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مثنوی معنوی: دفتر سوم / Masnavi: Book Three
دفتر سوم - بخش ۷۲ - مضطرب شدن فقیر نذر کرده به‌کندن امرود از درخت و گوشمال حق رسیدن بی مهلت / Book Three - Section 72 - The Agitation of the Poor Man Who Had Vowed Not to Pluck Pears from the Tree and the Immediate Arrival of Divine Chastisement

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دفتر سوم - بخش ۷۳ - متهم کردن آن شیخ را با دزدان وبریدن دستش را / Book Three - Section 73 - Accusing That Sheikh Along With the Thieves and Cutting Off His Hand

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بیست از دزدان بدند آنجا و بیش
بخش می کردند مسروقات خویش

شحنه را غماز آگه کرده بود
مردم شحنه بر افتادند زود

هم بدان جا پای چپ و دست راست
جمله را ببرید و غوغایی بخاست

دست زاهد هم بریده شد غلط
پاش را می خواست هم کردن سقط

در زمان آمد سواری بس گزین
بانگ بر زد بر عوان کای سگ ببین

این فلان شیخست از ابدال خدا
دست او را تو چرا کردی جدا

آن عوان بدرید جامه تیز رفت
پیش شحنه داد آگاهیش تفت

شحنه آمد پا برهنه عذرخواه
که ندانستم خدا بر من گواه

هین بحل کن مر مرا زین کار زشت
ای کریم و سرور اهل بهشت

گفت می دانم سبب این نیش را
می شناسم من گناه خویش را

من شکستم حرمت ایمان او
پس یمینم برد دادستان او

من شکستم عهد و دانستم بدست
تا رسید آن شومی جرات به دست

دست ما و پای ما و مغز و پوست
باد ای والی فدای حکم دوست

قسم من بود این تو را کردم حلال
تو ندانستی تو را نبود وبال

و آنک او دانست او فرمان رواست
با خدا سامان پیچیدن کجاست

ای بسا مرغی پریده دانه جو
که بریده حلق او هم حلق او

ای بسا مرغی ز معده وز مغص
بر کنار بام محبوس قفس

ای بسا ماهی در آب دوردست
گشته از حرص گلو ماخوذ شست

ای بسا مستور در پرده بده
شومی فرج و گلو رسوا شده

ای بسا قاضی حبر نیک خو
از گلو و رشوتی او زردرو

بلک در هاروت و ماروت آن شراب
از عروج چرخشان شد سد باب

بایزید از بهر این کرد احتراز
دید در خود کاهلی اندر نماز

از سبب اندیشه کرد آن ذو لباب
دید علت خوردن بسیار از آب

گفت تا سالی نخواهم خورد آب
آنچنان کرد و خدایش داد تاب

این کمینه جهد او بد بهر دین
گشت او سلطان و قطب العارفین

چون بریده شد برای حلق دست
مرد زاهد را در شکوی ببست

شیخ اقطع گشت نامش پیش خلق
کرد معروفش بدین آفات حلق

English translation

Twenty thieves and more were there, dividing their stolen goods. An informer had alerted the constable, and the constable's men fell upon them at once. There on the spot, the left foot and right hand of all of them were severed, and a great uproar arose. The ascetic's hand too was cut off by mistake; they also meant to cut off his foot. In that instant a most excellent horseman arrived and cried out to the officer: 'O dog, look! This is such-and-such Shaykh, one of the Abdāl of God— why have you severed his hand?' The officer tore his garment and went off in haste, and swiftly brought this news to the constable. The constable came barefoot, seeking pardon: 'I did not know—God is my witness. Come, absolve me of this foul deed, O noble one, O lord of the people of paradise!' He said: 'I know the cause of this sting; I recognize my own sin. I violated the sanctity of His faith, so His advocate took my right hand. I broke the covenant, and I knew it was bad, until the ill-omen of that audacity reached my hand. Our hand and foot and brain and skin— let them all, O governor, be sacrificed to the command of the Beloved. This portion was mine; I have absolved you of it. You did not know; no burden falls upon you. But He who knew is the sovereign— where is there any room for twisting matters with God? O how many a bird has flown seeking grain whose throat has been cut—and through its very throat! O how many a bird, through belly and gut-cramp, sits imprisoned in a cage on the roof's edge! O how many a fish in distant waters has been caught on the hook through the greed of its throat! O how many a veiled woman behind the curtain has been disgraced by the ill-omen of the private parts and throat! O how many a qāḍī and ḥibr of good repute has grown pallid through his throat and through bribery! Nay, in the case of Hārūt and Mārūt, that wine became a barrier to their ascent through the celestial spheres. Bāyazīd guarded against this for this very reason— he found in himself sluggishness in prayer. That man of inner essence probed the cause and found the reason to be drinking too much water. He said: "I shall drink no water for a year." He did so, and God gave him the strength to endure. This was his least effort for the sake of religion; he became the Sultan and Quṭb al-ʿĀrifīn. Since the hand was cut for the sake of the throat, it sealed the mouth of the ascetic in complaint. The Shaykh became known as al-Aqṭaʿ among the people; the afflictions of the throat made him thus renowned.

Updated 2026-06-30

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