تو کشتهای خونت گرفت و خدا ترا به دست من انداخت
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Explaining that whatsoever God most High bestowed and created— the heavens and the earths and the substances and the accidents— He created all (this) at the demand of need, and that one must make one's self in need of a thing, so that He may bestow it; for “… Or He who answers the sorely distressed when he calls unto Him?” Sore distress is the evidence of worthiness (to receive the Divine bounty).
بخش 151بیان آنک حق تعالی هرچه داد و آفرید از سماوات و ارضین و اعیان و اعراض همه به استدعاء حاجت آفرید؛ خود را محتاج چیزی باید کردن تا بدهد؛ کی «امن یجیب المضطر اذا دعاه»؛ اضطرار، گواه استحقاق است
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How the unbelieving woman came to Mustafá (Mohammed), on whom be peace, with a sucking babe, and how it spoke, like Jesus, of the miracles of the Prophet, God bless and save him!
بخش 152آمدن آن زن کافر با طفل شیرخواره به نزدیک مصطفی علیه السلام و ناطق شدن عیسیوار به معجزات رسول صلی الله علیه و سلم
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How an eagle seized the boot of the Prophet, on whom be peace, and carried it into the air and turned it upside down, and how a black serpent dropped down from the boot.
بخش 153ربودن عقاب موزهٔ مصطفی علیه السلام و بردن بر هوا و نگون کردن و از موزه مار سیاه فرو افتادن
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The right way of taking a lesson from this story and knowing with certainty that “verily, together with hardship there is ease.”
بخش 154وجه عبرت گرفتن ازین حکایت و یقین دانستن کی ان مع العسر یسرا
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How a certain man demanded of Moses (that he should teach him) the language of the beasts and birds.
بخش 155استدعاء آن مرد از موسی زبان بهایم با طیور
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How Revelation came from God most High to Moses that he should teach him the thing demanded by him, or part of it.
بخش 156وحی آمدن از حق تعالی به موسی کی بیاموزش چیزی کی استدعا کند یا بعضی از آن
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How that seeker was content to be taught the language of domestic fowls and dogs, and how Moses, on whom be peace; complied with his request.
بخش 157قانع شدن آن طالب به تعلیم زبان مرغ خانگی و سگ و اجابت موسی علیه السلام
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The cock's answer to the dog.
بخش 158جواب خروس سگ را
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[How the cock became abashed before the dog on account of being false in those three promises.]
بخش 159خجل گشتن خروس پیش سگ به سبب دروغ شدن در آن سه وعده
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How the cock foretold the death of the Khwája.
بخش 160خبر کردن خروس از مرگ خواجه
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How that person ran to Moses for protection when he heard from the cock the announcement of his death.
بخش 161دویدن آن شخص به سوی موسی به زنهار چون از خروس خبر مرگ خود شنید
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How Moses prayed for that person, that he might depart from the world (die) in the Faith.
بخش 162دعاکردن موسی آن شخص را تا بایمان رود از دنیا
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How God most High answered favourably the prayer of Moses, on whom be peace.
بخش 163اجابت کردن حق تعالی دعای موسی را علیه السلام
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Story of the woman whose children never lived (long), and how, when she made lamentation (to God), the answer came—“That is instead of thy (unpractised) ascetic discipline and is for thee in lieu of the self-mortification of those who mortify themselves.”
بخش 164حکایت آن زنی کی فرزندش نمیزیست بنالید جواب آمد کی آن عوض ریاضت تست و به جای جهاد مجاهدانست ترا
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How Hamza, may God be well-pleased with him, came to battle without a coat of mail.
بخش 165در آمدن حمزه رضی الله عنه در جنگ بی زره
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The reply of Hamza to the people.
بخش 166جواب حمزه مر خلق را
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The means of preventing one's self from being swindled in sale and purchase.
بخش 167حیله دفع مغبون شدن در بیع و شرا
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How Bilál, may God be well-pleased with him, died rejoicing.
بخش 168وفات یافتن بلال رضی الله عنه با شادی
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The (Divine) wisdom in ruining the body by death.
بخش 169حکمت ویران شدن تن به مرگ
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Comparison of this world, which is wide in appearance and narrow in reality, (to a bathroom), and comparison (of the next world) to sleep, which is the (means of) release from this narrowness.
بخش 170تشبیه دنیا کی بظاهر فراخست و بمعنی تنگ و تشبیه خواب کی خلاص است ازین تنگی
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Setting forth that whatever is (denoted by the terms) heedlessness and anxiety and indolence and darkness is all (derived) from the body, which belongs to the earth and the lower world.
بخش 171بیان آنک هرچه غفلت و غم و کاهلی و تاریکیست همه از تن است کی ارضی است و سفلی
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Comparison between Statute and analogy.
بخش 172تشبیه نص با قیاس
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The rules to be observed by listeners and disciples at the emanation of wisdom from the tongue of the Shaykh.
بخش 173آداب المستمعین والمریدین عند فیض الحکمة من لسان الشیخ
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How every animal knows the smell of its enemy and takes precaution. The folly and perdition of him that is the enemy of that One against whom precaution is impossible, and flight is impossible, and resistance is impossible.
بخش 174شناختن هر حیوانی بوی عدو خود را و حذر کردن و بطالت و خسارت آنکس کی عدو کسی بود کی ازو حذر ممکن نیست و فرار ممکن نی و مقابله ممکن نی
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The difference between knowing a thing by comparison and convention and knowing the quiddity of that thing.
بخش 175فرق میان دانستن چیزی به مثال و تقلید و میان دانستن ماهیت آن چیز
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