1Cademy - دفتر اول - بخش ۱۴۳ - امتحان کردن شیر گرگ را و گفتن کی پیش آی ای گرگ بخش کن صیدها را میان ما / Book One - Section 143 - The Lion Testing the Wolf and Saying, Come Forward, O Wolf, Divide the Prey Between Us

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مثنوی معنوی: دفتر اول / Masnavi: Book One
دفتر اول - بخش ۱۴۲ - رفتن گرگ و روباه در خدمت شیر به شکار / Book One - Section 142 - The Going of the Wolf and the Fox in the Service of the Lion to Hunt

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دفتر اول - بخش ۱۴۳ - امتحان کردن شیر گرگ را و گفتن کی پیش آی ای گرگ بخش کن صیدها را میان ما / Book One - Section 143 - The Lion Testing the Wolf and Saying, 'Come Forward, O Wolf, Divide the Prey Between Us'

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گفت شیر ای گرگ این را بخش کن
معدلت را نو کن ای گرگ کهن

نایب من باش در قسمت گری
تا پدید آید که تو چه گوهری

گفت ای شه گاو وحشی بخش تست
آن بزرگ و تو بزرگ و زفت و چست

بز مرا که بز میانه ست و وسط
روبها خرگوش بستان بی غلط

شیر گفت ای گرگ چون گفتی بگو
چونک من باشم تو گویی ما و تو

گرگ خود چه سگ بود کو خویش دید
پیش چون من شیر بی مثل و ندید

گفت پیش آ ای خری کو خود خرید
پیشش آمد پنجه زد او را درید

چون ندیدش مغز و تدبیر رشید
در سیاست پوستش از سر کشید

گفت چون دید منت ز خود نبرد
این چنین جان را بباید زار مرد

چون نبودی فانی اندر پیش من
فضل آمد مر ترا گردن زدن

کل شیء هالک جز وجه او
چون نه ای در وجه او هستی مجو

هر که اندر وجه ما باشد فنا
کل شیء هالک نبود جزا

زانک در الاست او از لا گذشت
هر که در الاست او فانی نگشت

هر که بر در او من و ما می زند
رد بابست او و بر لا می تند

English translation

The lion said, “O wolf, divide this; renew justice, old wolf. Be my deputy in apportioning, so that it may become clear what substance you are made of.” He said, “O king, the wild ox is your share: it is large, and you are large, huge, and swift. The goat is mine, since the goat is middle-sized and intermediate; fox, take the hare, without error.” The lion said, “O wolf, what did you say? When I am here, do you speak of ‘we’ and ‘you’? What sort of dog is a wolf, that he should see himself before a lion like me, peerless and unmatched?” He said, “Come forward, you ass who has valued yourself.” He came before him; the lion struck him with his paw and tore him apart. Since he saw in him no brain or rightly guided judgment, he stripped the skin from his head as punishment. He said, “Because he saw me and did not rid himself of selfhood, such a soul must die miserably. Since you were not annihilated before me, beheading came to you as grace. Everything is perishing except His Face; when you are not in His Face, do not seek existence. Whoever is annihilated in Our Face, ‘everything is perishing’ is not his portion. For, in the ‘except,’ he has passed beyond the ‘no’; whoever has not become annihilated in His ‘except’—whoever knocks at His door with ‘I’ and ‘we’—is rejected from the door and keeps weaving in the ‘no.’”

Updated 2026-06-30

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