1Cademy - دفتر اول - بخش ۱۴۸ - آمدن مهمان پیش یوسف علیه‌السلام و تقاضا کردن یوسف علیه‌السلام ازو تحفه و ارمغان / Book One - Section 148 - The Coming of a Guest to Joseph, Peace Be Upon Him, and Joseph, Peace Be Upon Him, Asking Him for a Present and a Gift

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دفتر اول - بخش ۱۴۸ - آمدن مهمان پیش یوسف علیه‌السلام و تقاضا کردن یوسف علیه‌السلام ازو تحفه و ارمغان / Book One - Section 148 - The Coming of a Guest to Joseph, Peace Be Upon Him, and Joseph, Peace Be Upon Him, Asking Him for a Present and a Gift

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آمد از آفاق یار مهربان
یوسف صدیق را شد میهمان

کاشنا بودند وقت کودکی
بر وسادهٔ آشنایی متکی

یاد دادش جور اخوان و حسد
گفت کان زنجیر بود و ما اسد

عار نبود شیر را از سلسله
نیست ما را از قضای حق گله

شیر را بر گردن ار زنجیر بود
بر همه زنجیرسازان میر بود

گفت چون بودی ز زندان و ز چاه
گفت همچون در محاق و کاست ماه

در محاق ار ماه نو گردد دوتا
نی در آخر بدر گردد بر سما؟

گرچه دردانه به هاون کوفتند
نور چشم و دل شد و بیند بلند

گندمی را زیر خاک انداختند
پس ز خاکش خوشه ها بر ساختند

بار دیگر کوفتندش ز آسیا
قیمتش افزود و نان شد جان فزا

باز نان را زیر دندان کوفتند
گشت عقل و جان و فهم هوشمند

باز آن جان چونک محو عشق گشت
یعجب الزراع آمد بعد کشت

این سخن پایان ندارد باز گرد
تا که با یوسف چه گفت آن نیک مرد

بعد قصه گفتنش گفت ای فلان
هین چه آوردی تو ما را ارمغان

بر در یاران تهی دست آمدن
هست بی گندم سوی طاحون شدن

حق تعالی خلق را گوید بحشر
ارمغان کو از برای روز نشر

جئتمونا و فرادی بی نوا
هم بدان سان که خلقناکم کذا

هین چه آوردید دست آویز را
ارمغانی روز رستاخیز را

یا امید بازگشتنتان نبود
وعدهٔ امروز باطلتان نمود

منکری مهمانیش را از خری
پس ز مطبخ خاک و خاکستر بری

ور نه ای منکر چنین دست تهی
در در آن دوست چون پا می نهی

اندکی صرفه بکن از خواب و خور
ارمغان بهر ملاقاتش ببر

شو قلیل النوم مما یهجعون
باش در اسحار از یستغفرون

اندکی جنبش بکن همچون جنین
تا ببخشندت حواس نوربین

وز جهان چون رحم، بیرون روی
از زمین در عرصهٔ واسع شوی

آنک ارض الله واسع گفته اند
عرصه ای دان انبیا را بس بلند

دل نگردد تنگ زان عرصهٔ فراخ
نخل تر آنجا نگردد خشک شاخ

حاملی تو مر حواست را کنون
کند و مانده می شوی و سرنگون

چونک محمولی نه حامل وقت خواب
ماندگی رفت و شدی بی رنج و تاب

چاشنیی دان تو حال خواب را
پیش محمولی حال اولیا

اولیا اصحاب کهفند ای عنود
در قیام و در تقلب هم رقود

می کشدشان بی تکلف در فعال
بی خبر ذات الیمین ذات الشمال

چیست آن ذات الیمین؟ فعل حسن
چیست آن ذات الشمال؟ اشغال تن

می رود این هر دو کار از انبیا
بی خبر زین هر دو ایشان چون صدا

گر صدایت بشنواند خیر و شر
ذات که باشد ز هر دو بی خبر

English translation

A kind friend came from distant lands and became the guest of Joseph the Truthful.

They had been acquainted in childhood, reclining on the cushion of old familiarity.

He reminded him of the brothers' cruelty and envy; Joseph said: "That was a chain, and I was a lion."

The lion has no shame from a chain — we have no complaint against God's decree.

If the lion has a chain around his neck, he is still lord over all the chain-makers.

He asked: "How were you in the prison and the pit?" He said: "Like the moon in conjunction and in waning."

If in conjunction the new moon bends double, does it not become the full moon in the sky at last?

Though the pearl was pounded in the mortar, it became the light of eye and heart and sees on high.

A grain of wheat was cast beneath the earth — then from that earth, ears of grain were raised.

Again it was pounded in the mill — its value increased and it became bread, life-giving.

Again the bread was pounded under the teeth — it became intellect and soul and keen understanding.

And when that soul was annihilated in love — "it amazes the sowers" came after the sowing.

This speech has no end — return, to see what the good man said to Joseph.

After telling his story, Joseph said: "O such a one, come now, what have you brought us as a gift?

To come empty-handed to the door of friends is like going to the mill without wheat.

God Most High will say to His creation at the Resurrection: 'Where is the gift for the Day of Gathering?'

'You have come to Us alone and penniless, just as We created you — even so.'

'Come, what have you brought as a means of approach, as a gift for the Day of Resurrection?

Or did you have no hope of return? Did the promise of this day seem false to you?'"

If you deny His hospitality out of foolishness, you carry away from the kitchen only dust and ash.

But if you do not deny it, why do you step at the door of that Friend with such empty hands?

Save a little from sleep and eating; carry a gift for the meeting with Him.

Become "few in sleep" of those who lie slumbering; be in the pre-dawn hours among those who seek forgiveness.

Stir a little, like the embryo, so that you may be granted senses that see by light.

And when you depart from the world as from a womb, you will pass from earth into a vast expanse.

That which is called "God's earth is vast" — know it as a field most lofty for the prophets.

The heart is not constricted in that wide expanse; the fresh palm tree there will not have dry branches.

Now you are the bearer of your senses — you grow slow and weary and fall headlong.

When you are carried, not the carrier, in sleep, weariness departs and you are free of toil and pain.

Know the state of sleep as a foretaste of the carried state of the saints.

The saints are the Companions of the Cave, O stubborn one — in their waking and their turning, they are still asleep.

He draws them effortlessly into action, unaware: to the right side, to the left side.

What is that "right side"? The beautiful act. What is that "left side"? The occupations of the body.

Both these works proceed from the prophets — they are unaware of both, like an echo.

If the echo makes you hear good and evil, the Essence is unaware of both.

Updated 2026-06-30

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