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بخش ۶۸ - نکاح بستن یوسف علیه السلام زلیخا را به فرمان خدای تعالی و زفاف کردن با وی / Section 68 - Joseph, Peace Be Upon Him, Wedding Zulaykha by the Command of God the Exalted, and Consummating the Marriage with Her

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چو فرمان یافت یوسف از خداوند
که بندد با زلیخا عقد پیوند

اساس انداخت جشنی خسروانه
نهاد اسباب جشن اندر میانه

شه مصر و سران ملک را خواند
به تخت عز و صدر جاه بنشاند

به قانون خلیل و دین یعقوب
بر آیین جمیل و صورت خوب

زلیخا را به عقد خود درآورد
به عقد خویش یکتا گوهر آورد

نثار افشان بر او مه تا به ماهی
مبارکباد گو شاه و سپاهی

به رسم معذرت یوسف به پا خاست
به مجلس حاضران را عذرها خواست

زلیخا را به پرسش ساخت دلشاد
به خلوتخانه خاصش فرستاد

پرستاران همه پیشش دویدند
سر و افسر همه پیشش کشیدند

خروشان از جمال دلفریبش
به زرکش جامه ها دادند زیبش

چو های و هوی مردم یافت آرام
به منزلگاه خود زد هر کسی گام

عروس مه نقاب عنبرین بست
زرافشان پرده بر روی زمین بست

به فیروزی بر این فیروزه طارم
چراغ افروز شد گیتی ز انجم

فلک عقد ثریا از بر آویخت
شفق یاقوت تر با گوهر آمیخت

جهان را شعر شب شد پرده راز
در آن پرده جهانی راز پرداز

به خلوت محرمان با هم نشستند
به روی غیر مشکین پرده بستند

زلیخا منتظر در پرده خاص
دل او از طپش در پرده رقاص

که این تشنه که بر لب دیده آب است
به بیداریست یارب یا به خواب است

شود زین تشنگی سیراب یا نی
نشیند از دلش این تاب یا نی

گهی پر آب چشمش ز اشک شادی
گهی پر خون ز بیم نامرادی

گهی گفتی که من باور ندارم
که گردد خوش بدینسان روزگارم

گهی گفتی که لطف دوست عام است
ز لطف دوست نومیدی حرام است

ازین اندیشه خاطر در کشاکش
گهی خوش بودی آنجا گاه ناخوش

ز ناگه دید کز در پرده برخاست
مهی بی پرده منزل را بیاراست

زلیخا را نظر چون بر وی افتاد
تماشای ویش پی در پی افتاد

برون برد از خودش اشراق آن نور
ز نور خور ظلام سایه شد دور

چو یوسف آن محبت کیشیش دید
ز دیدار خود آن بی خویشیش دید

ز رحمت جای بر تخت زرش کرد
کنار خویش بالین سرش کرد

به بوی خود به هوش آورد بازش
به بیداری کشید از خواب نازش

به آن رویی کزو می بست دیده
وزو می بود عمری دل رمیده

چو چشم انداخت رویی دید زیبا
به سان نقش چین بر روی دیبا

چو روی حور عین مطبوع و مقبول
ز حسن آراییش مشاطه معزول

نظر چون یافت بر دیدن قرارش
عنان کش شد سوی بوس و کنارش

به لب بوسید شیرین شکرش را
به دندان کند عناب ترش را

چو بود از بهر آن فرخنده مهمان
دو لب بر خوان وصل او نمکدان

ازان رو کرد اول بوسه را ساز
که بر خوان از نمک به باشد آغاز

نمک چون شور شوقش بیشتر کرد
دو ساعد در میان او کمر کرد

به زیر آن کمر نابرده رنجی
نشانی یافت از نایاب گنجی

میان بسته طلب را چابک و چست
ازان گنج گهر درج گهر جست

نهادش پیش آن سرو گل اندام
مقفل حقه ای از نقره خام

نه خازن برده سوی حقه دستی
نه خاین داده قفلش را شکستی

کلید حقه از یاقوت تر ساخت
گشادش قفل و در وی گوهر انداخت

کمیتش گام زد در عرصه تنگ
ز بس آمد شدن شد پای او لنگ

چو نفس سرکش اول توسنی کرد
در آخر ترک مایی و منی کرد

شبانگه تشنه ای برخاست از خواب
به سیمین برکه سر در زد پی آب

شد اول غرقه و آخر با خوشی جفت
برون آمد به جای خویشتن خفت

دو غنچه از دو گلبن بر دمیده
ز باد صبحدم با هم رسیده

یکی نشگفته و دیگر شگفته
نهفته ناشگفته در شگفته

چو یوسف گوهر ناسفته را دید
ز باغش غنچه نشگفته را چید

بدو گفت این گهر ناسفته چون ماند
گل از باد سحر نشگفته چون ماند

بگفتا جز عزیزم کس ندیده ست
ولی او غنچه باغم نچیده ست

به راه جاه اگر چه تیزتگ بود
به وقت کامرانی سست رگ بود

به طفلی در که خوابت دیده بودم
ز تو نام و نشان پرسیده بودم

بساط مرحمت گسترده بودی
به من این نقد را بسپرده بودی

ز هر کس داشتم این نقد را پاس
نزد بر گوهرم کس نوک الماس

بحمدالله که این نقد امانت
که کوته ماند ازان دست خیانت

دو صد بار ار چه تیغ بیم خوردم
به تو بی آفتی تسلیم کردم

چو یوسف این سخن را زان پریچهر
شنید افزود از آنش مهر بر مهر

بدو گفت ای به حسن از حور عین بیش
نه این به زانچه می جستی ازین پیش

بگفت آری ولی معذور می دار
که من بودم ز درد عاشقی زار

به دل شوقی که پایانی نبودش
به جان دردی که درمانی نبودش

تو را شکلی بدین خوبی که هستی
کزو هر دم فزاید شور و مستی

شکیبایی نبود از تو حد من
بکش دامان عفوی بر بد من

ز حرفی کز کمال عشق خیزد
کجا معشوق با عاشق ستیزد

English translation

When Joseph received the command from the Lord to tie the bond of marriage with Zulaykha, He laid the foundation of a royal feast and set out the means of celebration in the midst. He summoned the king of Egypt and the chiefs of the realm and seated them upon the throne of honor and the seat of high rank. By the law of Abraham (Khalil) and the faith of Jacob, in fair custom and comely form, He brought Zulaykha into his own wedlock, brought a peerless pearl into his marriage bond. From moon to fish all scattered gifts upon her; king and soldiery gave their congratulations. In the manner of apology Joseph rose to his feet and made his excuses to those present at the gathering. He gladdened Zulaykha's heart with kind inquiry and sent her to his own private chamber. The attendants all ran before her; all laid crown and headdress before her. Clamoring at her heart-alluring beauty, they adorned her in gold-embroidered garments. When the tumult of the people found rest, everyone made their way to their own dwelling. The moon-bride fastened her amber veil; the gold-scattering