1Cademy - بخش ۴۲ - تمنا کردن یوسف علیه السلام شبانی را به حکم آنکه هیچ پیغمبری نبوده است که شبانی نکرده است و مهیا ساختن زلیخا اسباب شبانی وی را / Section 42 - Joseph, Peace Be Upon Him, Desires to Become a Shepherd, Since No Prophet Has Ever Lived Without Tending Sheep, and Zulaykha Prepares the Equipment for His Shepherding

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بخش ۴۲ - تمنا کردن یوسف علیه السلام شبانی را به حکم آنکه هیچ پیغمبری نبوده است که شبانی نکرده است و مهیا ساختن زلیخا اسباب شبانی وی را / Section 42 - Joseph, Peace Be Upon Him, Desires to Become a Shepherd, Since No Prophet Has Ever Lived Without Tending Sheep, and Zulaykha Prepares the Equipment for His Shepherding

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خوش آن بیدل که دولتیار گردد
به گرد خاطر دلدار گردد

برون آید تمام از خواهش خویش
دهد در خواهش او کاهش خویش

چو خواهد جان روانی بر لب آرد
ببوسد خاک او و جان سپارد

چو جوید دل کند دل را ز غم خون
دهد در دم ز راه دیده بیرون

چو گوید خیز از سر پای سازد
به خدمتگاری او سر فرازد

اگر راند نتابد سر چو خامه
وگر خواند نپیچد رو چو نامه

به حکم آنکه امت پروری را
شبان لایق بود پیغمبری را

ز یوسف با هزاران کامرانی
همی زد سر تمنای شبانی

زلیخا آن تمنا را چو دریافت
به تحصیل تمنایش عنان تافت

نخستین خواست ز استادان یک فن
که کردند از برایش یک فلاخن

رسن همچون خور از زر تافتندش
جو گیسوی معنبر بافتندش

زلیخا نیز می پخت آرزویی
که گنجانم در او خود را چو مویی

چو نتوان بی سبب خود را بر او بست
ببوسم گاه گاهش زان سبب دست

وگر می گفت این را چون پسندم
که یک مو بار خود بر وی ببندم

مرصع ساخت بهر زیب و زیور
چو مژگان خودش از در و گوهر

به جنبش گر فتادی لعل خوشرنگ
ز بی مقداری افکندیش چون سنگ

وز آن پس داد فرمان تا شبانان
رمه در کوه و در صحرا چرانان

جدا سازند نادر بره ای چند
چو گردون چر بره بی مثل و مانند

چو آهوی ختن سنبل چریده
ز گرگان هرگز آسیبی ندیده

زره سان پشمشان چون موی زنگی
ز ابریشم فزون در تازه رنگی

ز فربه دنبه ها یکسر گران بار
به راه از بس گرانی نرم رفتار

به هر وادی چو رفتندی چرا زن
تو گویی موج می زد سیل روغن

به روی موج باد از سر فرازی
گرفته صنعت زنجیر سازی

میان آن رمه یوسف شتابان
چو در برج حمل خورشید تابان

چو مشکین آهوی تنها فتاده
به سوی گوسفندان رو نهاده

زلیخا صبر و هوش و عقل و جان را
سبک دنباله کش کرده شبان را

نگهبانان موکل ساخت چندی
که دارندش نگاه از هر گزندی

بدینسان بود تا می خواست کارش
نبود از دست بیرون اختیارش

اگر می خواست در صحرا شبان بود
وگر می خواست شاه ملک جان بود

ولی در ذات خود بود آن پریزاد
ز شاهی و شبانی هر دو آزاد

English translation

Blessed is the selfless lover whom fortune befriends, And whose thoughts revolve around the beloved.

He wholly abandons his own desires, And diminishes himself for the sake of the beloved's desire.

If the beloved asks for his soul, he brings it readily to his lips, Kisses the dust at the beloved's feet, and surrenders his life.

If the beloved seeks his heart, he makes it bleed with grief, And at once sends it out through the passage of his eyes.

If the beloved says, 'Rise,' he stands upon his head, And takes pride in serving him.

If driven away, he does not turn his head like a reed pen; If summoned, he does not turn his face away like a letter.

Because, for the task of tending a community, Shepherding was fitting preparation for prophethood,

Despite Joseph's thousand enjoyments of good fortune, The desire to become a shepherd arose within him.

When Zulaykha learned of that desire, She turned her reins toward fulfilling his wish.

First, she asked masters of a certain craft To make a sling for him.

They twisted its cord from gold, radiant as the sun, And braided it like musk-scented tresses.

Zulaykha also cherished a desire: That she might place herself within it, slender as a hair.

Since she could not bind herself to him without a cause, She wished thereby to kiss his hand from time to time.

Yet she would also say, 'How could I approve Of fastening even the burden of a single hair upon him?'

For beauty and adornment, she set it with jewels, Like her own eyelashes adorned with pearls and gems.

If a brightly colored ruby happened to move, It would cast the sling aside like a worthless stone.

Afterward, she commanded the shepherds Who grazed the flocks upon mountain and plain

To set apart several rare lambs, Unmatched and peerless beneath the turning heavens.

Like musk deer of Khotan that had grazed on hyacinths, They had never suffered harm from wolves.

Their fleece, like the hair of Africans, resembled armor, Yet surpassed silk in the freshness of its color.

Their fat tails were all heavily laden with plumpness, And their great weight made them walk gently along the road.

Whenever they entered a valley to graze, You would have said that a flood of oil surged in waves.

Upon those waves, the proudly blowing wind Seemed to practice the craft of making chains.

Amid that flock Joseph hastened onward, Like the radiant sun within the zodiacal sign of Aries.

Like a solitary musk deer, He turned his face toward the sheep.

Zulaykha lightly sent patience, sense, reason, and soul Trailing behind the shepherd.

She appointed several guards To protect him from every injury.

Thus matters remained as long as he wished; Choice never passed out of his hands.

Whenever he wished, he was a shepherd in the wilderness, And whenever he wished, he was king of the realm of the soul.

Yet in his own essence that angelic one Was free alike from kingship and shepherding.

Updated 2026-07-18

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