1Cademy - بخش ۴۵ - معالجه کردن ابوعلی سینا آن صاحب ماخولیا را که طبیبان از معالجه وی عاجز مانده بودند / Section 45 - Avicennas Treatment of the Melancholic Man Whom the Physicians Were Unable to Cure

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Haft Awrang

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بخش ۴۵ - معالجه کردن ابوعلی سینا آن صاحب ماخولیا را که طبیبان از معالجه وی عاجز مانده بودند / Section 45 - Avicenna's Treatment of the Melancholic Man Whom the Physicians Were Unable to Cure

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بود در عهد بوعلی سینا
آن به کنه اصول طب بینا

ز آل بویه یکی ستوده خصال
شد ز ماخولیا پریشان حال

بانگ می زد که کم بود در ده
هیچ گاوی به سان من فربه

آشپز گر پزد هریسه ز من
گرددش گنج سیم کیسه ز من

زود باشید و حلق من ببرید
به دکان هریسه پز سپرید

صبح تا شام حال او این بود
با حریفان مقال او این بود

نگذشتی ز روز و شب دانگی
که چو گاوان نبودیش بانگی

که به زودی به کارد یا خنجر
بکشیدم که می شوم لاغر

تا به جایی رسید کو نه غذا
خورد از دست هیچ کس نه دوا

اهل طب راه عجز بسپردند
استعانت به بوعلی بردند

گفت سویش قدم نهید از راه
مژده گویان که بامداد پگاه

که رسد بهر کشتنت به شتاب
شنه در دست خواجه قصاب

رفت ازین مژده زور گرانیها
کرد اظهار شادمانی ها

بامدادان که بوعلی برخاست
شد سوی منزلش که گاو کجاست

آمد و خفت در میان سرای
که منم گاو هان و هان پیش آی

بوعلی دست و پاش سخت ببست
کارد بر کارد تیز کرد و نشست

برد قصاب وار کف سویش
دید هنجار پشت و پهلویش

گفت کین گاو لاغر است هنوز
مصلحت نیست کشتنش امروز

چند روزیش بر علف بندید
یک زمانش گرسنه مپسندید

تا چو فربه شود برانم تیغ
نبود افسوس ذبح او و دریغ

دست و پایش ز بند بگشادند
خوردنی هاش پیش بنهادند

هر چه دادندش از غذا و دوا
همه را خورد بی خلاف و ابا

تا چو گاوان ازان شود فربه
شد خود او از خیال گاوی به

English translation

In the era of Avicenna, who was deeply insightful of the principles of medicine, there was a praiseworthy person of the Buyid dynasty who fell into a distraught state due to melancholia. He would cry out, 'There is rarely in this village any cow as fat as me! If the cook makes a stew of my meat, his purse will be filled with a treasure of silver from me. Hurry and cut my throat, and deliver me to the shop of the stew-maker!' From morning till evening, this was his condition, and this was his speech with his companions. Not a moment of day or night would pass without him making a lowing sound like cows, crying, 'Kill me quickly with a knife or dagger, for I am growing thin!' Until it reached a point where he would neither eat food nor take medicine from anyone's hand. The practitioners of medicine trod the path of helplessness, and sought assistance from Avicenna. He told them, 'Go to him and give him the glad tidings that at early dawn, the master butcher will arrive in haste to slaughter him, with a sharp blade in his hand.' Upon hearing these glad tidings, his heavy grief departed, and he expressed great joy. In the morning, when Avicenna arose, he went to his house asking, 'Where is the cow?' The man came and lay down in the middle of the courtyard, saying, 'I am the cow! Lo and behold, step forward!' Avicenna bound his hands and feet tightly, sharpened knife against knife, and sat down. Like a butcher, he reached his hands toward him, inspected the condition of his back and flanks, and said, 'This cow is still lean; it is not wise to slaughter it today. Fodder it for a few days, and do not let it remain hungry for a moment, so that when it becomes fat, I may draw the blade, and there will be no regret or pity in its slaughter.' They untied his hands and feet, and placed food before him. Whatever they gave him of food and medicine, he consumed all without any opposition or refusal, so that he might become fat like a cow; and through this, he recovered from the delusion of being a cow.

Updated 2026-07-07

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