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بخش ۱۵ - نهال جمال یوسفی را از بهارستان غیب به باغستان شهادت آوردن و به آب دیده یعقوب و هوای دل زلیخا پروردن / Section 15 - Bringing the Sapling of Joseph's Beauty from the Spring Garden of the Unseen into the Garden of Manifestation, and Nurturing It with the Water of Jacob's Eyes and the Air of Zulaikha's Heart

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درین نوبتگه صورت پرستی
زند هر کس به نوبت کوس هستی

حقیقت را به هر دوری ظهوریست
ز اسمی بر جهان افتاده نوریست

اگر عالم به یک دستور ماندی
بسا انوار کان مستور ماندی

گر از گردون نگردد نور خود گم
نگیرد رونقی بازار انجم

زمستان از چمن بار ار نبندد
ز تأثیر بهاران گل نخندد

چو آدم رخت ازین محرابگه بست
به جایش شیث در محراب بنشست

چو وی هم رفت کرد آغاز ادریس
درین تلبیس خانه درس تقدیس

چو شد تدریس ادریس آسمانی
به نوح افتاد دین را پاسبانی

به طوفان فنا چون غرقه شد نوح
شد این در بر خلیل الله مفتوح

چو خوان دعوتش چیدند ز آفاق
موفق شد به آن انفاق اسحاق

ازین هامون شد او راه عدم کوب
زد از کوه هدی گلبانگ یعقوب

چو یعقوب از عقب زین کار دم زد
ز حد شام بر کنعان علم زد

اقامت را به کنعان محمل افکند
فتادش در فزایش مال و فرزند

شمار گوسفندش از بز و میش
در آن وادی شد از مور و ملخ بیش

پسر بیرون ز یوسف یازده داشت
ولی یوسف درون جانش ره داشت

چو یوسف بر زمین آمد ز مادر
به رخ شد ماه گردون را برادر

دمید از بوستان دل نهالی
نمود از آسمان جان هلالی

ز گلزار خلیل الله گلی رست
قبای نازک اندامی بر او جست

برآمد اختری از برج اسحاق
ز روی او منور چشم آفاق

علم زد لاله ای از باغ یعقوب
ازو هم مرهم و هم داغ یعقوب

غزالی شد شمیم افزای کنعان
و زو رشک ختن صحرای کنعان

ز جان تا بود بهره مادرش را
ز شیر خویش شستی شکرش را

چو دیدش در کنار خود دو ساله
دمید ایام زهرش در نواله

گرامی دری از بحر کریمی
ز مادر ماند با اشک یتیمی

پدر چون دید حال گوهر خویش
صدف کردش کنار خواهر خویش

ز عمه مرغ جانش پرورش یافت
به گلزار خوشی بال و پرش یافت

قدش آیین خوش رفتاری آورد
لبش رسم شکر گفتاری آورد

دل عمه به مهرش شد چنان بند
که نگسستی ازو یک لحظه پیوند

به هر شب خفته چون جان در برش بود
به هر روز آفتاب منظرش بود

پدر هم آرزوی روی او داشت
ز هر سو میل خاطر سوی او داشت

جز او کس در دل غمگین نمی یافت
به گه گه دیدنش تسکین نمی یافت

چنان می خواست کان ماه دل افروز
به پیش چشم او باشد شب و روز

به خواهر گفت ای کز مهرورزی
به فرقم چون درخت بید لرزی

ندارم طاقت دوری ز یوسف
خلاصم ده ز مهجوری ز یوسف

به خلوتگاه راز من فرستش
به محراب نیاز من فرستش

ز یعقوب این سخن خواهر چو بشنید
ز فرمانش به صورت سر نپیچید

ولیکن کرد باخود حیله ای ساز
که تا گیرد ز یعقوبش به آن باز

به کف ز اسحاق بودش یک کمر بند
به خدمت سوده در راه خداوند

کمربندی که هر دستش که بستی
ز دست اندازی آفات رستی

چو یوسف را ز خود رو در پدر کرد
میان بندش نهانی زان کمر کرد

چنان بست آن کمر را بر میانش
که آگاهی نشد قطعا از آنش

کمر بسته به یعقوبش فرستاد
وز آن پس در میان آوازه در داد

که گشته ست آن کمربند از میان گم
گرفتی هر کسی را زان توهم

به زیر جامه جست و جوی کردی
پس آنگه در دگر کس روی کردی

چو در آخر به یوسف نوبت افتاد
کمر را از میانش چست بگشاد

در آن ایام هر کس اهل دین بود
بر او حکم شریعت اینچنین بود

که دزدی هر که بودی پایگیرش
گرفتی صاحب کالا اسیرش

دگر باره به تزویر این بهانه
چو کرد آماده بردش سوی خانه

به رویش چشم روشن شاد بنشست
پس از یکچند اجل چشمش فرو بست

بر او شد خاطر یعقوب خرم
ز دیدارش نبستی دیده بر هم

به پیش رو چو یوسف قبله ای یافت
ز فرزندان دیگر روی برتافت

به یوسف بود هر کاری که بودش
به یوسف بود بازاری که بودش

به یوسف بود روحش راحت اندوز
به یوسف بود چشمش دیده افروز

بلی هر جا کزان سان مه بتابد
اگر خورشید باشد ره نیابد

چه گویم کان چه حسن و دلبری بود
که بیرون از حد حور و پری بود

مهی بود از سپهر آشنایی
ازو کون و مکان پر روشنایی

نه مه هیهات روشن آفتابی
مه از وی بر فلک افتاده تایی

چه می گویم چه جای آفتاب است
که رخشان چشمه اش اینجا سراب است

مقدس نوری از قید چه و چون
سر از جلباب چون آورده بیرون

چو آن بیچون درین چون کرده آرام
پی روپوش کرده یوسفش نام

به دل یعقوب اگر مهرش نهان داشت
وگر کردش به جان جا جای آن داشت

زلیخایی که رشک حور عین بود
به مغرب پرده عصمت نشین بود

ز خورشید رخش نادیده تابی
گرفتار خیالش شد به خوابی

چو بر دوران غم عشق آورد زور
ز نزدیکان نباشد عاشقی دور

English translation

In this arena of form-worship, Each person in turn beats the drum of existence.

