1Cademy - دفتر اول - بخش ۱۷۲ - گفتن امیر المؤمنین علی کرم الله وجهه با قرین خود کی چون خدو انداختی در روی من نفس من جنبید و اخلاص عمل نماند مانع کشتن تو آن شد / Book One - Section 172 - The Commander of the Faithful Ali, May God Honor His Face, Saying to His Adversary That When You Spat in My Face, My Self Was Stirred and Sincerity of Action Did Not Remain; That Became the Obstacle to Killing You

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مثنوی معنوی: دفتر اول / Masnavi: Book One

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دفتر اول - بخش ۱۷۲ - گفتن امیر المؤمنین علی کرم الله وجهه با قرین خود کی چون خدو انداختی در روی من نفس من جنبید و اخلاص عمل نماند مانع کشتن تو آن شد / Book One - Section 172 - The Commander of the Faithful Ali, May God Honor His Face, Saying to His Adversary That 'When You Spat in My Face, My Self Was Stirred and Sincerity of Action Did Not Remain; That Became the Obstacle to Killing You'

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گفت امیر المؤمنین با آن جوان
که به هنگام نبرد ای پهلوان

چون خدو انداختی در روی من
نفس جنبید و تبه شد خوی من

نیم بهر حق شد و نیمی هوا
شرکت اندر کار حق نبود روا

تو نگاریدهٔ کف مولیستی
آن حقی کردهٔ من نیستی

نقش حق را هم به امر حق شکن
بر زجاجهٔ دوست سنگ دوست زن

گبر این بشنید و نوری شد پدید
در دل او تا که زناری برید

گفت من تخم جفا می کاشتم
من ترا نوعی دگر پنداشتم

تو ترازوی احدخو بوده ای
بل زبانهٔ هر ترازو بوده ای

تو تبار و اصل و خویشم بوده ای
تو فروغ شمع کیشم بوده ای

من غلام آن چراغ چشم جو
که چراغت روشنی پذرفت ازو

من غلام موج آن دریای نور
که چنین گوهر بر آرد در ظهور

عرضه کن بر من شهادت را که من
مر ترا دیدم سرافراز زمن

قرب پنجه کس ز خویش و قوم او
عاشقانه سوی دین کردند رو

او به تیغ حلم چندین حلق را
وا خرید از تیغ و چندین خلق را

تیغ حلم از تیغ آهن تیزتر
بل ز صد لشکر ظفر انگیزتر

ای دریغا لقمه ای دو خورده شد
جوشش فکرت از آن افسرده شد

گندمی خورشید آدم را کسوف
چون ذنب شعشاع بدری را خسوف

اینت لطف دل که از یک مشت گل
ماه او چون می شود پروین گسل

نان چو معنی بود خوردش سود بود
چونک صورت گشت انگیزد جحود

همچو خار سبز کاشتر می خورد
زان خورش صد نفع و لذت می برد

چونک آن سبزیش رفت و خشک گشت
چون همان را می خورد اشتر ز دشت

می دراند کام و لنجش ای دریغ
کانچنان ورد مربی گشت تیغ

نان چو معنی بود، بود آن خار سبز
چونک صورت شد کنون خشکست و گبز

تو بدان عادت که او را پیش ازین
خورده بودی ای وجود نازنین

بر همان بو می خوری این خشک را
بعد از آن کامیخت معنی با ثری

گشت خاک آمیز و خشک و گوشت بر
زان گیاه اکنون بپرهیز ای شتر

سخت خاک آلود می آید سخن
آب تیره شد سر چه بند کن

تا خدایش باز صاف و خوش کند
او که تیره کرد هم صافش کند

صبر آرد آرزو را نه شتاب
صبر کن والله اعلم بالصواب

English translation

The Commander of the Faithful said to that youth: "At the time of battle, O champion, when you spat in my face, my self was stirred and my disposition was spoiled. Half was for God and half was passion; partnership in God's work is not proper. You are the image traced by the hand of the Lord; you are God's making, not something for me to make away with. Break God's image only by God's command; strike the Friend's glass with the Friend's stone." The unbeliever heard this, and a light appeared in his heart, so that he cut his zunnar. He said: "I was sowing seeds of cruelty; I had imagined you as something else. You were a scale with the character of the One; rather, you were the tongue-pointer of every scale. You were my stock, root, and kin; you were the radiance of the candle of my faith. I am the slave of that eye-seeking lamp from which your lamp received light. I am the slave of the wave of that sea of light which brings such a pearl into manifestation. Offer me the shahada, for I have seen you raised above myself." Nearly fifty people of his kin and people turned lovingly toward the religion. With the sword of forbearance he bought back so many throats from the sword, and so many people. The sword of forbearance is sharper than the iron sword; indeed, it brings victory more than a hundred armies. Alas, a morsel or two was eaten, and the boiling of thought was cooled by it. A grain of wheat eclipsed Adam's sun, as a tail eclipses the shining full moon. Behold the subtlety of the heart: from one handful of clay, how its moon becomes one that scatters the Pleiades. When bread was meaning, eating it was beneficial; when it became form, it stirred denial. It is like the green thorn the camel eats and gains a hundred benefits and pleasures from that food. But when its greenness has gone and it has become dry, if the camel eats that same thing from the desert, it tears its palate and lips, alas; that nurturing fodder has become a blade. When bread was meaning, it was that green thorn; when it became form, now it is dry and coarse. You, from the habit by which you had eaten it before, O dear being, eat this dry thing by that same scent after meaning has mixed with dust. It has become dust-mixed, dry, and flesh-cutting; now beware of that plant, O camel. Speech is coming very dust-laden; the water has become turbid, close the head of the well, so that God may make it clear and sweet again. He who made it turbid will also make it clear. Patience brings the wish, not haste. Be patient, and God knows best what is right.

Updated 2026-06-30

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