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مثنوی معنوی: دفتر دوم / Masnavi: Book Two

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دفتر دوم - بخش ۵۶ - به حیلت در سخن آوردن سایل آن بزرگ را کی خود را دیوانه ساخته بود / Book Two - Section 56 - Bringing into Conversation by a Stratagem the Questioner of That Great One Who Had Made Himself Mad

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آن یکی می‌گفت خواهم عاقلی
مشورت آرم بدو در مشکلی

آن یکی گفتش که اندر شهر ما
نیست عاقل جز که آن مجنون‌نما

بر نیی گشته سواره نک فلان
می‌دواند در میان کودکان

صاحب رایست و آتش‌پاره‌ای
آسمان قدرست و اخترباره‌ای

فر او کروبیان را جان شدست
او درین دیوانگی پنهان شدست

لیک هر دیوانه را جان نشمری
سر منه گوساله را چون سامری

چون ولیی آشکارا با تو گفت
صد هزاران غیب و اسرار نهفت

مر ترا آن فهم و آن دانش نبود
وا ندانستی تو سرگین را ز عود

از جنون خود را ولی چون پرده ساخت
مر ورا ای کور کی خواهی شناخت

گر ترا بازست آن دیدهٔ یقین
زیر هر سنگی یکی سرهنگ بین

پیش آن چشمی که باز و رهبرست
هر گلیمی را کلیمی در برست

مر ولی را هم ولی شهره کند
هر که را او خواست با بهره کند

کس نداند از خرد او را شناخت
چونک او مر خویش را دیوانه ساخت

چون بدزدد دزد بینایی ز کور
هیچ یابد دزد را او در عبور

کور نشناسد که دزد او که بود
گرچه خود بر وی زند دزد عنود

چون گزد سگ کور صاحب‌ژنده را
کی شناسد آن سگ درنده را

English translation

One person was saying, “I want a wise man, so that I may bring a difficulty to him for counsel.”

Another said to him, “In our city there is no wise one except that mad-seeming man.

There is so-and-so, mounted on a reed; look, he is running about among the children.

He is a man of judgment and a piece of fire, sky-high in rank and scattering stars.

His splendor has become life to the cherubim; he has hidden himself in this madness.

But do not reckon every madman to be such a soul; do not bow your head to a calf in Samiri-fashion.

When a saint openly told you hundreds of thousands of unseen things and hidden mysteries,

you did not have that understanding and knowledge; you could not distinguish dung from aloeswood.

When the saint has made madness a veil for himself, O blind one, how will you recognize him?

If that eye of certainty is open in you, see a commander beneath every stone.

Before the eye that is open and guiding, every coarse cloak has a Moses within it.

Only a saint makes the saint renowned; whomever he wishes, he makes endowed with a share.

No one can know him by intellect, since he has made himself mad.

When a sighted thief robs a blind man, will the blind man ever find the thief as he passes?

The blind man does not know who his thief was, even though that hostile thief himself strikes him.

When a dog bites the blind rag-wearer, how can he recognize that ravening dog?

Updated 2026-05-17

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