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دفتر اول - بخش ۸۳ - در معنی آنک من اراد ان یجلس مع الله فلیجلس مع اهل التصوف / Book One - Section 83 - On the Meaning of 'Whoever Desires to Sit with God, Let Him Sit with the People of Sufism'

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آن رسول از خود بشد زین یک دو جام
نی رسالت یاد ماندش نی پیام

واله اندر قدرت الله شد
آن رسول اینجا رسید و شاه شد

سیل چون آمد به دریا بحر گشت
دانه چون آمد به مزرع صحو گشت

چون تعلق یافت نان با بوالبشر
نان مرده زنده گشت و با خبر

موم و هیزم چون فدای نار شد
ذات ظلمانی او انوار شد

سنگ سرمه چونک شد در دیدگان
گشت بینایی شد آنجا دیدبان

ای خنک آن مرد کز خود رسته شد
در وجود زنده ای پیوسته شد

وای آن زنده که با مرده نشست
مرده گشت و زندگی از وی بجست

چون تو در قرآن حق بگریختی
با روان انبیا آمیختی

هست قرآن حالهای انبیا
ماهیان بحر پاک کبریا

ور بخوانی و نه ای قرآن پذیر
انبیا و اولیا را دیده گیر

ور پذیرایی چو بر خوانی قصص
مرغ جانت تنگ آید در قفس

مرغ کو اندر قفس زندانیست
می نجوید رستن از نادانیست

روحهایی کز قفسها رسته اند
انبیاء رهبر شایسته اند

از برون آوازشان آید ز دین
که ره رستن ترا اینست این

ما بدین رستیم زین تنگین قفس
جز که این ره نیست چارهٔ این قفس

خویش را رنجور سازی زار زار
تا ترا بیرون کنند از اشتهار

که اشتهار خلق بند محکمست
در ره این از بند آهن کی کمست

English translation

That messenger went out of himself from these one or two cups; neither apostleship nor message remained in his memory. He became bewildered in the power of God; when that messenger reached this station, he became a king. When a flood comes to the sea, it becomes sea; when a seed comes to the field, it becomes crop. When bread became attached to the father of humankind, dead bread became living and aware. When wax and firewood were sacrificed to fire, their dark substance became lights. When the antimony stone entered the eyes, it became sight; there it became a watcher. Blessed is the person who escaped from himself and was joined to the being of a living one. Woe to the living one who sat with the dead: he became dead, and life fled from him. When you fled for refuge into the Qur'an of God, you mingled with the spirits of the prophets. The Qur'an is the states of the prophets, the fish of the pure sea of Majesty. But if you read and are not receptive to the Qur'an, then regard the prophets and saints as having been seen only outwardly. And if, when you read the stories, you are receptive, the bird of your soul will feel cramped in the cage. A bird imprisoned in a cage, if it does not seek release, that is from ignorance. Souls that have escaped from cages: the prophets are worthy guides. From outside, through religion, their voices come: 'The way of your release is this, this. By this we escaped from this narrow cage; there is no remedy for this cage except this path.' Make yourself sick, wretchedly sick, so that they may take you out of notoriety; for fame among people is a firm bond, and on this path how is it less than an iron bond?

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