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دفتر پنجم - بخش ۳۸ - قال النبی علیه‌السلام ارحموا ثلاثا عزیز قوم ذل و غنی قوم افتقر و عالما یلعب به الجهال / Book Five - Section 38 - The Prophet, Peace Be Upon Him, Said: Have Mercy on Three: A Mighty Person of a People Who is Humiliated, a Wealthy Person of a People Who is Impoverished, and a Scholar with Whom the Ignorant Play

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گفت پیغمبر که رحم آرید بر
جان من کان غنیا فافتقر

والذی کان عزیزا فاحتقر
او صفیا عالما بین المضر

گفت پیغمبر که با این سه گروه
رحم آرید ار ز سنگید و ز کوه

آنک او بعد از رییسی خوار شد
وآن توانگر هم که بی دینار شد

وآن سوم آن عالمی که اندر جهان
مبتلی گردد میان ابلهان

زانک از عزت به خواری آمدن
هم چو قطع عضو باشد از بدن

عضو گردد مرده کز تن وا برید
نو بریده جنبد اما نی مدید

هر که از جام الست او خورد پار
هستش امسال آفت رنج و خمار

وآنک چون سگ ز اصل کهدانی بود
کی مرورا حرص سلطانی بود

توبه او جوید که کردست او گناه
آه او گوید که گم کردست راه

English translation

The Prophet said, 'Show mercy to the soul of him who was rich and became poor, and him who was mighty and became despised, or a pure scholar among [the ignorant of] Mudar.' The Prophet said, 'To these three groups, show mercy, even if you are made of stone and mountain. The one who after being a leader was humbled, and the wealthy one who became penniless, and the third, that scholar who in the world is afflicted among fools. For falling from glory into humiliation is like the severing of a limb from the body. A limb becomes dead when cut off from the body; the newly severed limb may twitch, but not for long. He who drank from the Cup of Alast last year, faces this year the affliction of pain and hangover. But he who, like a dog, is by origin from the straw-barn, when would he ever have the desire for sovereignty? Repentance is sought by him who has sinned; the sigh of 'Alas' is uttered by him who has lost the way.'

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