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دفتر سوم - بخش ۷۱ - تشبیه بند و دام قضا به صورت پنهان به اثر پیدا / Book Three - Section 71 - Likening the Bond and Snare of Destiny, Hidden in Form, to its Visible Effect

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بینی اندر دلق مهتر زاده ای
سر برهنه در بلا افتاده ای

در هوای نابکاری سوخته
اقمشه و املاک خود بفروخته

خان و مان رفته شده بدنام و خوار
کام دشمن می رود ادبیروار

زاهدی بیند بگوید ای کیا
همتی می دار از بهر خدا

کاندرین ادبار زشت افتاده ام
مال و زر و نعمت از کف داده ام

همتی تا بوک من زین وا رهم
زین گل تیره بود که بر جهم

این دعا می خواهد او از عام و خاص
کالخلاص و الخلاص و الخلاص

دست باز و پای باز و بند نی
نه موکل بر سرش نه آهنی

از کدامین بند می جویی خلاص
وز کدامین حبس می جویی مناص

بند تقدیر و قضای مختفی
کی نبیند آن به جز جان صفی

گرچه پیدا نیست آن در مکمنست
بتر از زندان و بند آهنست

زانک آهنگر مر آن را بشکند
حفره گر هم خشت زندان بر کند

ای عجب این بند پنهان گران
عاجز از تکسیر آن آهنگران

دیدن آن بند احمد را رسد
بر گلوی بسته حبل من مسد

دید بر پشت عیال بولهب
تنگ هیزم گفت حمالهٔ حطب

حبل و هیزم را جز او چشمی ندید
که پدید آید برو هر ناپدید

باقیانش جمله تاویلی کنند
کین ز بیهوشیست و ایشان هوشمند

لیک از تاثیر آن پشتش دوتو
گشته و نالان شده او پیش تو

که دعایی همتی تا وا رهم
تا ازین بند نهان بیرون جهم

آنک بیند این علامتها پدید
چون نداند او شقی را از سعید

داند و پوشد بامر ذوالجلال
که نباشد کشف راز حق حلال

این سخن پایان ندارد آن فقیر
از مجاعت شد زبون و تن اسیر

English translation

You see, in a patched cloak, a nobleman's son, bareheaded, fallen into affliction; burned up in desire for wrongdoing, having sold his fabrics and estates. His house and household are gone; he has become disgraced and lowly; the enemy gets his wish, while he goes along ill-starred. He sees an ascetic and says, 'O noble one, lend spiritual resolve for God's sake, for I have fallen into this ugly adversity; wealth, gold, and blessing have slipped from my hand. Give spiritual resolve, that perhaps I may be freed from this, that I may leap out of this dark mire.' He asks this prayer from common and elite alike: 'deliverance, deliverance, deliverance.' His hands are open, his feet are open, and there is no fetter; no guard over his head, no iron chain. From what bond do you seek release, and from what prison do you seek escape? The bond of hidden predestination and decree: who sees that except a purified soul? Though it is not visible, it lies in ambush; it is worse than prison and iron fetter. For a blacksmith can break iron, and a digger can pull out the prison bricks. How strange, this heavy hidden bond: blacksmiths are helpless to break it. Seeing that bond belongs to Ahmad: on the bound neck, a rope of palm fiber. He saw on Abu Lahab's wife's back the tight load of firewood and called her 'carrier of firewood.' No eye but his saw the rope and the firewood, for every unseen thing appears to him. All the rest interpret it away, saying this is unconsciousness and that they are the conscious ones. Yet from its effect that person's back has bent double, and the person has come before you moaning: 'A prayer, spiritual resolve, that I may be freed, that I may leap out from this hidden bond.' The one who sees these signs manifest: how would he not know the wretched from the blessed? He knows, and conceals it by command of the Lord of Majesty, for disclosure of God's secret is not lawful. This discourse has no end; that poor man, from hunger, became abased, and his body captive.

Updated 2026-06-30

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