1Cademy - دفتر اول - بخش ۱۱۴ - صبر فرمودن اعرابی زن خود را و فضیلت صبر و فقر بیان کردن با زن / Book One - Section 114 - The Arab enjoining patience upon his wife and explaining the virtue of patience and poverty to her

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مثنوی معنوی: دفتر اول / Masnavi: Book One
دفتر اول - بخش ۱۱۱ - قصهٔ اعرابی درویش و ماجرای زن با او به سبب قلت و درویشی / Book One - Section 111 - The Tale of the Dervish Bedouin and His Wife's Dispute with Him Due to Scarcity and Poverty

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دفتر اول - بخش ۱۱۴ - صبر فرمودن اعرابی زن خود را و فضیلت صبر و فقر بیان کردن با زن / Book One - Section 114 - The Arab enjoining patience upon his wife and explaining the virtue of patience and poverty to her

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شوی گفتش چند جویی دخل و کشت
خود چه ماند از عمر افزون تر گذشت

عاقل اندر بیش و نقصان ننگرد
زانک هر دو همچو سیلی بگذرد

خواه صاف و خواه سیل تیره رو
چون نمی پاید دمی از وی مگو

اندرین عالم هزاران جانور
می زید خوش عیش بی زیر و زبر

شکر می گوید خدا را فاخته
بر درخت و برگ شب نا ساخته

حمد می گوید خدا را عندلیب
کاعتماد رزق بر تست ای مجیب

باز دست شاه را کرده نوید
از همه مردار ببریده امید

همچنین از پشه گیری تا به پیل
شد عیال الله و حق نعم المعیل

این همه غمها که اندر سینه هاست
از بخار و گرد باد و بود ماست

این غمان بیخ کن چون داس ماست
این چنین شد و آنچنان وسواس ماست

دان که هر رنجی ز مردن پاره ایست
جزو مرگ از خود بران گر چاره ایست

چون ز جزو مرگ نتوانی گریخت
دان که کلش بر سرت خواهند ریخت

جزو مرگ ار گشت شیرین مر ترا
دان که شیرین می کند کل را خدا

دردها از مرگ می آید رسول
از رسولش رو مگردان ای فضول

هر که شیرین می زید او تلخ مرد
هر که او تن را پرستد جان نبرد

گوسفندان را ز صحرا می کشند
آنک فربه تر مر آن را می کشند

شب گذشت و صبح آمد ای تمر
چند گیری این فسانهٔ زر ز سر

تو جوان بودی و قانع تر بدی
زر طلب گشتی، خود اول زر بدی

رز بدی پر میوه چون کاسد شدی؟
وقت میوه پختنت فاسد شدی

میوه ات باید که شیرین تر شود
چون رسن تابان، نه واپس تر رود

جفت مایی جفت باید هم صفت
تا برآید کارها با مصلحت

جفت باید بر مثال همدگر
در دو جفت کفش و موزه در نگر

گر یکی کفش از دو تنگ آید به پا
هر دو جفتش کار ناید مر ترا

جفت در یک خرد وان دیگر بزرگ
جفت شیر بیشه دیدی هیچ گرگ

راست ناید بر شتر جفت جوال
آن یکی خالی و این پر مال مال

من روم سوی قناعت دل قوی
تو چرا سوی شناعت می روی

مرد قانع از سر اخلاص و سوز
زین نسق می گفت با زن تا بروز

English translation

The husband said to her, "How long will you seek income and sowing? What remains of life, when more than it has already passed? The wise person does not look to increase and decrease, for both pass like a torrent. Whether clear or a dark-flowing flood, since it does not last a moment, do not speak of it. In this world thousands of creatures live happily, without anxiety and upheaval. The turtledove gives thanks to God on the tree, though it has not prepared leaf or night-provision. The nightingale praises God: 'My trust for sustenance is in You, O Answerer.' The falcon has taken promise from the king's hand and has cut off hope from every carcass. Likewise, from the gnat-catcher to the elephant, all are God's household, and God is an excellent provider. All these griefs that are in breasts are from the vapor, dust, wind, and existence of us. These root-cutting griefs are like our sickle; our obsession is, 'This became so, and that became thus.' Know that every pain is a piece of death. Drive the part of death away from yourself, if there is a remedy. Since you cannot flee from the part of death, know that they will pour the whole of it on your head. If the part of death becomes sweet to you, know that God will make the whole sweet. Pains come as messengers from death; do not turn your face from its messenger, O meddlesome one. Whoever lives sweetly dies bitterly; whoever worships the body does not carry off the soul. They draw sheep from the pasture; whichever is fatter, that one they slaughter. The night has passed and morning has come, O date-palm; how long will you begin again this tale of gold? You were young and more content; you became a seeker of gold, while at first you yourself were gold. You were a vine full of fruit; how did you become worthless? At the time for your fruit to ripen, you became spoiled. Your fruit should become sweeter; like a rope being twisted, it should not go backward. You are my mate; a mate should be of like quality, so that affairs may turn out prudently. A mate should be like its fellow: look at a pair of shoes and boots. If one shoe of the two is tight on the foot, neither of the pair is of use to you. A pair in which one is small and the other large: have you ever seen a wolf paired with a forest lion? A pair of saddlebags does not sit right on a camel when one is empty and this one is stuffed full of goods. I go toward contentment with a strong heart; why do you go toward disgrace? The contented man, from sincerity and burning feeling, spoke in this manner with his wife until daybreak."

Updated 2026-06-28

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