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دفتر چهارم - بخش ۱۵ - گفتن آن جهود علی را کرم الله وجهه کی اگر اعتماد داری بر حافظی حق از سر این کوشک خود را در انداز و جواب گفتن امیرالمؤمنین او را / Book Four - Section 15 - That Jew Saying to Ali, May God Honor His Face, 'If You Have Trust in God's Protection, Throw Yourself from the Top of This Palace,' and the Reply of the Commander of the Faithful to Him

متن و ترجمه / Text and Translation

مرتضی را گفت روزی یک عنودکو ز تعظیم خدا آگه نبود
One day a stubborn adversary said to Murtaḍā,
one who was unaware of the reverence owed to God.
بر سر بامی و قصری بس بلندحفظ حق را واقفی ای هوشمند
[They were] atop a very lofty roof and palace:
"Are you acquainted with God's protection, O man of intelligence?"
گفت آری او حفیظست و غنیهستی ما را ز طفلی و منی
He said: "Yes, He is the Guardian and the Self-Sufficient,
sustaining our existence from infancy and from the seminal drop."
گفت خود را اندر افکن هین ز باماعتمادی کن بحفظ حق تمام
He said: "Then throw yourself from the roof right now!
Place complete trust in God's protection,
تا یقین گردد مرا ایمان توو اعتقاد خوب با برهان تو
So that your conviction may become certain to me,
and your fine belief together with its proof."
پس امیرش گفت خامش کن بروتا نگردد جانت زین جرئت گرو
Then the Commander said to him: "Be silent and be gone,
lest your soul be forfeited for this audacity.
کی رسد مر بنده را که با خداآزمایش پیش آرد ز ابتلا
How could it befit a servant to bring
a trial before God as a test?
بنده را کی زهره باشد کز فضولامتحان حق کند ای گیج گول
When would a servant have the audacity, out of impertinence,
to test God, O bewildered fool?
آن خدا را می رسد کو امتحانپیش آرد هر دمی با بندگان
It befits God to bring a test
before His servants at every moment,
تا به ما ما را نماید آشکارکه چه داریم از عقیده در سرار
So that He may reveal us to ourselves openly —
what we carry of belief in secret.
هیچ آدم گفت حق را که تو راامتحان کردم درین جرم و خطا
Has any person ever said to God: 'I have tested You
in this crime and transgression,
تا ببینم غایت حلمت شهااه کرا باشد مجال این کرا
That I might see the utmost of Your forbearance, O King!'?
Ah, who has the scope for this? Who?
عقل تو از بس که آمد خیره سرهست عذرت از گناه تو بتر
Your reason has become so reckless,
your excuse is worse than your sin itself.
آنک او افراشت سقف آسمانتو چه دانی کردن او را امتحان
He who raised the vault of the heavens —
what do you know of testing Him?
ای ندانسته تو شر و خیر راامتحان خود را کن آنگه غیر را
O you who have not distinguished evil from good,
test yourself first, and only then others.
امتحان خود چو کردی ای فلانفارغ آیی ز امتحان دیگران
When you have tested yourself, O such-and-such,
you will be free of testing others.
چون بدانستی که شکردانه ایپس بدانی کاهل شکرخانه ای
Once you have come to know that you are a grain of sugar,
you will then know that you belong to the house of sugar.
پس بدان بی امتحانی که الهشکری نفرستدت ناجایگاه
Then know, without testing, that God
does not send a grain of sugar to an unworthy place.
این بدان بی امتحان از علم شاهچون سری نفرستدت در پایگاه
Know this without testing, from the King's knowledge:
just as He sends no head to an unworthy station.
هیچ عاقل افکند در ثمیندر میان مستراحی پر چمین
Would any wise man throw a precious pearl
into a privy filled with filth?
زانک گندم را حکیم آگهیهیچ نفرستد به انبار کهی
For a wise and discerning man
never sends wheat to a rotten storehouse.
شیخ را که پیشوا و رهبرستگر مریدی امتحان کرد او خرست
The Shaykh who is guide and leader —
if a disciple tests him, that disciple is an ass.
امتحانش گر کنی در راه دینهم تو گردی ممتحن ای بی یقین
If you test him on the path of religion,
you yourself become the tested one, O faithless one.
جرات و جهلت شود عریان و فاشاو برهنه کی شود زان افتتاش
Your audacity and ignorance will be stripped bare and exposed —
when will he ever be bared by your probing?
گر بیاید ذره سنجد کوه رابر درد زان که ترازوش ای فتی
If a mote comes to weigh the mountain,
the mote's own scale will be torn apart, O youth.
کز قیاس خود ترازو می تندمرد حق را در ترازو می کند
For from its own measure it weaves a scale,
and places the Man of God in that scale.
چون نگنجد او به میزان خردپس ترازوی خرد را بر درد
When he does not fit into the scale of reason,
the scale of reason is torn to pieces.
امتحان هم چون تصرف دان دروتو تصرف بر چنان شاهی مجو
Know that testing is like claiming authority over him —
do not seek authority over such a King.
چه تصرف کرد خواهد نقشهابر چنان نقاش بهر ابتلا
What authority would mere forms and patterns claim
over such a Painter, for the purpose of trial?
امتحانی گر بدانست و بدیدنی که هم نقاش آن بر وی کشید
If someone came to know and perceive through a test,
was it not the Painter Himself who drew that upon him?
چه قدر باشد خود این صورت که بستپیش صورتها که در علم ویست
What worth has this form that He fashioned,
before the forms that dwell in His knowledge?
وسوسهٔ این امتحان چون آمدتبخت بد دان کآمد و گردن زدت
When the temptation to test comes upon you,
know that ill fortune has arrived and struck off your head.
چون چنین وسواس دیدی زود زودبا خدا گرد و در آ اندر سجود
When you see such a temptation, quickly, quickly,
turn to God and enter into prostration.
سجده گه را تر کن از اشک روانکای خدا تو وا رهانم زین گمان
Wet the place of prostration with flowing tears:
"O God, deliver me from this doubt!"
آن زمان کت امتحان مطلوب شدمسجد دین تو پر خروب شد
That moment when testing became your desire,
the mosque of your religion was filled with carob-pods.

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