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دفتر اول - بخش ۱۵۲ - اعتماد کردن هاروت و ماروت بر عصمت خویش و امیری اهل دنیا خواستن و در فتنه افتادن / Book One - Section 152 - Harut and Marut Trusting in Their Own Infallibility, Desiring to Rule the People of the World, and Falling into Temptation

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همچو هاروت و چو ماروت شهیر
از بطر خوردند زهرآلود تیر

اعتمادی بودشان بر قدس خویش
چیست بر شیر اعتماد گاومیش

گرچه او با شاخ صد چاره کند
شاخ شاخش شیر نر پاره کند

گر شود پر شاخ همچون خارپشت
شیر خواهد گاو را ناچار کشت

گرچه صرصر بس درختان می کند
با گیاه تر وی احسان می کند

بر ضعیفی گیاه آن باد تند
رحم کرد ای دل تو از قوت ملند

تیشه را ز انبوهی شاخ درخت
کی هراس آید ببرد لخت لخت

لیک بر برگی نکوبد خویش را
جز که بر نیشی نکوبد نیش را

شعله را ز انبوهی هیزم چه غم
کی رمد قصاب از خیل غنم

پیش معنی چیست صورت بس زبون
چرخ را معنیش می دارد نگون

تو قیاس از چرخ دولابی بگیر
گردشش از کیست از عقل مشیر

گردش این قالب همچون سپر
هست از روح مستر ای پسر

گردش این باد از معنی اوست
همچو چرخی کان اسیر آب جوست

جر و مد و دخل و خرج این نفس
از کی باشد جز ز جان پر هوس

گاه جیمش می کند گه حا و دال
گاه صلحش می کند گاهی جدال

گه یمینش می برد گاهی یسار
که گلستانش کند گاهیش خار

همچنین این باد را یزدان ما
کرده بد بر عاد همچون اژدها

باز هم آن باد را بر مؤمنان
کرده بد صلح و مراعات و امان

گفت المعنی هوالله شیخ دین
بحر معنیهای رب العالمین

جمله اطباق زمین و آسمان
همچو خاشاکی در آن بحر روان

حمله ها و رقص خاشاک اندر آب
هم ز آب آمد به وقت اضطراب

چونک ساکن خواهدش کرد از مرا
سوی ساحل افکند خاشاک را

چون کشد از ساحلش در موج گاه
آن کند با او که آتش با گیاه

این حدیث آخر ندارد باز ران
جانب هاروت و ماروت ای جوان

English translation

Like Hārūt and Mārūt, the renowned, from insolent pride they were struck by a poison-tipped arrow. They trusted in their own holiness; what is a buffalo's trust against a lion? Though it contrive a hundred devices with its horns, the male lion tears its horns apart, horn by horn. Even if it became full of horns like a porcupine, the lion will inevitably kill the ox. Though the violent wind uproots trees, it shows kindness to the tender plant. That fierce wind had mercy on the plant's weakness; O heart, do not brag because of strength. When would the axe fear the abundance of a tree's branches? It cuts them to pieces. But it does not strike itself against a leaf; only against a sting does it strike its sting. What worry has flame over abundant firewood? When does a butcher flee from a flock of sheep? Before meaning, form is very abased; its meaning keeps the sphere overturned. Take your analogy from the water-wheel: from whom is its turning? From directing intelligence. The turning of this body, like a shield, is from the hidden spirit, O son. The turning of this wind is from its meaning, like a wheel captive to stream-water. The ebb and flow, intake and outflow of this breath: from whom are they except the desire-filled soul? Sometimes it makes it jīm, sometimes ḥā and dāl; sometimes it makes peace, sometimes conflict. Sometimes it carries it right, sometimes left; sometimes it makes it a rose-garden, sometimes thorns. Likewise, our God had made this wind like a dragon against ʿĀd. Again, He had made that same wind for the believers peace, care, and safety. The shaykh of religion, the sea of the meanings of the Lord of the Worlds, said: al-maʿnā huwa Allāh. All the layers of earth and heaven are like straw floating in that sea. The assaults and dancing of the straw in the water also come from the water at the time of turbulence. When He wishes to make it still, out of mercy, He casts the straw toward the shore. When He draws it from the shore into the place of waves, He does to it what fire does to grass. This discourse has no end; drive back toward Hārūt and Mārūt, O young man.

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