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دفتر ششم - بخش ۲۲ - تفسیر قوله علیه‌السلام موتوا قبل ان تموتوا بمیر ای دوست پیش از مرگ اگر می زندگی خواهی کی ادریس از چنین مردن بهشتی گشت پیش از ما / Book Six - Section 22 - Commentary on the saying of the Prophet, peace be upon him, 'Die before you die'; die, O friend, before death if you desire life, for Idris through such a death became a dweller of Paradise before us

متن و ترجمه / Text and Translation

جان بسی کندی و اندر پرده ایزانک مردن اصل بد ناورده ای
You have agonized much, yet remain behind the veil,
Because dying was the root, and you have not brought it.
تا نمیری نیست جان کندن تمامبی کمال نردبان نایی به بام
Until you die, the agony is not complete;
Without the ladder being whole, you will not reach the roof.
چون ز صد پایه دو پایه کم بودبام را کوشنده نامحرم بود
When two rungs are missing from a hundred,
The striver remains forbidden from the roof.
چون رسن یک گز ز صد گز کم بودآب اندر دلو از چه کی رود
When the rope is one yard short of a hundred,
How will the water rise from the well in the bucket?
غرق این کشتی نیابی ای امیرتا بننهی اندرو من الاخیر
You will not find the sinking of this ship, O emir,
Until you place in it a 'maund' of the ultimate weight.
من آخر اصل دان کو طارقستکشتی وسواس و غی را غارقست
Know the ultimate maund as the fundamental knocker,
Which is the sinker of the ship of obsession and error.
آفتاب گنبد ازرق شودکشتی هش چونک مستغرق شود
It becomes the sun of the azure dome,
When the ship of consciousness becomes submerged.
چون نمردی گشت جان کندن درازمات شو در صبح ای شمع طراز
Since you did not die, your agony became prolonged;
Be checkmated in the dawn, O candle of Taraz.
تا نگشتند اختران ما نهاندانک پنهانست خورشید جهان
Until our stars have become hidden,
Know that the sun of the world is concealed.
گرز بر خود زن منی در هم شکنزانک پنبهٔ گوش آمد چشم تن
Strike the mace upon yourself, shatter 'I-ness',
For the eye of the body has become the cotton of the ear.
گرز بر خود می زنی خود ای دنیعکس تست اندر فعالم این منی
If you strike the mace upon yourself, O base one,
This 'I-ness' in my action is your own reflection.
عکس خود در صورت من دیده ایدر قتال خویش بر جوشیده ای
You have seen your own reflection in my face,
You have boiled up in battle against yourself.
هم چو آن شیری که در چه شد فروعکس خود را خصم خود پنداشت او
Like that lion who went down into the well,
He thought his own reflection was his enemy.
نفی ضد هست باشد بی شکیتا ز ضد ضد را بدانی اندکی
The negation of the opposite is existence, without a doubt,
So that you may know a little of an opposite through its opposite.
این زمان جز نفی ضد اعلام نیستاندرین نشات دمی بی دام نیست
At this time, there is nothing but the declaration of the negation of opposites,
In this emergence (world), there is not a moment without a trap.
بی حجابت باید آن ای ذو لبابمرگ را بگزین و بر دران حجاب
If you want it without a veil, O possessor of intellect,
Choose death and tear up the veil.
نه چنان مرگی که در گوری رویمرگ تبدیلی که در نوری روی
Not such a death that you go into a grave,
A death of transformation, that you go into a light.
مرد بالغ گشت آن بچگی بمردرومیی شد صبغت زنگی سترد
The man became an adult, that childhood died;
He became a Roman (fair), the color of the Zang (dark) was erased.
خاک زر شد هیات خاکی نماندغم فرج شد خار غمناکی نماند
The earth became gold, its earthy appearance did not remain;
Sorrow became joy, no thorn of sorrow remained.
مصطفی زین گفت کای اسرارجومرده را خواهی که بینی زنده تو
Mustafa (Muhammad) said of this: O seeker of secrets,
If you wish to see a dead man living,
می رود چون زندگان بر خاکدانمرده و جانش شده بر آسمان
Walking upon the dust-heap like the living,
Dead, while his spirit has gone to heaven;
جانش را این دم به بالا مسکنیستگر بمیرد روح او را نقل نیست
His spirit at this moment has a dwelling on high,
If he dies, his soul does not undergo transfer.
زانک پیش از مرگ او کردست نقلاین بمردن فهم آید نه به عقل
Because before his death, he has made the transfer;
This is understood through dying, not through intellect.
نقل باشد نه چو نقل جان عامهم چو نقلی از مقامی تا مقام
A transfer it is, but not like the transfer of the common soul,
Rather like a transfer from one station to another.
هرکه خواهد که ببیند بر زمینمرده ای را می رود ظاهر چنین
Whoever wishes to see on the earth
A dead man walking openly like this,
مر ابوبکر تقی را گو ببینشد ز صدیقی امیرالمحشرین
Tell him to look at Abu Bakr the pious,
Who through truthfulness became the prince of those resurrected.
