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مثنوی معنوی: دفتر اول / Masnavi: Book One

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دفتر اول - بخش ۸۸ - تعظیم ساحران مر موسی را علیه‌السلام کی چه می‌فرمایی اول تو اندازی عصا / Book One - Section 88 - The Reverence of the Sorcerers for Moses, Peace Be Upon Him, Asking: 'What Do You Command? Will You Cast Your Staff First?'

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ساحران در عهد فرعون لعین
چون مری کردند با موسی بکین

لیک موسی را مقدم داشتند
ساحران او را مکرم داشتند

زانک گفتندش که فرمان آن تست
گر همی خواهی عصا تو فکن نخست

گفت نی اول شما ای ساحران
افکنید ان مکرها را در میان

این قدر تعظیم دینشان را خرید
کز مری آن دست و پاهاشان برید

ساحران چون حق او بشناختند
دست و پا در جرم آن در باختند

لقمه و نکته ست کامل را حلال
تو نه ای کامل مخور می باش لال

چون تو گوشی او زبان نی جنس تو
گوشها را حق بفرمود انصتوا

کودک اول چون بزاید شیرنوش
مدتی خامش بود او جمله گوش

مدتی می بایدش لب دوختن
از سخن، تا او سخن آموختن

ور نباشد گوش و تی تی می کند
خویشتن را گنگ گیتی می کند

کر اصلی کش نبد ز آغاز گوش
لال باشد، کی کند در نطق جوش؟

زانکه اول سمع باید نطق را
سوی منطق از ره سمع اندر آ

وادخلوا الابیات من ابوابها
واطلبوا الاغراض فی اسبابها

نطق کان موقوف راه سمع نیست
جز که نطق خالق بی طمع نیست

مبدعست او تابع استاد نی
مسند جمله ورا اسناد نی

باقیان هم در حرف هم در مقال
تابع استاد و محتاج مثال

زین سخن گر نیستی بیگانه ای
دلق و اشکی گیر در ویرانه ای

زانک آدم زان عتاب از اشک رست
اشک تر باشد دم توبه پرست

بهر گریه آمد آدم بر زمین
تا بود گریان و نالان و حزین

آدم از فردوس و از بالای هفت
پای ماچان از برای عذر رفت

گر ز پشت آدمی وز صلب او
در طلب می باش هم در طلب او

ز آتش دل و آب دیده نقل ساز
بوستان از ابر و خورشیدست باز

تو چه دانی ذوق آب دیدگان
عاشق نانی تو چون نادیدگان

گر تو این انبان ز نان خالی کنی
پر ز گوهرهای اجلالی کنی

طفل جان از شیر شیطان باز کن
بعد از آنش با ملک انباز کن

تا تو تاریک و ملول و تیره ای
دان که با دیو لعین همشیره ای

لقمه ای کو نور افزود و کمال
آن بود آورده از کسب حلال

روغنی کاید چراغ ما کشد
آب خوانش چون چراغی را کشد

علم و حکمت زاید از لقمهٔ حلال
عشق و رقت آید از لقمهٔ حلال

چون ز لقمه تو حسد بینی و دام
جهل و غفلت زاید آن را دان حرام

هیچ گندم کاری و جو بر دهد
دیده ای اسپی که کرهٔ خر دهد

لقمه تخمست و برش اندیشه ها
لقمه بحر و گوهرش اندیشه ها

زاید از لقمهٔ حلال اندر دهان
میل خدمت عزم رفتن آن جهان

English translation

The sorcerers, in the age of accursed Pharaoh, when they contended with Moses in enmity, nevertheless gave Moses precedence; the sorcerers honored him. For they said to him, “The command is yours: if you wish, cast down your staff first.” He said, “No, you first, O sorcerers; cast those tricks of yours into the midst.” That much reverence purchased their religion, so that because of that contention their hands and feet were cut off. When the sorcerers recognized his truth, they sacrificed hands and feet as the penalty for that offense. A morsel and a subtle point are lawful for the perfect one; you are not perfect, so do not eat: remain silent. Since you are the ear and he is the tongue, not your kind, God commanded the ears, “Be silent and listen.” When a child is first born and drinks milk, for a time it is silent, all ear. For a time it must sew its lips shut against speech until it learns speech. But if it has no ear and merely says ti-ti, it makes itself mute to the world. One originally deaf, who had no ear from the beginning, will be mute; how could he surge into speech? For hearing must come first for speech; enter toward speech by the path of hearing. Enter houses by their doors, and seek aims through their causes. Speech that is not dependent on the road of hearing is nothing but the speech of the need-free Creator. He is the Originator, not the follower of a teacher; the seat of all authority is His, and no authority is ascribed over Him. All the rest, in letters and in discourse, follow a teacher and need an example. If you are not a stranger to this speech, take a dervish cloak and tears in some ruin. For Adam was saved from that reproach by tears; wet tears are the breath of the repentance-worshipper. Adam came to earth for weeping, so that he might be weeping, lamenting, and sorrowful. Adam went from Paradise and above the seven heavens, kissing the feet, to seek pardon. If you are from Adam’s back and loins, be in seeking, in that same seeking of his. Make provisions from the heart’s fire and the eye’s water; the garden is opened by cloud and sun. What do you know of the taste of the water of eyes? You are a lover of bread, like the unseeing. If you empty this bread-sack, you will fill it with jewels of majesty. Wean the child of the soul from Satan’s milk; after that, make it partner with the angel. As long as you are dark, weary, and murky, know that you are a sister of the accursed demon. The morsel that increases light and perfection is the one brought from lawful earning. Oil that comes and extinguishes our lamp: call it water, since it extinguishes a lamp. Knowledge and wisdom are born from the lawful morsel; love and tenderness come from the lawful morsel. When from a morsel you see envy and snares, and ignorance and heedlessness are born, know it to be forbidden. Have you ever sown wheat and had it yield barley? Have you seen a horse give birth to a donkey’s foal? The morsel is seed, and its fruit is thoughts; the morsel is the sea, and its pearl is thoughts. From the lawful morsel in the mouth are born the desire for service and the resolve to go to that world.

Updated 2026-07-04

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