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مثنوی معنوی: دفتر سوم / Masnavi: Book Three
دفتر سوم - بخش ۲۱۸ - سر آنک بی‌مراد بازگشتن رسول علیه السلام از حدیبیه حق تعالی لقب آن فتح کرد کی انا فتحنا کی به صورت غلق بود و به معنی فتح چنانک شکستن مشک به ظاهر شکستن است و به معنی درست کردنست مشکی او را و تکمیل فواید اوست / Book Three - Section 218 - The Secret of Why God Almighty Named the Disappointed Return of the Messenger, Peace Be Upon Him, from Hudaybiyyah a Victory (Verily We Have Granted You a Manifest Victory), Which in Appearance Was a Closure but in Meaning a Victory, Just as Br

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دفتر سوم - بخش ۲۱۹ - تفسیر این خبر کی مصطفی علیه السلام فرمود لا تفضلونی علی یونس بن متی / Book Three – Section 219 – Commentary on the Words of Mustafa, Peace Be Upon Him: 'Do Not Prefer Me Over Yunus Son of Matta'

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گفت پیغامبر که معراج مرا
نیست بر معراج یونس اجتبا

آن من بر چرخ و آن او نشیب
زانک قرب حق برونست از حسیب

قرب نه بالا نه پستی رفتنست
قرب حق از حبس هستی رستنست

نیست را چه جای بالا است و زیر
نیست را نه زود و نه دورست و دیر

کارگاه و گنج حق در نیستیست
غرهٔ هستی چه دانی نیست چیست

حاصل این اشکست ایشان ای کیا
می نماند هیچ با اشکست ما

آنچنان شادند در ذل و تلف
همچو ما در وقت اقبال و شرف

برگ بی برگی همه اقطاع اوست
فقر و خواریش افتخارست و علوست

آن یکی گفت ار چنانست آن ندید
چون بخندید او که ما را بسته دید

چونک او مبدل شدست و شادیش
نیست زین زندان و زین آزادیش

پس به قهر دشمنان چون شاد شد
چون ازین فتح و ظفر پر باد شد

شاد شد جانش که بر شیران نر
یافت آسان نصرت و دست و ظفر

پس بدانستیم کو آزاد نیست
جز به دنیا دلخوش و دلشاد نیست

ورنه چون خندد که اهل آن جهان
بر بد و نیک اند مشفق مهربان

این بمنگیدند در زیر زبان
آن اسیران با هم اندر بحث آن

تا موکل نشنود بر ما جهد
خود سخن در گوش آن سلطان برد

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Book Three – Section 219 – Commentary on the Words of Mustafa, Peace Be Upon Him: "Do Not Prefer Me Over Yunus Son of Matta"

The Prophet said: "My mi'raj Has no preference over the mi'raj of Yunus. Mine was upward to the heavens, his was downward— For nearness to God is beyond all reckoning.

Nearness is not going high or going low; Nearness to God is being freed from the prison of existence. For Nothingness, what place is there for up or down? For Nothingness, there is no near or far, no soon or late.

The workshop and treasure of God are in Nothingness; O you deceived by existence, what do you know of what Nothingness is?

The sum of their defeat, O master, Bears no resemblance whatsoever to our defeat. They are as joyful in humiliation and ruin As we are in times of fortune and honor.

The provision of provisionlessness is all his fief; His poverty and abasement are his pride and exaltation.

One of them said: "If he is such, why did he not see? Why did he laugh when he saw us in chains? Since he has been transformed, his joy Is not from this prison or from this freedom. Then why did his soul rejoice at the defeat of enemies? Why was he so puffed up with this victory and triumph?

His soul rejoiced because against the male lions He easily gained victory and power and triumph. So we knew that he is not free— He is content and glad only in this world. For otherwise, how would he laugh? For the people of that other world Are compassionate and kind toward both good and bad."

The prisoners murmured this under their tongues, Discussing it among themselves— So that the guardian would not hear and strive against them; But the speech itself carried to the ear of that Sultan.

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