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مثنوی معنوی: دفتر چهارم / Masnavi: Book Four

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دفتر چهارم - بخش ۱۰۴ - قصهٔ آن زن کی طفل او بر سر ناودان غیژید و خطر افتادن بود و از علی کرم‌الله وجهه چاره جست / Book Four - Section 104 - The Story of That Woman Whose Infant Crawled Onto the Gutter and Was in Danger of Falling, and Who Sought a Remedy From Ali, May God Honor His Face

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یک زنی آمد به پیش مرتضی	گفت شد بر ناودان طفلی مرا
A woman came before Murtaza, Saying, 'My infant has gone onto the gutter.
گرش می خوانم نمی آید به دست	ور هلم ترسم که افتد او به پست
If I call him, he doesn't come to my hand, And if I leave him, I fear he will fall down.
نیست عاقل تا که دریابد چون ما	گر بگویم کز خطر سوی من آ
He is not rational to understand like us, If I say, 'Come to me from danger.'
هم اشارت را نمی داند به دست	ور بداند نشنود این هم بدست
He also doesn't understand hand gestures, And if he did, he wouldn't listen; this too is out of hand.
بس نمودم شیر و پستان را بدو	او همی گرداند از من چشم و رو
I have shown him milk and breast a lot, He keeps turning his eyes and face away from me.
از برای حق شمایید ای مهان	دستگیر این جهان و آن جهان
For the sake of God, you are, O great ones, The helpers of this world and that world.
زود درمان کن که می لرزد دلم	که بدرد از میوهٔ دل بسکلم
Quickly provide a remedy, for my heart is trembling, Lest I be torn in pain from the fruit of my heart.'
گفت طفلی را بر آور هم به بام	تا ببیند جنس خود را آن غلام
He said, 'Bring another infant up to the roof as well, So that the boy may see his own kind.
سوی جنس آید سبک زان ناودان	جنس بر جنس است عاشق جاودان
He will come swiftly towards his own kind from that gutter, Kind is eternally in love with kind.'
زن چنان کرد و چو دید آن طفل او	جنس خود خوش خوش بدو آورد رو
The woman did so, and when her infant saw His own kind, he happily turned his face towards him.
سوی بام آمد ز متن ناودان	جاذب هر جنس را هم جنس دان
He came towards the roof from the middle of the gutter, Know that the attractor of every kind is its own kind.
غژغژان آمد به سوی طفل طفل	وا رهید او از فتادن سوی سفل
Crawling, the infant came towards the infant, He was saved from falling downwards.
زان بود جنس بشر پیغامبران	تا بجنسیت رهند از ناودان
For that reason the prophets are of the human kind, So that through homogeneity they may be saved from the gutter.
پس بشر فرمود خود را مثلکم	تا به جنس آیید و کم گردید گم
So He commanded the human, 'I am like you', So that you come to your own kind and are less lost.
زانک جنسیت عجایب جاذبیست	جاذبش جنسست هر جا طالبیست
Because homogeneity is a wondrous attractor, Its attractor is its kind, wherever there is a seeker.
عیسی و ادریس بر گردون شدند	با ملایک چونک هم جنس آمدند
Jesus and Idris went up to the heavens, Because they became homogenous with the angels.
باز آن هاروت و ماروت از بلند	جنس تن بودند زان زیر آمدند
Again, those Harut and Marut from high up, Were of the kind of the body, therefore they came down.
کافران هم جنس شیطان آمده	جانشان شاگرد شیطانان شده
The disbelievers became homogenous with Satan, Their souls became students of Satans.
صد هزاران خوی بد آموخته	دیده های عقل و دل بر دوخته
Having learned hundreds of thousands of bad habits, Having sewn shut the eyes of intellect and heart.
کمترین خوشان به زشتی آن حسد	آن حسد که گردن ابلیس زد
The least of their habits in ugliness is that envy, That envy which struck the neck of Iblis.
زان سگان آموخته حقد و حسد	که نخواهد خلق را ملک ابد
From those dogs they learned malice and envy, Who do not want the eternal kingdom for the creation.
هر کرا دید او کمال از چپ و راست	از حسد قولنجش آمد درد خاست
Whoever saw perfection from left and right, From envy his colic came, pain arose.
زآنک هر بدبخت خرمن سوخته	می نخواهد شمع کس افروخته
Because every wretch whose harvest is burnt, Does not want anyone's candle lit.
هین کمالی دست آور تا تو هم	از کمال دیگران نفتی به غم
Beware, acquire perfection so that you too, Do not fall into sorrow from the perfection of others.
از خدا می خواه دفع این حسد	تا خدایت وا رهاند از جسد
Seek from God the repulsion of this envy, So that your God may deliver you from the body.
مر ترا مشغولیی بخشد درون	که نپردازی از آن سوی برون
May He grant you an inner occupation, So that you don't attend to the outside.
جرعهٔ می را خدا آن می دهد	که بدو مست از دو عالم می دهد
God gives that sip of wine, By which He makes him drunk to both worlds.
خاصیت بنهاده در کف حشیش	کو زمانی می رهاند از خودیش
He has placed a property in a handful of hashish, That for a time delivers him from himself.
خواب را یزدان بدان سان می کند	کز دو عالم فکر را بر می کند
God makes sleep in such a way, That it uproots thought from both worlds.
کرد مجنون را ز عشق پوستی	کو بنشناسد عدو از دوستی
He made Majnun a skin out of love, Who does not recognize enemy from friend.
صد هزاران این چنین می دارد او	که بر ادراکات تو بگمارد او
He has hundreds of thousands of such wines, Which He appoints over your perceptions.
هست میهای شقاوت نفس را	که ز ره بیرون برد آن نحس را