اندرین نشات نگر صدیق راتا به حشر افزون کنی تصدیق را
In this emergence, look at the Truthful One (Abu Bakr),
So that you may increase your belief for the resurrection.
پس محمد صد قیامت بود نقدزانک حل شد در فنای حل و عقد
Thus, Muhammad was a hundred resurrections in cash (present),
Because he was dissolved in the annihilation of binding and loosening.
زادهٔ ثانیست احمد در جهانصد قیامت بود او اندر عیان
Ahmad is a second birth in the world;
He was a hundred resurrections in plain sight.
زو قیامت را همی پرسیده اندای قیامت تا قیامت راه چند
Hence they kept asking him about the resurrection:
'O Resurrection, how long is the way to the resurrection?'
با زبان حال می گفتی بسیکه ز محشر حشر را پرسد کسی
With the tongue of his state he often said,
'Who asks the gathering about the resurrection?'
بهر این گفت آن رسول خوش پیامرمز موتوا قبل موت یا کرام
For this reason, that Messenger of good tidings said,
The secret of 'Die before death,' O noble ones.
همچنانکه مرده ام من قبل موتزان طرف آورده ام این صیت و صوت
'Just as I have died before death,
I have brought this fame and voice from that side.'
پس قیامت شو قیامت را ببیندیدن هر چیز را شرطست این
Therefore, become the resurrection, see the resurrection;
This is the condition for seeing everything.
تا نگردی او ندانی اش تمامخواه آن انوار باشد یا ظلام
Until you become it, you will not know it entirely,
Whether it be those lights or shadows.
عقل گردی عقل را دانی کمالعشق گردی عشق را دانی ذبال
Become intellect, you will know the perfection of intellect;
Become love, you will know the wick of love.
گفتمی برهان این دعوی مبینگر بدی ادراک اندر خورد این
I would have spoken the clear proof of this claim,
If there were an understanding suited to this.
هست انجیر این طرف بسیار و خوارگر رسد مرغی قنق انجیرخوار
There are figs in this region, abundant and cheap,
If a fig-eating bird arrived as a guest.
در همه عالم اگر مرد و زننددم به دم در نزع و اندر مردنند
In the whole world, whether they be men or women,
Moment by moment they are in the throes of death and dying.
آن سخنشان را وصیتها شمرکه پدر گوید در آن دم با پسر
Consider their words as the testaments
That a father speaks at that moment to his son.
تا بروید عبرت و رحمت بدینتا ببرد بیخ بغض و رشک و کین
So that admonition and mercy may grow from this,
So that it may cut the root of hatred, envy, and malice.
تو بدان نیت نگر در اقرباتا ز نزع او نسوزد دل ترا
With that intention, look at your relatives,
So that your heart may not burn from their death agony.
کل آت آت آن را نقد داندوست را در نزع و اندر فقد دان
'Every coming thing is coming,' consider it as cash (present);
Consider the friend in death agony and in loss.
ور غرضها زین نظر گردد حجیباین غرضها را برون افکن ز جیب
And if selfish motives become a veil from this sight,
Throw these motives out of your pocket.
ور نیاری خشک بر عجزی مایستدانکه با عاجز گزیده معجزیست
And if you cannot bring them dry (easily), do not stand upon helplessness;
Know that the helpless one has chosen the miracle-worker.
عجز زنجیریست زنجیرت نهادچشم در زنجیرنه باید گشاد
Helplessness is a chain, he put the chain on you;
He placed an eye in the chain, it must be opened.
پس تضرع کن که ای هادی زیستباز بودم بسته گشتم این ز چیست
Then entreat, saying, 'O Guide of life,
I was a falcon, I became bound, what is this from?
سخت تر افشرده ام در شر قدمکه لفی خسرم ز قهرت دم به دم
I have pressed my foot harder in evil,
So that 'Indeed I am in loss' moment by moment from Your wrath.
از نصیحتهای تو کر بوده امبت شکن دعوی و بت گر بوده ام
I have been deaf to Your advice,
I have been an idol-breaker in claim, but an idol-maker (in reality).'
یاد صنعت فرض تر یا یاد مرگمرگ مانند خزان تو اصل برگ
Is the remembrance of a craft more obligatory, or the remembrance of death?
Death is like autumn, you are the essence of the leaf.
سالها این مرگ طبلک می زندگوش تو بیگاه جنبش می کند
For years this death has been beating its little drum,
Your ear makes a movement unseasonably (too late).
گوید اندر نزع از جان آه مرگاین زمان کردت ز خود آگاه مرگ
It says in the death agony, an 'Ah!' of death from the soul,
At this time, death made you aware of yourself.
این گلوی مرگ از نعره گرفتطبل او بشکافت از ضرب شگفت
This throat of death became hoarse from shouting,
Its drum burst from the astonishing beating.
در دقایق خویش را در بافتیرمز مردن این زمان در یافتی
You wove yourself into subtleties;
You finally grasped the secret of dying at this time!

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