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دفتر سوم - بخش ۷۸ - جزع ناکردن شیخی بر مرگ فرزندان خود / Book Three - Section 78 - A Sheikh Not Mourning the Death of His Own Children

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بود شیخی رهنمایی پیش ازین
آسمانی شمع بر روی زمین

چون پیمبر درمیان امتان
در گشای روضهٔ دار الجنان

گفت پیغامبر که شیخ رفته پیش
چون نبی باشد میان قوم خویش

یک صباحی گفتش اهل بیت او
سخت دل چونی بگو ای نیک خو

ما ز مرگ و هجر فرزندان تو
نوحه می داریم با پشت دوتو

تو نمی گریی نمی زاری چرا
یا که رحمت نیست در دل ای کیا

چون تورا رحمی نباشد در درون
پس چه اومیدست مان از تو کنون

ما باومید تویم ای پیشوا
که بنگذاری تو ما را در فنا

چون بیارایند روز حشر تخت
خود شفیع ما توی آن روز سخت

در چنان روز و شب بی زینهار
ما به اکرام تویم اومیدوار

دست ما و دامن تست آن زمان
که نماند هیچ مجرم را امان

گفت پیغامبر که روز رستخیز
کی گذارم مجرمان را اشک ریز

من شفیع عاصیان باشم بجان
تا رهانمشان ز اشکنجهٔ گران

عاصیان واهل کبایر را بجهد
وا رهانم از عتاب نقض عهد

صالحان امتم خود فارغ اند
از شفاعتهای من روز گزند

بلک ایشان را شفاعتها بود
گفتشان چون حکم نافذ می رود

هیچ وازر وزر غیری بر نداشت
من نیم وازر خدایم بر فراشت

آنک بی وزرست شیخست ای جوان
در قبول حق چو اندر کف کمان

شیخ کی بد پیر یعنی مو سپید
معنی این مو بدان ای کژ امید

هست آن موی سیه هستی او
تا ز هستی اش نماند تای مو

چونک هستی اش نماند پیر اوست
گر سیه مو باشد او یا خود دوموست

هست آن موی سیه وصف بشر
نیست آن مو موی ریش و موی سر

عیسی اندر مهد بر دارد نفیر
که جوان ناگشته ما شیخیم و پیر

گر رهید از بعض اوصاف بشر
شیخ نبود کهل باشد ای پسر

چون یکی موی سیه کان وصف ماست
نیست بر وی شیخ و مقبول خداست

چون بود مویش سپید ار با خودست
او نه پیرست و نه خاص ایزدست

ور سر مویی ز وصفش باقیست
او نه از عرش است او آفاقیست

English translation

There was once a sheikh, a guide, before this: a heavenly candle upon the face of the earth, like a prophet among communities, opening the gate of the garden of the Abode of Paradise. The Prophet said, “The sheikh who has gone ahead is like a prophet among his own people.” One morning his household said to him: “Tell us, O good-natured one, how are you so hard-hearted? We are mourning, bent double, over the death and separation of your children. Why do you neither weep nor wail? Or is there no mercy in your heart, O lord? If you have no mercy within, what hope can we now have from you? We have our hope in you, O leader, that you will not leave us in annihilation. When they adorn the throne on the Day of Resurrection, you yourself will be our intercessor on that hard day. On such a day and night without protection, we hope in the honor shown to you. Our hand will be on your skirt then, when no sinner has any safety left.” The Prophet said: “On the Day of Resurrection, how could I leave sinners tearful? I shall be the intercessor of the disobedient with my soul, so that I may free them from heavy torment. With effort I shall free the disobedient and those guilty of major sins from the rebuke for breaking the covenant. The righteous of my community are themselves free of my intercessions on the day of harm. Rather, they themselves will have intercessions; their speech proceeds like an effective decree.” He said to them: “No bearer of a burden has taken up another’s burden. I am not a bearer of burdens; God has exalted me. The one who is without burden is the sheikh, O youth, accepted by God like a bow in the hand. Who is the sheikh? Pir means ‘white-haired’: learn the meaning of this hair, O crooked in hope. That black hair is his existence, until not even a hair-tip of his existence remains. When his existence is gone, he is the Pir, whether his hair is black or whether he has only two hairs. That black hair is the attribute of being human; that hair is not the hair of beard or head. Jesus in the cradle raises the cry: ‘Before becoming young, we are sheikh and pir.’ If he is freed from only some human attributes, he is not a sheikh; he is middle-aged, O son. When not one black hair, which is our attribute, remains on him, he is sheikh and accepted by God. If his hair is white but he remains with himself, he is neither Pir nor one specially close to God. And if a hair-tip of his attribute remains, he is not of the Throne; he belongs to the horizons.”

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