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بخش ۶ - اما القصاریة / Section 6 - As for the Qassariyya

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تولا قصاریان به ابی صالح، حمدون بن احمدبن عمارةالقصار رضی الله عنه کنند و وی را از علمای بزرگ بوده است و سادات این طریقت و طریق وی اظهار و نشر ملامت بوده است، و اندر فنون معاملت، او را کلام عالی است.
وی گفتی، رضی الله عنه: «باید که تا علم حق تعالی به تو نیکوتر از آن باشد که علم خلق؛ یعنی باید که اندر خلأ با حق تعالی معاملت نیکوتر از آن کنی که اندر ملأ با خلق؛ که حجاب اعظم از حق، شغل دل توست با خلق.»

و به باب الملامة اندر ابتدای کتاب بیاورده ام، بدان اختصار کردم مر ترک تطویل را.
و از نوادر حکایات وی یکی آن است که گوید: روزی اندر جویبار حیرهٔ نیسابور می رفتم. نوح نام عیاری بود به فتوت معروف و جمله عیاران نسابور در فرمان وی بودندی، وی را اندر راه بدیدم. گفتم: «یا نوح، جوانمردی چه چیز است؟» گفت: «جوانمردی من خواهی یا از آن تو؟» گفتم: «هر دو بگوی.» گفت: «جوانمردی من آن است که این قبا بیرون کنم و مرقعه ای بپوشم و معاملات آن برزم تا صوفی شوم، و از شرم خلق اندر آن جامه از معصیت بپرهیزم و جوانمردی تو آن که مرقعه بیرون کنی تا تو به خلق، و خلق به تو فتنه نگردند. پس جوانمردی من حفظ شریعت بودبر اظهار، و از آن تو حفظ حقیقت بر اسرار.» و این اصلی قوی است. و بالله العون و التوفیق.

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The Qassariyya give their allegiance to Abu Salih, Hamdun ibn Ahmad ibn Umara al-Qassar (may God be pleased with him). He was one of the great scholars and among the masters of this path, and his way was the manifesting and spreading of malama (self-blame); in the arts of spiritual practice his discourse is lofty.

He used to say (may God be pleased with him): "It is fitting that God Most High's knowledge of you be better than the creatures' knowledge of you; that is, in solitude with God Most High you should conduct yourself better than you do in public among people, for the greatest veil from God is your heart's preoccupation with the creatures."

And I have already presented this in the Chapter of Malama at the beginning of the book, so I have been brief here to avoid prolixity.

And among his rare anecdotes is one in which he says: One day I was walking in the Juybar of Hira in Nishapur. There was a young chivalrous man (ayyar) named Nuh, renowned for futuwwa (chivalry), and all the ayyars of Nishapur were under his command; I met him on the road. I said: "O Nuh, what is chivalry (javanmardi)?" He said: "Do you want my chivalry or yours?" I said: "Tell both." He said: "My chivalry is that I take off this fine robe (qaba) and put on a patched frock (muraqqa) and practice its conduct so that I become a Sufi, and out of shame before people I abstain from sin while in that garment; and your chivalry is that you take off the patched frock so that neither you are tempted by people nor people by you. So my chivalry is the preservation of the sharia through outward display, and yours is the preservation of the truth (haqiqa) through secrecy." And this is a strong principle. And with God is help and success.

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