1Cademy - دفتر سوم - بخش ۱۱۲ - عزم کردن داود علیه السلام به خواندن خلق بدان صحرا کی راز آشکارا کند و حجتها را همه قطع کند / Book Three - Section 112 - The resolve of David, peace be upon him, to call the people to that plain so that he might reveal the secret and cut off all arguments

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مثنوی معنوی: دفتر سوم / Masnavi: Book Three
دفتر سوم - بخش ۱۱۱ - حکم کردن داود بر صاحب گاو کی جمله مال خود را به وی ده / Book Three - Section 111 - David passing judgment on the owner of the cow that he should give all his wealth to him

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دفتر سوم - بخش ۱۱۲ - عزم کردن داود علیه السلام به خواندن خلق بدان صحرا کی راز آشکارا کند و حجتها را همه قطع کند / Book Three - Section 112 - The resolve of David, peace be upon him, to call the people to that plain so that he might reveal the secret and cut off all arguments

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گفت ای یاران زمان آن رسید
کان سر مکتوم او گردد پدید

جمله برخیزید تا بیرون رویم
تا بر آن سر نهان واقف شویم

در فلان صحرا درختی هست زفت
شاخهااش انبه و بسیار و چفت

سخت راسخ خیمه گاه و میخ او
بوی خون می آیدم از بیخ او

خون شدست اندر بن آن خوش درخت
خواجه را کشتست این منحوس بخت

تا کنون حلم خدا پوشید آن
آخر از ناشکری آن قلتبان

که عیال خواجه را روزی ندید
نه به نوروز و نه موسمهای عید

بی نوایان را به یک لقمه نجست
یاد ناورد او ز حقهای نخست

تا کنون از بهر یک گاو این لعین
می زند فرزند او را در زمین

او بخود برداشت پرده از گناه
ورنه می پوشید جرمش را اله

کافر و فاسق درین دور گزند
پرده خود را به خود بر می درند

ظلم مستورست در اسرار جان
می نهد ظالم به پیش مردمان

که ببینیدم که دارم شاخها
گاو دوزخ را ببینید از ملا

English translation

He said, “O companions, the time has come for his concealed secret to become manifest. All of you rise, so that we may go out and become aware of that hidden secret. In such-and-such a plain there is a huge tree, its branches dense, many, and interlocked; its tent-ground and peg are very firmly fixed. I smell blood from its root. Blood has entered the base of that fair tree; this ill-starred wretch has killed the master. Until now God’s forbearance concealed that, but at last, because of that scoundrel’s ingratitude, since he gave no sustenance to the master’s household, neither at Nowruz nor at the feast seasons, and did not seek out the destitute with even one morsel, nor remember the former obligations, until now, for the sake of one cow, this accursed one has been striking his son to the ground. He himself lifted the veil from the sin; otherwise God would have covered his crime. The unbeliever and the sinner, in this harmful age, tear their own veil by themselves. Oppression is hidden in the secrets of the soul; the oppressor sets it before the people, saying: ‘Look at me, for I have horns; behold the cow of Hell in the assembly.’”

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