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مثنوی معنوی: دفتر اول / Masnavi: Book One

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دفتر اول - بخش ۱۳۰ - در نمد دوختن زن عرب سبوی آب باران را و مهر نهادن بر وی از غایت اعتقاد عرب / Book One - Section 130 - The Arab Woman Sewing the Jug of Rainwater in Felt and Sealing It Out of the Utmost Belief of the Arab

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مرد گفت آری سبو را سر ببند
هین که این هدیه ست ما را سودمند

در نمد در دوز تو این کوزه را
تا گشاید شه به هدیه روزه را

کاین چنین اندر همه آفاق نیست
جز رحیق و مایه ی اذواق نیست

زانک ایشان ز آبهای تلخ و شور
دایما پر علت اند و نیم کور

مرغ کاب شور باشد مسکنش
او چه داند جای آب روشنش

ای که اندر چشمه ی شورست جات
تو چه دانی شط و جیحون و فرات

ای تو نارسته ازین فانی رباط
تو چه دانی محو و سکر و انبساط

ور بدانی نقلت از آب و جدست
پیش تو این نامها چون ابجدست

ابجد و هوز چه فاش است و پدید
بر همه طفلان و معنی بس بعید

پس سبو برداشت آن مرد عرب
در سفر شد می کشیدش روز و شب

بر سبو لرزان بد از آفات دهر
هم کشیدش از بیابان تا به شهر

زن مصلا باز کرده از نیاز
رب سلم ورد کرده در نماز

که نگه دار آب ما را از خسان
یا رب آن گوهر بدان دریا رسان

گرچه شویم آگهست و پر فنست
لیک گوهر را هزاران دشمنست

خود چه باشد گوهر، آب کوثرست
قطره ای زینست کاصل گوهرست

از دعاهای زن و زاری او
وز غم مرد و گران باری او

سالم از دزدان و از آسیب سنگ
برد تا دار الخلافه بی درنگ

دید درگاهی پر از انعامها
اهل حاجت گستریده دامها

دم بدم هر سوی صاحب حاجتی
یافته زان در عطا و خلعتی

بهر گبر و مؤمن و زیبا و زشت
همچو خورشید و مطر نی چون بهشت

دید قومی در نظر آراسته
قوم دیگر منتظر بر خاسته

خاص و عامه از سلیمان تا بمور
زنده گشته چون جهان از نفخ صور

اهل صورت در جواهر بافته
اهل معنی بحر معنی یافته

آنک بی همت چه با همت شده
وانک با همت چه با نعمت شده

English translation

The man said, 'Yes, seal the jug, Behold, this gift will be profitable to us. Sew up this jug in felt, So the king may break his fast with this gift. For there is no water like this in all the world; It is nothing but pure wine and the source of delight. Because they, from drinking bitter and salty waters, Are constantly diseased and half-blind. The bird whose dwelling is in salty water, What does it know of the place of clear water? O you whose place is in the salty spring, What do you know of the Shatt (Tigris), the Oxus, and the Euphrates? O you who have not escaped this mortal caravanserai, What do you know of spiritual effacement, intoxication, and expansion? And if you do know, your knowledge is merely by hearsay from ancestors; To you, these names are just like the alphabet. How familiar and obvious are abjad and hawwaz To all children, yet their true meaning is very remote!' Then the Arab man took up the jug; He set out on the journey, carrying it day and night. Trembling for the jug against the calamities of time, He carried it from the desert all the way to the city. The woman had unrolled her prayer mat in supplication, Making 'O Lord, keep him safe' her litany in prayer: Saying, 'Protect our water from the wicked; O Lord, deliver that pearl to that ocean! Even though my husband is cautious and full of skill, Yet the pearl has a thousand enemies.' What indeed is the pearl? It is the water of Kawthar; A mere drop of this is the essence of the pearl. Through the prayers of the woman and her lamentation, And the anxiety of the man and his heavy burden, Safe from thieves and the strike of stones, He brought it to the Caliph's court without delay. He saw a court full of bounties, Where the needy had spread their nets. Moment by moment, from every side, someone with a need Received a gift and a robe of honor from that door. For the infidel and the believer, the beautiful and the ugly, Like the sun and the rain, not like Paradise. He saw one group adorned in the royal gaze, And another group standing up in anticipation. Elite and common, from Solomon to the ant, Were brought to life like the world at the sounding of the trumpet. The people of outward form were draped in jewels, While the people of inner meaning had found the sea of meaning. The one without aspiration had become ambitious, And the one with aspiration had been granted abundant blessings.

Updated 2026-06-25

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