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دفتر ششم - بخش ۳۳ - حکایت در تقریر همین سخن / Book Six - Section 33 - A Tale in Confirmation of This Same Discourse

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آن یکی اسپی طلب کرد از امیر
گفت رو آن اسپ اشهب را بگیر

گفت آن را من نخواهم گفت چون
گفت او واپس روست و بس حرون

سخت پس پس می رود او سوی بن
گفت دمش را به سوی خانه کن

دم این استور نفست شهوتست
زین سبب پس پس رود آن خودپرست

شهوت او را که دم آمد ز بن
ای مبدل شهوت عقبیش کن

چون ببندی شهوتش را از رغیف
سر کند آن شهوت از عقل شریف

هم چو شاخی که ببری از درخت
سر کند قوت ز شاخ نیک بخت

چونک کردی دم او را آن طرف
گر رود پس پس رود تا مکتنف

حبذا اسپان رام پیش رو
نه سپس رو نه حرونی را گرو

گرم رو چون جسم موسی کلیم
تا به بحرینش چو پهنای گلیم

هست هفصدساله راه آن حقب
که بکرد او عزم در سیران حب

همت سیر تنش چون این بود
سیر جانش تا به علیین بود

شهسواران در سباقت تاختند
خربطان در پایگه انداختند

English translation

A certain man sought a horse from the Amir; He said, 'Go and take that grey horse.' He replied, 'I do not want that one.' He asked, 'Why?' He said, 'It goes backward and is very stubborn. It goes backward very strongly toward the rear.' He said, 'Turn its tail toward the house.' The tail of this beast, your carnal soul (nafs), is lust; For this reason, that self-worshiper goes backward. Its lust, which has become a tail from the root, O transformer, change it into lust for the Hereafter. When you restrain its lust from the loaf of bread (worldly desires), That lust will sprout from the noble intellect. Just like a branch that you prune from a tree, The strength will sprout from a fortunate branch. When you have turned its tail in that direction, If it goes backward, it will go toward the sanctuary. How excellent are the tame, forward-going horses, Neither going backward, nor pawned to stubbornness! Swift-paced like the body of Moses the Interlocutor (with God), So that the two seas became like the width of a carpet to him. That long period is a seven-hundred-year journey, For which he made a resolve in the journeying of love. Since the ambition of his body's journey was such, The journey of his soul reached to the highest heaven. The royal horsemen galloped in the race; The clumsy fools threw themselves down at the starting place.

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