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دفتر چهارم - بخش ۱۹ - قصهٔ آغاز خلافت عثمان رضی الله عنه و خطبهٔ وی در بیان آنک ناصح فعال به فعل به از ناصح قوال به قول / Book Four - Section 19 - The Tale of the Beginning of the Caliphate of Uthman, May God be Pleased with Him, and His Sermon Explaining That the Active Advisor by Deed is Better Than the Speaking Advisor by Word

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قصهٔ عثمان که بر منبر برفت
چون خلافت یافت بشتابید تفت

منبر مهتر که سه پایه بدست
رفت بوبکر و دوم پایه نشست

بر سوم پایه عمر در دور خویش
از برای حرمت اسلام و کیش

دور عثمان آمد او بالای تخت
بر شد و بنشست آن محمودبخت

پس سؤالش کرد شخصی بوالفضول
که آن دو ننشستند بر جای رسول

پس تو چون جستی ازیشان برتری
چون برتبت تو ازیشان کمتری

گفت اگر پایهٔ سوم را بسپرم
وهم آید که مثال عمرم

بر دوم پایه شوم من جای جو
گویی بوبکرست و این هم مثل او

هست این بالا مقام مصطفی
وهم مثلی نیست با آن شه مرا

بعد از آن بر جای خطبه آن ودود
تا به قرب عصر لب خاموش بود

زهره نه کس را که گوید هین بخوان
یا برون آید ز مسجد آن زمان

هیبتی بنشسته بد بر خاص و عام
پر شده نور خدا آن صحن و بام

هر که بینا ناظر نورش بدی
کور زان خورشید هم گرم آمدی

پس ز گرمی فهم کردی چشم کور
که بر آمد آفتابی بی فتور

لیک این گرمی گشاید دیده را
تا ببیند عین هر بشنیده را

گرمیش را ضجرتی و حالتی
زان تبش دل را گشادی فسحتی

کور چون شد گرم از نور قدم
از فرح گوید که من بینا شدم

سخت خوش مستی ولی ای بوالحسن
پاره ای راهست تا بینا شدن

این نصیب کور باشد ز آفتاب
صد چنین والله اعلم بالصواب

وآنک او آن نور را بینا بود
شرح او کی کار بوسینا بود

ور شود صد تو که باشد این زبان
که بجنباند به کف پردهٔ عیان

وای بر وی گر بساید پرده را
تیغ اللهی کند دستش جدا

دست چه بود خود سرش را بر کند
آن سری کز جهل سرها می کند

این به تقدیر سخن گفتم ترا
ورنه خود دستش کجا و آن کجا

خاله را خایه بدی خالو شدی
این به تقدیر آمدست ار او بدی

از زبان تا چشم کو پاک از شک ست
صد هزاران ساله گویم اندکست

هین مشو نومید نور از آسمان
حق چو خواهد می رسد در یک زمان

صد اثر در کانها از اختران
می رساند قدرتش در هر زمان

اختر گردون ظلم را ناسخست
اختر حق در صفاتش راسخست

چرخ پانصد ساله راه ای مستعین
در اثر نزدیک آمد با زمین

سه هزاران سال و پانصد تا زحل
دم بدم خاصیتش آرد عمل

در همش آرد چو سایه در ایاب
طول سایه چیست پیش آفتاب

وز نفوس پاک اختروش مدد
سوی اخترهای گردون می رسد

ظاهر آن اختران قوام ما
باطن ما گشته قوام سما

English translation

The story of Uthman who mounted the pulpit — When he gained the caliphate, he hastened swiftly.

The great pulpit, which had three steps: Abu Bakr went and sat on the second step.

On the third step 'Umar in his era, Out of reverence for Islam and the faith.

'Uthman's era came; he went up to the top of the throne, He rose and sat, that blessed-fortuned one.

Then a meddlesome person questioned him — That those two had not sat in the place of the Prophet:

"So how do you seek to surpass them, When in rank you are lesser than they?"

He said: "If I were to tread upon the third step, The impression would arise that I am 'Umar's likeness.

If I go to the second step seeking a place, They would say: 'This is Abu Bakr' — and this too is his image.

This topmost place is the station of Mustafa; No illusion of likeness to that King belongs to me."

After that, in the place of the sermon, that loving one Kept his lips silent until near the afternoon prayer.

No one had the courage to say, "Come, recite!" Or to leave the mosque at that time.

An awe had settled upon the elite and the common; That courtyard and roof were filled with the light of God.

Whoever was sighted would behold his light; The blind, too, would grow warm from that sun.

Then from the warmth, the blind eye would understand That a sun without decline had risen.

But this warmth opens the eye So that it sees the very essence of all it has heard.

From its warmth comes a restlessness and a spiritual state; From that fervor, an opening and spaciousness for the heart.

When the blind one grows warm from the primordial light, From joy he says: "I have become sighted!"

A very sweet intoxication — but, O Abul-Hasan, There is still some road remaining to true sight.

This is the blind one's portion from the sun — A hundredfold of such things. God knows best what is right.

And as for him who truly sees that light — How could explaining it ever be the work of Ibn Sina?

And if there were a hundred of you — what tongue exists That could move aside with its palm the veil of the manifest?

Woe to him if he brushes against that veil — The sword of God will sever his hand.

What is the hand? It will tear off his very head — That head which, out of ignorance, cuts off other heads.

I spoke this to you hypothetically; Otherwise, where is his hand, and where is That?

Had the aunt been given testicles, she would have become an uncle — This is said hypothetically — if it were so.

From tongue to eye — where is one pure from brokenness? A hundred thousand years of speaking would be too little.

Come, do not despair — light from heaven, When the Truth wills it, arrives in an instant.

A hundred effects in the mines from the stars His power delivers, moment by moment.

The celestial star abrogates oppression; The star of Truth is steadfast in its attributes.

The sphere of five hundred years' journey, O seeker of aid, In its effect has drawn near to the earth.

Three thousand and five hundred years to Saturn — Moment by moment, its property brings its work to bear.

It folds them down like a shadow in retreat; What is the length of a shadow before the sun?

And from the pure, star-like souls, aid Reaches toward the stars of the celestial sphere.

Outwardly, those stars are our sustenance; Our inward being has become the sustenance of the heavens.

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