1Cademy - دفتر اول - بخش ۱۲ - داستان آن پادشاه جهود کی نصرانیان را می‌کشت از بهر تعصب / Book 1 - Section 12 - The Tale of the Jewish King Who Killed Christians Out of Bigotry

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دفتر اول - بخش ۱۲ - داستان آن پادشاه جهود کی نصرانیان را می‌کشت از بهر تعصب / Book 1 - Section 12 - The Tale of the Jewish King Who Killed Christians Out of Bigotry

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بود شاهی در جهودان ظلم ساز
دشمن عیسی و نصرانی گداز

عهد عیسی بود و نوبت آن او
جان موسی او و موسی جان او

شاه احول کرد در راه خدا
آن دو دمساز خدایی را جدا

گفت استاد احولی را کاندر آ
رو برون آر از وثاق آن شیشه را

گفت احول: زان دو شیشه من کدام
پیش تو آرم؟ بکن شرح تمام

گفت استاد: آن، دو شیشه نیست، رو
احولی بگذار و افزون بین مشو

گفت: ای استا، مرا طعنه مزن
گفت استا: زان دو، یک را در شکن

چون یکی بشکست، هر دو شد ز چشم
مرد، احول گردد از میلان و خشم

شیشه یک بود و به چشمش دو نمود
چون شکست او شیشه را، دیگر نبود

خشم و شهوت مرد را احول کند
ز استقامت روح را مبدل کند

چون غرض آمد، هنر پوشیده شد
صد حجاب از دل به سوی دیده شد

چون دهد قاضی به دل رشوت قرار
کی شناسد ظالم از مظلوم زار

شاه، از حقد جهودانه چنان
گشت احول، کالامان یا رب امان

صد هزاران مؤمن مظلوم کشت
که پناهم دین موسی را و پشت

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There was a king among the Jews, a maker of oppression, an enemy of Jesus and a destroyer of Christians. It was the age of Jesus, and the turn was his; he was the soul of Moses, and Moses was his soul. The cross-eyed king separated, in God's path, those two divine companions. A master said to a cross-eyed man: Go in and bring that bottle out of the chamber. The cross-eyed man said: Which of those two bottles shall I bring to you? Explain it fully. The master said: There are not two bottles; go, leave double vision and do not see more than is there. He said: Master, do not taunt me. The master said: Break one of those two. When he broke one, both vanished from sight; a man becomes cross-eyed from bias and anger. The bottle was one, but it appeared as two to his eye; when he broke the bottle, there was no other. Anger and desire make a man cross-eyed and turn the soul away from straightness. When self-interest enters, excellence is hidden; a hundred veils pass from the heart toward the eye. When a judge lets a bribe settle in his heart, how can he know the oppressor from the wretched oppressed? From Jewish rancor the king became so cross-eyed: protection, O Lord, protection! He killed hundreds of thousands of oppressed believers, claiming: I am the refuge and support of the religion of Moses.

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