curtain drew over the face of the earth. In triumph upon this turquoise vault the world was lit with the lamps of the stars. The sky hung the necklace of the Pleiades from above; twilight mingled fresh ruby with pearl. The black tress of night became the world's veil of secrets; within that veil, a whole world of secret-keeping. In privacy the intimates sat together and against the stranger's face drew a musky curtain. Zulaykha waiting within the private curtain, her heart, from throbbing, dancing behind the veil, Wondering whether this thirsty one, who sees water at her lip, is awake, O Lord, or in a dream; Whether from this thirst she shall be quenched or not, whether this burning shall settle from her heart or not. Now her eye brimful of water from tears of joy, now full of blood from the fear of disappointment. Now she would say, I do not believe that my fortune should turn so sweet as this. Now she would say, the Friend's grace is for all; to despair of the Friend's grace is forbidden. From this thought her mind in tug-of-war, now she was happy, and then downcast. Suddenly she saw the curtain rise from the door; an unveiled moon adorned the dwelling. When Zulaykha's gaze fell upon him, gazing at him seized her again and again. The radiance of that light carried her out of herself; by the sun's light the darkness of shadow was driven far. When Joseph saw her devotion of love, saw her self-forgetfulness at the sight of him, Out of mercy he placed her upon his golden throne and made his own side the pillow for her head. With his own fragrance he brought her back to her senses; from the sleep of languor he drew her into wakefulness— With that very face from which she used to shut her eyes, and from which for a lifetime her heart had fled. When she cast her eye she saw a fair face, like a Chinese painting upon a face of silk brocade, Like the face of a wide-eyed houri, pleasing and accepted, from whose adornment of beauty the tire-woman is dismissed. When his gaze found rest upon the beholding, the rein drew him toward kissing and embracing her. With his lips he kissed her sweet sugar; with his teeth he plucked her fresh jujube. Since for that auspicious guest her two lips were the salt-cellar upon the feast of union, For that reason he made the kiss the first course, for at a feast it is best to begin with salt. When the salt made the relish of his longing greater, he made his two forearms a girdle about her waist. Beneath that girdle, taking no pain, he found a token of an unattainable treasure. Girded up, nimble and quick in the seeking, from that jeweled treasure he sought the casket of pearls. Before that rose-bodied cypress there lay a locked casket of pure silver. No treasurer had put a hand toward the casket, no traitor had broken its lock. He fashioned the casket's key from fresh ruby, opened its lock, and cast the jewel within. His bay steed stepped into the narrow field; from so much coming and going its foot grew lame. As the unruly self first grew restive, in the end it renounced all we-ness and I-ness. At nightfall a thirsty one rose from sleep and plunged his head into the silver pool for water; First he was drowned, and at last paired with delight he came forth and lay down in his own place. Two buds sprung from two rose-bushes, brought together by the breath of the dawn breeze, One unopened and the other in bloom, the unopened one hidden within the blossomed. When Joseph saw the unpierced pearl, he plucked the unopened bud from her garden. He said to her, how did this pearl remain unpierced? how did the rose remain unopened by the dawn breeze? She said, none but my Aziz has beheld me, yet he never plucked the bud of my garden. On the road of rank, though he was swift of pace, at the time of fulfillment he was slack of vein. In childhood, when I had seen you in a dream, I had asked of your name and your sign; You had spread the carpet of kindness and entrusted this coin to my keeping. From everyone I guarded this coin; none set the diamond's point upon my jewel. Praise be to God that this coin held in trust remained beyond the reach of the hand of betrayal. Though two hundred times I tasted the sword of dread, I delivered it up to you unblemished. When Joseph heard this speech from that fairy-faced one, his love increased thereby, love upon love. He said to her, O you greater in beauty than the wide-eyed houri, is not this better than what you sought before? She said, yes, but hold me excused, for I was wretched from the pain of loving. In my heart a longing that had no end, in my soul a pain that had no remedy. You have a form so lovely as you are, from which every moment passion and rapture increase. Patience apart from you was beyond my measure; draw the skirt of pardon over my wrongdoing. At a word that springs from the perfection of love, how should the beloved quarrel with the lover?

Updated 2026-07-19

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