1Cademy - دفتر سوم - بخش ۵۰ - توفیق میان این دو حدیث کی الرضا بالکفر کفر و حدیث دیگر من لم یرض بقضایی فلیطلب ربا سوای / Book Three - Section 50 - Reconciliation Between These Two Hadiths That Consent to Unbelief is Unbelief and the Other Hadith Whoever is Not Content With My Decree Let Him Seek a Lord Other Than Me

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دفتر سوم - بخش ۸۳ - صفت بعضی اولیا کی راضی‌اند باحکام و لابه نکنند کی این حکم را بگردان / Book Three - Section 83 - The Attribute of Some Saints Who Are Content With the Decrees and Do Not Supplicate That He Avert This Decree
مثنوی معنوی: دفتر سوم / Masnavi: Book Three

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دفتر سوم - بخش ۵۰ - توفیق میان این دو حدیث کی الرضا بالکفر کفر و حدیث دیگر من لم یرض بقضایی فلیطلب ربا سوای / Book Three - Section 50 - Reconciliation Between These Two Hadiths That 'Consent to Unbelief is Unbelief' and the Other Hadith 'Whoever is Not Content With My Decree Let Him Seek a Lord Other Than Me'

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دی سؤالی کرد سایل مر مرا
زانک عاشق بود او بر ماجرا

گفت نکتهٔ الرضا بالکفر کفر
این پیمبر گفت و گفت اوست مهر

باز فرمود او که اندر هر قضا
مر مسلمان را رضا باید رضا

نه قضای حق بود کفر و نفاق
گر بدین راضی شوم باشد شقاق

ور نیم راضی بود آن هم زیان
پس چه چاره باشدم اندر میان

گفتمش این کفر مقضی نه قضاست
هست آثار قضا این کفر راست

پس قضا را خواجه از مقضی بدان
تا شکالت دفع گردد در زمان

راضیم در کفر زان رو که قضاست
نه ازین رو که نزاع و خبث ماست

کفر از روی قضا خود کفر نیست
حق را کافر مخوان اینجا مه ایست

کفر جهلست و قضای کفر علم
هر دو کی یک باشد آخر حلم و خلم

زشتی خط زشتی نقاش نیست
بلک از وی زشت را بنمودنیست

قوت نقاش باشد آنک او
هم تواند زشت کردن هم نکو

گر کشانم بحث این را من بساز
تا سؤال و تا جواب آید دراز

ذوق نکتهٔ عشق از من می رود
نقش خدمت نقش دیگر می شود

English translation

Yesterday a questioner put a question to me, for he was in love with the discourse.

He said: the subtlety of "al-riḍā bi'l-kufr kufr" — the Prophet spoke this, and his word is a seal.

Yet he also commanded that in every decree the Muslim must have acceptance — yes, acceptance.

But were unbelief and hypocrisy the decree of God? If I consent to this, it would be schism.

And if I do not consent, that too is a loss. So what remedy have I in between?

I said to him: this unbelief is the decreed (maqḍī), not the decree (qaḍā); this unbelief is truly the effects (āthār) of the decree.

So distinguish the decree (qaḍā) from the decreed (maqḍī), O master, and your difficulty will be resolved at once.

I consent to unbelief from that angle — because it is the decree — not from this angle — that it is our own quarrel and wickedness.

Unbelief, from the side of the decree, is not unbelief itself. Do not call the Real (Ḥaqq) an unbeliever — do not linger here.

Unbelief is ignorance, but the decree of unbelief is knowledge. How can the two ever be one? — consider forbearance (ḥilm) and boorishness (khilm).

The ugliness of a line is not the ugliness of the painter; rather, through him the ugly is made manifest.

The power of the painter is precisely this: that he can render both the ugly and the beautiful.

If I drag this discussion along and extend it, question and answer would run long.

The taste of love's subtlety is leaving me, the form of service becomes a different form.

Updated 2026-06-30

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