There are wines of wretchedness for the ego, Which take that ominous one out of the way.
هست میهای سعادت عقل را	که بیابد منزل بی نقل را
There are wines of felicity for the intellect, Which finds the abode without transfer.
خیمهٔ گردون ز سرمستی خویش	بر کند زان سو بگیرد راه پیش
The tent of the sky, out of its intoxication, He uproots, and takes the way forward from that side.
هین بهر مستی دلا غره مشو	هست عیسی مست حق خر مست جو
Beware, O heart, don't be deceived by every intoxication, Jesus is intoxicated with Truth, the donkey is intoxicated with barley.
این چنین می را بجو زین خنبها	مستی اش نبود ز کوته دنبها
Seek such wine from these vats, Its intoxication is not from the short-tailed ones.
زانک هر معشوق چون خنبیست پر	آن یکی درد و دگر صافی چو در
Because every beloved is like a full vat, One is dregs, and the other pure like pearl.
می شناسا هین بچش با احتیاط	تا میی یابی منزه ز اختلاط
O wine-taster, beware, taste with caution, Until you find a wine free from mixture.
هر دو مستی می دهندت لیک این	مستی ات آرد کشان تا رب دین
Both give you intoxication, but this one, Brings you intoxicated, dragging you to the Lord of Religion.
تا رهی از فکر و وسواس و حیل	بی عقال این عقل در رقص الجمل
So that you may be freed from thought, whisperings, and tricks, Without hobble, this intellect in the dance of the camel.
انبیا چون جنس روحند و ملک	مر ملک را جذب کردند از فلک
Since prophets are of the kind of spirit and angel, They attracted the angels from the sky.
باد جنس آتش است و یار او	که بود آهنگ هر دو بر علو
Wind is of the kind of fire and its companion, Since the tendency of both is upwards.
چون ببندی تو سر کوزهٔ تهی	در میان حوض یا جویی نهی
When you tie the mouth of an empty jug, And put it in the middle of a pool or stream,
تا قیامت آن فرو ناید به پست	که دلش خالیست و در وی باد هست
Until resurrection it will not sink down, Because its heart is empty and there is wind in it.
میل بادش چون سوی بالا بود	ظرف خود را هم سوی بالا کشد
Since the inclination of its wind is upwards, It pulls its container upwards too.
باز آن جانها که جنس انبیاست	سوی ایشان کش کشان چون سایه هاست
Again, those souls that are of the kind of prophets, Are dragged towards them like shadows.
زانک عقلش غالبست و بی ز شک	عقل جنس آمد به خلقت با ملک
Because his intellect is dominant, and without doubt, The intellect in creation is of the kind of the angel.
وان هوای نفس غالب بر عدو	نفس جنس اسفل آمد شد بدو
And that desire of the ego, dominant over the enemy, The ego is of the lowest kind, and went to him.
بود قبطی جنس فرعون ذمیم	بود سبطی جنس موسی کلیم
The Copt was of the kind of the blameworthy Pharaoh, The Israelite was of the kind of Moses the converser.
بود هامان جنس تر فرعون را	برگزیدش برد بر صدر سرا
Haman was more of the kind of Pharaoh, He chose him and took him to the head of the house.
لاجرم از صدر تا قعرش کشید	که ز جنس دوزخ اند آن دو پلید
Consequently, it dragged him from the head to the bottom, Because those two filthy ones are of the kind of hell.
هر دو سوزنده چو ذوزخ ضد نور	هر دو چون دوزخ ز نور دل نفور
Both are burning like hell, opposite to light, Both, like hell, averse to the light of the heart.
زانک دوزخ گوید ای مؤمن تو زود	برگذر که نورت آتش را ربود
Because hell says, 'O believer, you quickly Pass by, for your light has snatched away the fire.'
می رمد آن دوزخی از نور هم	زانک طبع دوزخستش ای صنم
That hellish one flees from the light too, Because he has the nature of hell, O idol.
دوزخ از مومن گریزد آنچنان	که گریزد مومن از دوزخ به جان
Hell flees from the believer in such a way, As the believer flees from hell with his soul.
زانک جنس نار نبود نور او	ضد نار آمد حقیقت نورجو
Because his light is not of the kind of fire, In truth, the seeker of light is the opposite of fire.
در حدیث آمد که مومن در دعا	چون امان خواهد ز دوزخ از خدا
It has come in a hadith that when a believer in prayer, Seeks safety from hell from God,
دوزخ از وی هم امان خواهد به جان	که خدایا دور دارم از فلان
Hell too will seek safety from him with its soul, Saying, 'O God, keep me far from so-and-so.'
جاذبهٔ جنسیتست اکنون ببین	که تو جنس کیستی از کفر و دین
It is the attraction of homogeneity, now see, Whose kind you are, of infidelity and religion.
گر بهامان مایلی هامانیی	ور به موسی مایلی سبحانیی
If you are inclined to Haman, you are Haman-like, And if you are inclined to Moses, you are divine.
ور بهر دو مایلی انگیخته	نفس و عقلی هر دوان آمیخته
And if you are provoked to be inclined to both, You are both ego and intellect, both mixed together.
هر دو در جنگند هان و هان بکوش	تا شود غالب معانی بر نقوش
Both are in a war; beware, beware, strive, So that meanings become victorious over forms.
در جهان جنگ شادی این بسست	که ببینی بر عدو هر دم شکست
In the war of the world, this joy is enough, That you see the defeat of the enemy every moment.
آن ستیزه رو بسختی عاقبت	گفت با هامان برای مشورت
That quarrelsome faced one, with hardship in the end, Spoke to Haman for consultation.
وعده های آن کلیم الله را	گفت و محرم ساخت آن گمراه را
The promises of that Converser with God, He told, and made that misguided one his confidant.

Updated 2026-09-12

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