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بخش ۱۲ - و امّا السّهلیّة / Section 12 - As for the Sahliyya

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تولای سهلیان به سهل عبدالله التستری رحمة الله علیه باشد و وی از محتشمان اهل تصوف بود و کبرای ایشان؛ چنان که ذکر وی گذشت، و در جمله اندر وقت خود سلطان وقت بود و از اهل حل و عقد اندر این طریقت. وی را براهین بسیار ظاهر بود که از ادراک حکایات آن عقل عاجز شود.
و طریقت وی اجتهاد و مجاهدت نفس و ریاضت است و مریدان را به مجاهدت به درجهٔ کمال رسانیدی.

و اندر حکایات معروف است که: مریدی را گفت: «جهد کن تا یک روز همه روز می گویی که: الله الله.» و دیگر روز و سدیگر همچنان تا بر آن خوکرد. گفت: «اکنون شب ها بدان پیوند.» چنان کرد تا چنان شد که اگر خود را به جای خواب دیدی همان می گفتی اندر خواب، تا آن عادت طبع وی شد. آنگاه گفت: «اکنون از این بازگرد به یادداشت مشغول شو.» تا چنان شد که همه روزگارش مستغرق آن گشت. قال بعضهم: «ذکر اللسان غفلة و ذکر القلب قربة.»
وقتی اندر خانه ای بود، چوبی از هوادرافتاد، بر سر وی آمد و بشکست و قطره های خون از سرش بر زمین می آمد نبشته پدید می شد که: «الله الله.»

و پرورش مریدان از روی مجاهدت و ریاضت طریق سهلیان است، و خدمت درویشان و حرمت ایشان طریق حمدونیان و به مراقبهٔ باطن طریق جنیدیان. رحمة الله علیهم اجمعین.
اما ریاضت و مجاهدت جمله خلاف کردن نفس باشد و تا کسی نفس را نشناخت ریاضت و مجاهدت وی را سود ندارد. اکنون من در حقیقت نفس و معرفت آن بیانی کنم تا معلوم شود. آنگاه بیان مذهب اندر مجاهدات و احکام آن فرونهم تا بر طالب معرفت هر دو پیدا شود و بالله التوفیق.

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The allegiance of the Sahlis is to Sahl Abdullah al-Tustari, may God's mercy be upon him. He was among the eminent people of Sufism and one of their great ones, as his mention has already passed; and, in sum, in his own time he was the sultan of the age and among the people of authority (ahl al-hall wa al-'aqd) in this path. He had many manifest proofs, such that the intellect is powerless to grasp the accounts of them.

His path is striving, struggle against the self (mujahada of the nafs), and ascetic discipline (riyada); and he would bring disciples to the degree of perfection through struggle.

And it is well known in the accounts that he said to a disciple: 'Strive so that for one whole day you keep saying: Allah, Allah.' And the next day, and the third likewise, until he became accustomed to it. He said: 'Now join the nights to it.' He did so until it reached the point that if he saw himself about to sleep he would say the same in his dream, until that habit became his nature. Then he said: 'Now turn back from this and busy yourself with mindful remembrance (yad-dasht).' Until it reached the point that all his time was immersed in it. One of them said: 'The remembrance of the tongue is heedlessness and the remembrance of the heart is nearness.'

Once he was in a house, and a piece of wood fell from above, struck his head and broke it, and drops of blood came from his head onto the ground, and there appeared written: 'Allah, Allah.'

And the nurturing of disciples by way of struggle and asceticism is the path of the Sahlis; serving the dervishes and honoring them is the path of the Hamduniyya; and by inner watchfulness (muraqaba) is the path of the Junaydiyya. May God's mercy be upon them all.

But ascetic discipline and struggle are, in their entirety, the opposing of the self; and until one has come to know the self, ascetic discipline and struggle will not benefit him. Now I will set forth an exposition of the reality of the self and the knowledge of it, so that it becomes clear. Then I will lay down the exposition of the doctrine concerning the struggles and their rulings, so that both become evident to the seeker of knowledge. And with God is success.

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