In every age, Reality has a manifestation; From one divine name, a light falls upon the world.

If the world always remained in one condition, How many lights would remain concealed!

If its light were never lost from the heavens, The marketplace of the stars would gain no splendor.

If winter did not bind the garden's fruit, No flower would smile through spring's influence.

When Adam packed his belongings from this sanctuary, Seth sat in the sanctuary in his place.

When he too departed, Enoch began Teaching sanctity in this house of deception.

When Enoch's teaching ascended to heaven, The guardianship of religion fell to Noah.

When Noah was engulfed by the flood of annihilation, This door was opened to the Friend of God, Abraham.

When the banquet of his summons was cleared from the horizons, Isaac was favored with that bestowal.

From this plain he set out upon the road of nonbeing, And Jacob raised a floral cry from the mountain of guidance.

When Jacob took up this task after him, He raised his banner over Canaan from the bounds of Syria.

He cast down his litter to dwell in Canaan, And his wealth and children began to increase.

The number of his sheep, both goats and ewes, Became greater in that valley than ants and locusts.

Besides Joseph, he had eleven sons, But Joseph had found a path into his very soul.

When Joseph came from his mother onto the earth, His face became a brother to the moon of heaven.

A sapling sprouted from the garden of the heart; A crescent appeared from the heaven of the soul.

A flower grew from the rose garden of the Friend of God, And a robe fitted itself around his slender form.

A star rose from the constellation of Isaac; Through his face, the eyes of the horizons were illumined.

A tulip raised its banner from Jacob's garden, Becoming both Jacob's balm and Jacob's wound.

A gazelle came forth, increasing Canaan's fragrance, And through him the plain of Canaan became the envy of Khotan.

As long as his mother retained a share of life, She washed his sugar-sweet being with her own milk.

When she saw him two years old beside her, The days mixed poison into her food.

A precious pearl from the sea of generosity, He was left by his mother with the tears of orphanhood.

When the father saw the condition of his pearl, He made his sister's embrace its shell.

The bird of his soul was reared by his aunt; In the rose garden of happiness, it gained wings and feathers.

His stature introduced the custom of graceful walking; His lips established the practice of sugar-sweet speech.

His aunt's heart became so bound to him through love That she could not break from him for a single moment.

Every night he slept in her embrace like the soul; Every day he was the sun before her eyes.

His father too longed to see his face; From every direction, his heart inclined toward him.

He found no one but Joseph within his sorrowful heart, Nor could seeing him from time to time bring contentment.

He wished that this heart-illuminating moon Might remain before his eyes both night and day.

He said to his sister, O you who, out of affection, Tremble over my head like a willow tree,

I cannot endure separation from Joseph; Deliver me from estrangement from Joseph.

Send him to the private chamber of my secrets; Send him to the sanctuary of my supplication.

When Jacob's sister heard these words, She did not outwardly turn away from his command.

Yet she devised a stratagem within herself By which she might take Joseph back from Jacob.

She possessed a belt inherited from Isaac, Worn smooth through service upon the path of the Lord.

It was a belt which, whenever it bound someone's hand, Delivered that person from the assaults of calamities.

When she turned Joseph away from herself toward his father, She secretly fastened that belt around his waist.

She bound the belt around him in such a way That he remained wholly unaware of it.

She sent him, belt-fastened, to Jacob, And afterward raised a clamor among the people,

Saying that the belt had disappeared, And casting suspicion upon everyone because of it.

She searched beneath one person's clothes, Then turned toward another person.

When at last Joseph's turn arrived, She swiftly unfastened the belt from his waist.

In those days, for everyone belonging to the faith, The ruling of religious law was as follows:

Whoever was caught as a thief Would be taken captive by the owner of the property.

Once again, through deceit, she prepared this pretext And carried him back to her home.

She sat joyfully with brightened eyes before his face; Then, after some time, death closed her eyes.

Jacob's heart became joyful because of him, And at the sight of him he would not close his eyes.

When he found Joseph before him as a prayer-direction, He turned his face away from his other children.

Whatever business he had was centered upon Joseph; Whatever market he possessed was devoted to Joseph.

Through Joseph, his soul gathered repose; Through Joseph, his eyes gathered light.

Indeed, wherever a moon like that should shine, Even if the sun were there, it could find no way forward.

What can I say of what beauty and loveliness that was, Surpassing the bounds of houris and fairies?

He was a moon from the sphere of intimacy, By whom existence and place were filled with light.

Not a moon—far from it—but a radiant sun, Of which the moon in heaven was merely a reflection.

What am I saying? What standing has the sun here, When its radiant spring is but a mirage beside him?

A sacred light, free from the bonds of how and why, Had brought its head out from beneath the veil of manifestation.

When that One beyond all how had settled within this world of how, For concealment's sake, He gave it the name Joseph.

If Jacob kept love for him hidden in his heart, And gave him a place within his soul, he was worthy of it.

Zulaikha, who was the envy of the wide-eyed houris, Dwelt in the West behind the curtain of chastity.

Without having seen a single ray from the sun of his face, She became captive to his image in a dream.

When the revolution of love's sorrow exerts its force, No lover remains far from the beloved.

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