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دفتر اول - بخش ۱۲۶ - مخلص ماجرای عرب و جفت او / Book One - Section 126 - The Moral of the Tale of the Arab and His Wife

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ماجرای مرد و زن را مخلصی
باز می‌جوید درون مخلصی

ماجرای مرد و زن افتاد نقل
آن مثال نفس خود می‌دان و عقل

این زن و مردی که نفسست و خرد
نیک بایستست بهر نیک و بد

وین دو بایسته درین خاکی‌سرا
روز و شب در جنگ و اندر ماجرا

زن همی‌خواهد حویج خانگاه
یعنی آب رو و نان و خوان و جاه

نفس همچون زن پی چاره‌گری
گاه خاکی گاه جوید سروری

عقل خود زین فکرها آگاه نیست
در دماغش جز غم الله نیست

گرچه سر قصه این دانه‌ست و دام
صورت قصه شنو اکنون تمام

گر بیان معنوی کافی شدی
خلق عالم عاطل و باطل بدی

گر محبت فکرت و معنیستی
صورت روزه و نمازت نیستی

هدیه‌های دوستان با همدگر
نیست اندر دوستی الا صور

تا گواهی داده باشد هدیه‌ها
بر محبتهای مضمر در خفا

زانک احسانهای ظاهر شاهدند
بر محبتهای سر ای ارجمند

شاهدت گه راست باشد گه دروغ
مست گاهی از می و گاهی ز دوغ

دوغ خورده مستیی پیدا کند
های هوی و سرگرانیها کند

آن مرایی در صیام و در صلاست
تا گمان آید که او مست ولاست

حاصل افعال برونی دیگرست
تا نشان باشد بر آنچ مضمرست

یا رب این تمییز ده ما را بخواست
تا شناسیم آن نشان کژ ز راست

حس را تمییز دانی چون شود
آنک حس ینظر بنور الله بود

ور اثر نبود سبب هم مظهرست
همچو خویشی کز محبت مخبرست

نبود آنک نور حقش شد امام
مر اثر را یا سببها را غلام

یا محبت در درون شعله زند
زفت گردد وز اثر فارغ کند

حاجتش نبود پی اعلام مهر
چون محبت نور خود زد بر سپهر

هست تفصیلات تا گردد تمام
این سخن لیکن بجو تو والسلام

گرچه شد معنی درین صورت پدید
صورت از معنی غریبست و بعید

در دلالت همچو آبند و درخت
چون بماهیت روی دورند سخت

ترک ماهیات و خاصیات گو
شرح کن احوال آن دو ماه‌رو

English translation

The heart of a sincere one again seeks a moral for the tale of the man and woman. The tale of the man and woman has been recounted: know that example as your own nafs and intellect. This woman and man, which are the nafs and reason, are truly necessary for good and evil. These two necessary ones, in this earthen house, are day and night in battle and dispute. The woman keeps wanting the needs of the household, that is, reputation, bread, table, and rank. The nafs, like the woman, pursues contrivance, sometimes earthly, sometimes seeking mastery. Reason itself is unaware of these thoughts; in its mind there is nothing but care for God. Although the secret of the story is this grain and trap, now hear the outward form of the story in full. If spiritual exposition alone were sufficient, the creation of the world would be idle and vain. If love were only thought and meaning, there would be no form of your fasting and prayer. The gifts friends exchange with one another are, in friendship, nothing but forms, so that the gifts may testify to loves hidden in secret. For outward acts of kindness are witnesses to secret loves, O honored one. Your witness is sometimes true and sometimes false: one is drunk sometimes from wine and sometimes from buttermilk. One who has drunk buttermilk displays a kind of drunkenness, making noise and heaviness of head. The show-off is in fasting and prayer so that it may be supposed that he is drunk with divine friendship. The purpose of outward acts is something else: that they be signs of what is hidden. Lord, give us this discernment as we ask, so that we may know the crooked sign from the straight. Do you know how sense gains discernment? When sense sees by the light of God. And if there is no effect, the cause too is a manifestation, like kinship, which reports love. The one whose guide has become the light of God is not a slave to effects or causes. Or love flames up within, grows great, and makes one free of effects. It has no need to announce affection, since love has cast its own light upon the sky. There are details by which this discourse would be completed, but seek them yourself, and peace. Although meaning has appeared in this form, form is strange to and far from meaning. In indication they are like water and tree; when you go to essence, they are very far apart. Leave aside essences and properties; speak of the states of those two moon-faced ones.

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