1Cademy - دفتر چهارم - بخش ۱۱۴ - گفتن خلیل مر جبرئیل را علیهماالسلام چون پرسیدش کی الک حاجة خلیل جوابش داد کی اما الیک فلا / Book Four - Section 114 - Khalil Saying to Gabriel, Peace Be Upon Them Both, When He Asked Him, Do You Have a Need? Khalil Answered Him, As for You, No

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مثنوی معنوی: دفتر چهارم / Masnavi: Book Four

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دفتر چهارم - بخش ۱۱۴ - گفتن خلیل مر جبرئیل را علیهماالسلام چون پرسیدش کی الک حاجة خلیل جوابش داد کی اما الیک فلا / Book Four - Section 114 - Khalil Saying to Gabriel, Peace Be Upon Them Both, When He Asked Him, 'Do You Have a Need?' Khalil Answered Him, 'As for You, No'

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من خلیل وقتم و او جبرئیل
من نخواهم در بلا او را دلیل

او ادب ناموخت از جبریل راد
که بپرسید از خلیل حق مراد

که مرادت هست تا یاری کنم
ورنه بگریزم سبکباری کنم

گفت ابراهیم نی رو از میان
واسطه زحمت بود بعد العیان

بهر این دنیاست مرسل رابطه
مؤمنان را زانک هست او واسطه

هر دل ار سامع بدی وحی نهان
حرف و صوتی کی بدی اندر جهان

گرچه او محو حقست و بی‌سرست
لیک کار من از آن نازکترست

کردهٔ او کردهٔ شاهست لیک
پیش ضعفم بد نماینده‌ست نیک

آنچ عین لطف باشد بر عوام
قهر شد بر نازنینان کرام

بس بلا و رنج می‌باید کشید
عامه را تا فرق را توانند دید

کین حروف واسطه ای یار غار
پیش واصل خار باشد خار خار

بس بلا و رنج بایست و وقوف
تا رهد آن روح صافی از حروف

لیک بعضی زین صدا کرتر شدند
باز بعضی صافی و برتر شدند

هم‌چو آب نیل آمد این بلا
سعد را آبست و خون بر اشقیا

هر که پایان‌بین‌تر او مسعودتر
جدتر او کارد که افزون دید بر

زانک داند کین جهان کاشتن
هست بهر محشر و برداشتن

هیچ عقدی بهر عین خود نبود
بلک از بهر مقام ربح و سود

هیچ نبود منکری گر بنگری
منکری‌اش بهر عین منکری

بل برای قهر خصم اندر حسد
یا فزونی جستن و اظهار خود

وآن فزونی هم پی طمع دگر
بی‌معانی چاشنی ندهد صور

زان همی‌پرسی چرا این می‌کنی
که صور زیتست و معنی روشنی

ورنه این گفتن چرا از بهر چیست
چونک صورت بهر عین صورتیست

این چرا گفتن سال از فایده‌ست
جز برای این چرا گفتن بدست

از چه رو فایدهٔ جویی ای امین
چون بود فایده این خود همین

پس نقوش آسمان و اهل زمین
نیست حکمت کان بود بهر همین

گر حکیمی نیست این ترتیب چیست
ور حکیمی هست چون فعلش تهیست

کس نسازد نقش گرمابه و خضاب
جز پی قصد صواب و ناصواب

English translation

I am the Khalil of this time and he is Gabriel — In tribulation I do not want him as guide.

He learned no courtesy from noble Gabriel, Who asked Khalil: "What is God's desire for you?"

"What is your wish, so that I may help you; Otherwise I will flee and unburden myself."

Abraham said: "No — go from between us; After direct vision, the intermediary is a burden."

For this reason the messenger exists in the world as a bond — A link for believers, since he is their intermediary.

If every heart were a direct receiver of hidden revelation, What need for letters and sound would exist in the world?

Though he is annihilated in God and without a head, Yet my work is more subtle than that.

His deed is the deed of the King — but Before my weakness, what seems evil appears as good.

What is pure grace for the common folk Becomes wrath for the noble and delicate ones.

Much tribulation and pain the common people must endure Until they can see the distinction.

For these intermediary letters, O intimate companion, Are thorns — thorn upon thorn — to the one who has attained.

Much tribulation and pain and standing were needed Until that pure spirit could be freed from letters.

But some became deafer from this sound, While others became purer and more elevated.

This tribulation came like the water of the Nile — For the fortunate it is water, and blood for the wretched.

Whoever sees the end more clearly is the more fortunate; He works more earnestly, for he has seen greater reward.

For he knows that this world is a sowing For the Resurrection and the harvest.

No contract was ever for its own sake alone, But for the station of profit and gain.

There was never a denier, if you look carefully, Whose denial was for the sake of denial itself —

But rather to overpower the rival in envy, Or to seek superiority and to display oneself.

And that superiority is itself in pursuit of another desire. Forms without meaning give no taste.

Therefore you ask, "Why do you do this?" — For form is the oil and meaning is the light.

Otherwise, what is the purpose of saying "why"? Since form would be for the sake of form itself.

Asking "why" is a question about benefit — Except that asking "why" exists for this very reason.

Why do you seek benefit, O trustworthy one, When the benefit is this very thing itself?

So the patterns of heaven and the people of earth — There is no wisdom if they exist for this alone.

If there is no Wise One, what is this order? And if there is a Wise One, how can His act be empty?

No one creates the image of a bathhouse and henna Except in pursuit of right or wrong intention.

Updated 2026-05-09

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