Poem

دفتر پنجم - بخش ۶۳ - بیان آنک عطای حق و قدرت موقوف قابلیت نیست هم‌چون داد خلقان کی آن را قابلیت باید زیرا عطا قدیم است و قابلیت حادث عطا صفت حق است و قابلیت صفت مخلوق و قدیم موقوف حادث نباشد و اگر نه حدوث محال باشد / Book Five - Section 63 - Explanation that the gift and power of God are not dependent on receptivity, unlike the gifts of created beings which require receptivity, because the gift is eternal and receptivity is temporal; the gift is an attribute of God and receptivity is an attribute of the creature, and the eternal is not dependent on the temporal, otherwise the temporal occurrence would be impossible

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چاره آن دل عطای مبدلیست
داد او را قابلیت شرط نیست

بلک شرط قابلیت داد اوست
داد لب و قابلیت هست پوست

اینک موسی را عصا ثعبان شود
هم چو خورشیدی کفش رخشان شود

صد هزاران معجزات انبیا
کآن نگنجد در ضمیر و عقل ما

نیست از اسباب تصریف خداست
نیستها را قابلیت از کجاست

قابلی گر شرط فعل حق بدی
هیچ معدومی به هستی نامدی

سنتی بنهاد و اسباب و طرق
طالبان را زیر این ازرق تتق

بیشتر احوال بر سنت رود
گاه قدرت خارق سنت شود

سنت و عادت نهاده با مزه
باز کرده خرق عادت معجزه

بی سبب گر عز به ما موصول نیست
قدرت از عزل سبب معزول نیست

ای گرفتار سبب بیرون مپر
لیک عزل آن مسبب ظن مبر

هرچه خواهد آن مسبب آورد
قدرت مطلق سببها بردرد

لیک اغلب بر سبب راند نفاد
تا بداند طالبی جستن مراد

چون سبب نبود چه ره جوید مرید
پس سبب در راه می باید بدید

این سببها بر نظرها پرده هاست
که نه هر دیدار صنعش را سزاست

دیده ای باید سبب سوراخ کن
تا حجب را برکند از بیخ و بن

تا مسبب بیند اندر لامکان
هرزه داند جهد و اکساب و دکان

از مسبب می رسد هر خیر و شر
نیست اسباب و وسایط ای پدر

جز خیالی منعقد بر شاه راه
تا بماند دور غفلت چند گاه

English translation

The remedy for that heart is a transforming bounty; Receptivity is not a condition for His gift. Rather, His gift is the condition for receptivity; The gift is the kernel, and receptivity is the husk. Lo, the staff of Moses becomes a serpent, And his hand shines bright like the sun. A hundred thousand miracles of the prophets That cannot be contained in our mind and intellect, Are not from secondary causes, they are the direct action of God. Whence comes receptivity to non-existent things? If receptivity were a condition for God's action, No non-existent thing would have come into being. He established a custom, causes, and paths For seekers under this blue canopy. Most affairs proceed according to custom, But at times, Divine Power breaks through the custom. He made custom and habit sweet and pleasant, And then opened miracles as a breach of habit. If without cause honor is not joined to us, Divine Power is not deposed by the dismissal of causes. O you who are caught in causes, do not fly out of bounds, But do not suspect the dismissal of the Causer of causes. Whatever He wills, that Causer of causes will bring; Absolute Power will tear causes to pieces. But He mostly carries out His decree through causes, So that a seeker may know how to seek their goal. When there is no cause, what way can the disciple seek? Therefore, causes must be seen on the path. These causes are veils before the eyes, For not every eye is worthy of beholding His handiwork. An eye is needed that can pierce through causes, To tear up the veils from their root and foundation, To see the Causer of causes in the Placeless, And deem effort, earnings, and the shop as futile. From the Causer of causes comes every good and evil; There are no secondary causes or intermediaries, O father, Save a phantom congealed upon the highway So that the period of heedlessness may endure for a while.

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Updated 2026-06-13

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