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بخش ۱ - آغاز / Section 1 - Beginning

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الهی کمال الهی توراست
جمال جهان پادشاهی توراست

جمال تو از وسع بینش برون
کمال از حد آفرینش فزون

بلندی و پستی نخوانم تو را
مقید به اینها ندانم تو را

نه تنها بلندی و پستی تویی
که هستی ده هست و هستی تویی

تویی جمله و غیر تو هیچ نیست
درین نکته یک مو خم و پیچ نیست

چو بیرونی از عقل و وهم و قیاس
تو را چون شناسم من ناشناس

وز آن رو که پیدا و پنهان تویی
به هر چه افتدم چشم دل آن تویی

جهان نیست جز ساده وش نامه ای
بر او صنع تو حرفکش خامه ای

خرد هست ازان نامه حرف نخست
که دیباچه نامه زان شد درست

بود آخرین حرف ازان آدمی
بر او ختم شد منصب خاتمی

ز آغاز این نامه تا ختم کار
گر آرد یکی نامجو در شمار

همه دفتر فضل و انعام توست
مفصل شده نسخه نام توست

نگویم که نامت هزار و یکیست
که با آن هزاران هزار اندکیست

بهشت است منزلگه زیرکی
که کوشد در احصای صد کم یکی

بجنبان بدین سبحه انگشت من
وزآن مهره گردان قوی پشت من

بود در رهت سبحه خوانی سپهر
که گردد از مهره سان ماه و مهر

به تسبیح خوانی تو می خوانیش
از آنست این مهره گردانیش

طبایع که با یکدگر جنگی اند
ز تدبیر تو رو به یکرنگی اند

ز توست آب با آتش آمیخته
ز تو خاک در باد آویخته

شد از صلح ایشان درین کهنه دیر
بسی خیر ظاهر که الصح خیر

ازان صلح کانها پر از گوهر است
زمین پر درختان بار آور است

وز آنست در جانور زندگی
پس از زندگی وصف پایندگی

وز آنست در آدمی دین و داد
ز دانش به هر کار بند و گشاد

تویی کز تو کس را نباشد گزیر
در افتادگی ها تویی دستگیر

ندارم ز کس دستگیری هوس
ز دست تو می آید این کار و بس

ز تو گر فزایش و گر کاهش است
نه چون فیض خورشید بی خواهش است

بدانی و خواهی و آنگه کنی
به قانون حکمت به آن ره کنی

عبث را درین کارگه راه نیست
ولی هر سر از هر سر آگاه نیست

به ما اختیاری که دادی به کار
ندادی در آن اختیار اختیار

چو سر رشته کار در دست توست
کننده به هر کار پابست توست

سزد گر ز حیرت برآریم دم
چو مختار باشیم و مجبور هم

فلک با همه صیت و طاق و طرنب
نجنبد ز جا تا نگویی بجنب

اگر بی تو موری بجنبد ز جای
در آن جنبش او هم بود یک خدای

ز شرکت زند در جهان خواجه دم
وگر خود شریک است در یک درم

بدین عوی آن کو کشد سر ز راه
دو شاخش نهد شحنه لااله

نشسته ست در طبع هر زیرکی
که دارد دو گیتی مؤثر یکی

یکی جوی جامی دو جویی مکن
به میدان وحدت دو گویی مکن

یکی اصل جمعیت و زندگیست
دویی تخم مرگ و پراکندگیست

English translation

O God, divine perfection is Yours, the beauty of the world's kingship is Yours. Your beauty is beyond the reach of sight, Your perfection exceeds the bounds of creation. I do not call You height and lowness, nor do I know You as bound by these. Not only are You height and lowness, for You are the giver of being to all that is, and Being itself. You are the All, and other than You there is nothing; in this point there is not a hair's twist or bend. Since You are beyond intellect, fancy, and analogy, how shall I, the ignorant one, know You? And since You are both manifest and hidden, whatever my heart's eye falls upon is You. The world is nothing but a plain-faced book, upon which Your craft is a letter-tracing pen. Intellect is the first letter of that book, for by it the preface of the book was made right. The last letter of it is humankind, upon whom the office of the seal was sealed. From the beginning of this book to the end of the work, if a seeker of names should reckon them up, the whole register is of Your grace and bounty, a detailed copy of Your name. I do not say that Your names are a thousand and one, for compared to that, thousands upon thousands are few. Paradise is the dwelling of the clever one who strives to count ninety-nine of a hundred. Move my finger upon this rosary, and by turning those beads strengthen my back. Upon Your path the sphere is a rosary-reciter, as moon and sun turn about like its beads. You make it recite Your glorification; that is why it keeps turning its beads. The elements that are at war with one another turn toward one hue by Your governance. By You water is mingled with fire, by You earth is suspended in the wind. From their reconciliation, in this old cloister, much manifest good arose, for concord is good. From that peace the mines are full of gems, the earth is full of fruit-bearing trees. And from it is life within living creatures, and after life the quality of endurance. And from it in humankind are faith and justice, and through knowledge the binding and loosing of every affair. You are such that none has any escape from You; in our fallings, You are the one who takes the hand. I have no desire for any other's helping hand; this work comes from Your hand alone. Whether increase or decrease comes from You, it is not, like the sun's emanation, without will. You know, and will, and then You act, and by the law of wisdom You set it on its way. Vanity has no path into this workshop, yet not every mind is aware of every secret. The free will You granted us for our acts— You did not grant us choice over that choice. Since the end of the thread of affairs is in Your hand, the doer in every act is bound to You. It is fitting if we breathe out in bewilderment, since we are both free and compelled at once. The heaven, with all its renown and pomp and clamor, stirs not from its place until You say "stir." If without You an ant should stir from its place, in that motion there would be a second god. The master would speak of partnership in the world, even were he but a partner in a single dirham. By this claim, whoever turns his head from the road— the constable of "there is no god" sets two horns upon him. It is settled in the nature of every clever soul that the two worlds have but one effecter. Seek the One, O Jami, do not seek two; in the arena of unity, do not play with two balls. Oneness is the root of union and life; duality is the seed of death and dispersion.

Updated 2026-07-19

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