1Cademy - دفتر اول - بخش ۱۵۱ - دعا کردن بلعم با عور کی موسی و قومش را از این شهر کی حصار داده‌اند بی مراد باز گردان و مستجاب شدن دعای او / Book One - Section 151 - Balaam son of Beor praying that Moses and his people be turned back from this city which they have besieged without success, and the answering of his prayer

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مثنوی معنوی: دفتر اول / Masnavi: Book One
دفتر اول - بخش ۱۵۱ - ماجرای بلعم باعور و دعا کردن او از بهر دفع موسی علیه‌السلام تا اثر دعای او ظاهر گشت و عاقبت کار او / Book One - Section 151 - The Story of Balaam Son of Beor and His Supplication Against Moses

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دفتر اول - بخش ۱۵۱ - دعا کردن بلعم با عور کی موسی و قومش را از این شهر کی حصار داده‌اند بی مراد باز گردان و مستجاب شدن دعای او / Book One - Section 151 - Balaam son of Beor praying that Moses and his people be turned back from this city which they have besieged without success, and the answering of his prayer

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بلعم باعور را خلق جهان
سغبه شد مانند عیسی زمان

سجدهٔ ناوردند کس را دون او
صحت رنجور بود افسون او

پنجه زد با موسی از کبر و کمال
آنچنان شد که شنیدستی تو حال

صد هزار ابلیس و بلعم در جهان
همچنین بودست پیدا و نهان

این دو را مشهور گردانید الٓه
تا که باشد این دو بر باقی گواه

این دو دزد آویخت از دار بلند
ورنه اندر قهر بس دزدان بدند

این دو را پرچم به سوی شهر برد
کشتگان قهر را نتوان شمرد

نازنینی تو ولی در حد خویش
الله الله ، پا منه از حد بیش

گر زنی بر نازنین تر از خودت
در تگ هفتم زمین زیر آردت

قصهٔ عاد و ثمود از بهر چیست؟
تا بدانی کانبیا را نازکیست

این نشان خسف و قذف و صاعقه
شد بیان عز نفس ناطقه

جمله حیوان را پی انسان بکش
جمله انسان را بکش از بهر هش

هش چه باشد، عقل کل هوشمند
هوش جزوی هش بود اما نژند

جمله حیوانات وحشی ز آدمی
باشد از حیوان انسی در کمی

خون آنها خلق را باشد سبیل
زانک وحشی اند از عقل جلیل

عزت وحشی بدین افتاد پست
که مر انسان را مخالف آمدست

پس چه عزت باشدت ای نادره
چون شدی تو حمر مستنفره

خر نشاید کشت از بهر صلاح
چون شود وحشی، شود خونش مباح

گرچه خر را دانش زاجر نبود
هیچ معذورش نمی دارد ودود

پس چو وحشی شد از آن دم آدمی
کی بود معذور ای یار سمی

لاجرم کفار را شد خون مباح
همچو وحشی پیش نشاب و رماح

جفت و فرزندانشان جمله سبیل
زانک بی عقلند و مردود و ذلیل

باز عقلی کو رمد از عقل عقل
کرد از عقلی به حیوانات نقل

English translation

Balaam son of Beor: the people of the world were beguiled by him, as though he were the Jesus of his age. They bowed to no one other than him; his incantation was health for the sick. He contended with Moses out of pride and self-perfection, and became as you have heard his story. A hundred thousand Iblises and Balaams in the world have been like this, manifest and hidden. God made these two famous so that they might be witnesses for the rest. He hung these two thieves from a high gallows; otherwise there were many thieves under wrath. He carried these two as a banner toward the city; those slain by wrath cannot be counted. You are precious, but within your own limit; God, God, do not set your foot beyond the limit. If you strike at one more precious than yourself, he will bring you down beneath the seventh depth of the earth. What are the stories of 'Ad and Thamud for? So that you may know that prophets are tenderly precious. These signs of swallowing up, pelting, and thunderbolt became the declaration of the dignity of the speaking soul. Kill all animals for the sake of man; kill all men for the sake of intelligence. What is intelligence? The Universal Intellect, aware; partial intelligence is intelligence, but sickly and dejected. All wild animals, compared with man, are lower than domestic animals. Their blood is permitted to people because they are wild, far from the majestic Intellect. The dignity of the wild one fell low because it became opposed to man. Then what dignity will you have, O rare one, when you have become like startled asses? An ass should not be killed for correction; when it becomes wild, its blood becomes licit. Although the ass has no restraining knowledge, the Loving One does not hold it excused at all. So when a human becomes wild from that breath, how could he be excused, O noble friend? Therefore the blood of unbelievers became licit, like wild beasts before arrows and spears. Their mates and children are all fair game, because they are without intellect, rejected, and abased. Again, an intellect that flees from the Intellect of intellect has transferred from intellect to the level of animals.

Updated 2026-06-30

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