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دفتر سوم - بخش ۱۴۳ - حکایت امیر و غلامش کی نماز باره بود وانس عظیم داشت در نماز و مناجات با حق / Book Three — Section 143 — The Story of the Amir and His Slave Who Was Devoted to Prayer and Who Had Great Intimacy in Prayer and Supplication with the Haqq

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میر شد محتاج گرمابه سحر
بانگ زد سنقر هلا بردار سر

طاس و مندیل و گل از التون بگیر
تا به گرمابه رویم ای ناگزیر

سنقر آن دم طاس و مندیلی نکو
برگرفت و رفت با او دو بدو

مسجدی بر ره بد و بانگ صلا
آمد اندر گوش سنقر در ملا

بود سنقر سخت مولع در نماز
گفت ای میر من ای بنده نواز

تو برین دکان زمانی صبر کن
تا گزارم فرض و خوانم لم یکن

چون امام و قوم بیرون آمدند
از نماز و وردها فارغ شدند

سنقر آنجا ماند تا نزدیک چاشت
میر سنقر را زمانی چشم داشت

گفت ای سنقر چرا نایی برون
گفت می نگذاردم این ذو فنون

صبر کن نک آمدم ای روشنی
نیستم غافل که در گوش منی

هفت نوبت صبر کرد و بانگ کرد
تاکه عاجز گشت از تیباش مرد

پاسخش این بود می نگذاردم
تا برون آیم هنوز ای محترم

گفت آخر مسجد اندر کس نماند
کیت وا می دارد آنجا کت نشاند

گفت آنک بسته استت از برون
بسته است او هم مرا در اندرون

آنک نگذارد ترا کایی درون
می بنگذارد مرا کایم برون

آنک نگذارد کزین سو پا نهی
او بدین سو بست پای این رهی

ماهیان را بحر نگذارد برون
خاکیان را بحر نگذارد درون

اصل ماهی آب و حیوان از گلست
حیله و تدبیر اینجا باطلست

قفل زفتست و گشاینده خدا
دست در تسلیم زن واندر رضا

ذره ذره گر شود مفتاحها
این گشایش نیست جز از کبریا

چون فراموشت شود تدبیر خویش
یابی آن بخت جوان از پیر خویش

چون فراموش خودی یادت کنند
بنده گشتی آنگه آزادت کنند

English translation

The amir needed the bathhouse at dawn; he called out: "Sunqur! Hey, raise your head!

Take basin, towel, and clay from the chest, that we may go to the bathhouse, O indispensable one!"

Sunqur at once took up a fine basin and towel and went with him, the two side by side.

There was a mosque on the way, and the call to prayer came into Sunqur's ears before the assembly.

Sunqur was deeply given to prayer; he said: "O my amir, O cherisher of servants,

wait at this shop for a moment, until I perform the obligatory prayer and recite Lam Yakun."

When the imam and congregation came out, done with prayers and litanies,

Sunqur stayed on there until near mid-morning; the amir waited for Sunqur a while.

He said: "O Sunqur, why do you not come out?" He said: "This Master of Wonders does not let me.

Wait — here I come, O light of my eyes! I am not unmindful, for you are in my ear."

Seven times he waited and called out, until the man grew weary of Sunqur's delay.

His answer was: "He does not let me come out yet, O honored one."

He said: "After all, no one remains in the mosque — who holds you there, who has seated you there?"

He said: "The One who has barred you from without has also barred me within.

The One who does not let you come inside does not let me come outside.

The One who does not let you set foot from this side has bound this wayfarer's feet to that side.

The sea does not let fish out; the sea does not let earth-dwellers in.

The origin of fish is water, and of animals is clay; cunning and contrivance are futile here.

The lock is heavy and the Opener is God; reach your hand into surrender and into ridā.

Even if keys were ground into atoms, this opening comes only from the Kibriyā.

When you forget your own contrivance, you will find that youthful fortune from your Pir.

When you forget yourself, they will remember you; you have become a slave — then they will set you free."

Updated 2026-06-30

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