1Cademy - بخش ۱۳۷ - اشارت به تقسیم جوع به اختیاری و اضطراری / Section 137 - Allusion to the Division of Hunger into Voluntary and Involuntary

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Haft Awrang

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بخش ۱۳۷ - اشارت به تقسیم جوع به اختیاری و اضطراری / Section 137 - Allusion to the Division of Hunger into Voluntary and Involuntary

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جوع آیین سالک راه است
شیوه عارفان آگاه است

جوع سالک به اختیار بود
جوع عارف به اضطرار بود

می نماید رونده مرتاض
از مطاعم به قصد خویش اعراض

تا دلش خوی با خوشی نکند
نفسش آهنگ سرکشی نکند

راهش آخر به مقصد انجامد
چون به مقصد رسد بیارامد

مرد عارف چو یافت لذت قرب
نه به اکلش فتد کشش نه به شرب

اکل و شربش چه باشد انس به حق
دایم او در حق است مستغرق

لقمه از خوان یطعمش بینی
شربت از چشمه سار یسقینی

جان او در تجلی صمدی
دارد از حق تسلی ابدی

حاجت خوردن از تهی شکمیست
مر صمد را تو خود بگو چه کمیست

گر صمد را کسی کند تعریف
فهو مالم یکن له تجویف

وصف تجویف خاص امکان است
پری او ز فیض رحمان است

گر نه رحمان کند وجود دهی
ماند از معنی وجود تهی

ذات رحمان چو هست عین وجود
خالی از کجا تواند بود

English translation

Hunger is the custom of the wayfarer of the path, It is the way of the aware gnostics. The wayfarer's hunger is by choice, The gnostic's hunger is by necessity. The practicing traveler displays A deliberate turning away from foods, So that his heart does not become accustomed to pleasure, And his carnal soul does not incline toward rebellion. His path eventually leads to the destination; When he reaches the destination, he finds rest. When the gnostic finds the pleasure of proximity, He feels no attraction to eating or drinking. What are his eating and drinking? Intimacy with the Truth, He is perpetually submerged in the Truth. You see his morsel from the table of 'He feeds me,' And his drink from the spring of 'He gives me drink.' His soul, in the Eternal manifestation, Receives eternal consolation from the Truth. The need to eat arises from an empty stomach; Tell me, what lack is there for the Eternal? If anyone defines the Eternal, 'He is that which has no cavity.' The attribute of having a cavity is specific to contingent existence, Its fullness comes from the grace of the All-Merciful. If the All-Merciful does not grant existence, It remains empty of the meaning of existence. Since the essence of the All-Merciful is existence itself, How could it ever be empty?

Updated 2026-07-07

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