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بخش ۶۱ - ذکر عبدالله منازل قدس الله روحه العزیز / Section 61 - Mention of Abdallah Manazil, May Allah Sanctify His Glorious Soul

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آن هدف تیر ملامت آن صدف در کرامت آن مجرد رجال آن مشرف کمال آن خزانهٔ فضائل عبدالله منازل رحمة الله علیه یگانه روزگار بود و شیخ ملامتیان بود و متورع ومتوکل و معرض هم از دنیا و هم از خلق مرید حمدون قصار بود و عالم به علوم ظاهر و باطن و بسیار حدیث نوشته بود و سماع کرده و در وقت او مجردتر از او و پاکیزه تر ازو کسی نبوده است چنانکه نقل است که ابوعلی ثقفی سخن می گفت. در میان سخن عبدالله او را گفت: مرگ را ساخته باش که ازو چاره نیست علی گفت: تو ساخته باش عبدالله دست را بالین کرد و سر بر او نهاد و گفت: من مردم در حال بمرد بوعلی منقطع شد زیرا که او را علایق بود عبدالله مفرد و سخن اوست که گفت: ابوعلی ثقفی وقتی که سخن گفتی از برای خود گفتی نه از برای خلق و از جهة این بود که برکات سخن او بدو رسیدو در این معنی گفت: آفت ماست که از سخن خود انتفاع نمی توانیم گرفت چگونه دیگری از سخن ما منفعت گیرد.
و گفت: هرچه عبارت کنی به زیان خویش باید که از حال خودعبارت کننده باشی و نباشی به سخن خویش عبارت کننده و گوینده حکایت از غیری.

نقلست که کسی از وی روزی مسئلهٔ پرسید جواب داد آن مرد گفت: خواجه یکبار دیگر بازگوی گفت: من در پشیمانی آنم که اول چرا گفتم.
و گفت: هیچ کس فریضهٔ ضایع نکند از فریضها الامبتلی گردد به ضایع کردن سنت ها و هر که به ترک سنتی مبتلا گردد زود بود که در بدعت افتد.

و گفت: فاضلترین وقت هاء تو آنست که از خواطر و وساوس نفس رسته باشی و مردمان از ظن بد تو رسته باشند.
و گفت: هر که نفس او ملازمت چیزی کند که بدان احتیاج ندارد و ضایع کند از احوال خویش هم چندان که ازکثرت ولایت بدو احتیاج است.

و گفت: آدمی عاشق است بر شقاوت خویش یعنی همه آن خواهد که سبب بدبختی او بود.
و یک روز اصحاب خود را گفت: شما عاشق شده اید بر کسی که بر شما عاشق شده است.

و گفت: عجب دارم از کسی که در حیا سخن گوید و از خدا شرم ندارد یعنی که چون خدای را متکلم می بیند چگونه شرم نمی دارد که در کلام آید.
و گفت: هر کرا محبت دادند و فقراگر او را خشیت ندهند او فریفته است.

و گفت: خدمت ادب است نه مداومت بر ادب که ادب خدمت عزیزتر است از خدمت بی ادب.
و گفت: ما با ادب محتاج تریم از بسیاری علم.

و گفت: هر که قدر خویش بر چشم خلق بزرگ داند بر او واجب چنان کند که نفس او بر چشم او خوار شود ندیدی که ابراهیم علیه السلام خلیل خویش خواند حق تعالی و او گفت: و اجنبنی و بنی ان نعبد الاصنام.
و گفت: احکام غیب در دنیا بر کسی ظاهر نگردد ولکن فضیحت دعوی ظاهرگردد و گفت: هرگز دعوی و تسلیم در یک حال جمع نشوند.

و گفت: هر که محجوب گردد به چیزی از علوم خود هرگز او عیب خود نبیند.
وگفت: حقیقت فقر انقطاع است ازدنیا و آخرت و مستغنی شدن به خداوند دنیا و آخرت.

وگفت: هر که مشغول شود باوقات گذشته بی فایده نقد وقت از دست بداد.
و گفت: آدمی چگونه از پس و پیش نگاه تواند کرد و او غایب است در حال از مقام و وقت خود.

و گفت: تو ظاهرا دعوی عبودیت می کنی اما باطنا سر باوصاف ربوبیت برآورده.
و گفت: عبودیت اضطراری است نه اختیاری است.

و گفت هر که طعم عبودیت نچشید اورا عیشی نیست.
وگفت: عبودیت رجوع کردن است در جمله چیزها به خدای به جز اضطرار.

و گفت: بنده بندهٔ او بود تا خود را خادمی نمی جوید چون خود را خادمی جست از حد بندگی افتاد و ادب از دست داد.
و گفت: هیچ چیز نیست در کسی که خواری بندگی و خواری سؤال و خواری رد را نچشیده است.

و گفت: حق تعالی یاد کرده است انواع عبادت را که الصابرین و الصادقین و الفانتین و المتقین و المستغفرین بالاسحار ختم جمله مقامات بر استغفار کرده است تا بنده بینا گردد بر تقصیر خویش بر همه افعا ل و احوال پس از همه استغفار کند.
و گفت: هرکه سایه نفس از نفس خویش برگیرد عیش خلایق در سایه او بود و گفت: تفویض با کسب بهتر باشد از خلوت بی کسب.

و گفت: هر که در این حدیث آید از سر صفت قوی گردد و فضیحت نشود و هر که از سر قوت درآید ضعیف گردد و فضیحت شود.
و گفت: اگر درست شود بنده را یک نفس در جمله عمر بی ریا و بی شریک برکات آن نفس تا آخر عمر با او بماند.

و گفت: عارف آنست که از هیچ چیزش عجب نیاید.
نقلست که یکی او را دعاکرد که آنچه امیدداری خدای بدهاد گفت: امید بعد از معرفت بود و کو معرفت وفات او بنشابور بود و خاک او در مشهد انبار است.

احمداسود گفت: بخواب دیدم که هاتفی آواز داد و مرا گفت: عبدالله را بگوی که ساخته باش که یکسال دیگر وفات خواهی کرد بامداد برفتم و باوی بگفتم گفت: این وعده مدید است ومدتی بعید که تا سالی دیگر طاقت انتظار تواند کرد رحمةالله علیه.

English translation

That target of the arrow of blame, that shell of the pearl of dignity, that solitary among men, that honored one of perfection, that treasury of virtues, Abdallah Manazil, may God have mercy on him, was unique in his time and was the sheikh of the Malamatiyya (the people of blame). He was pious, reliant on God, and detached from both the world and the people. He was a disciple of Hamdun al-Qassar, learned in both outward and inward sciences, and had written many hadiths and practiced audition (sama'). In his time, there was no one more solitary or pure than him. As it is related, Abu Ali al-Thaqafi was speaking, and in the middle of his speech, Abdallah said to him: 'Prepare for death, for there is no escape from it.' Ali said: 'You prepare.' Abdallah placed his hand as a pillow, laid his head upon it, and said: 'I have died,' and he died instantly. Abu Ali was cut off because he had attachments, while Abdallah was singular. And it is his saying: 'When Abu Ali al-Thaqafi spoke, he spoke for himself, not for the people; and it was for this reason that the blessings of his speech reached him.' And in this meaning he said: 'It is our affliction that we cannot benefit from our own speech; how then can another find benefit in our words?' And he said: 'Whatever you express must be to your own detriment; you must be the one expressing your own state, not one who expresses with your own words and tells tales of others.' It is related that someone asked him a question one day. He answered. The man said: 'Master, say it once more.' He said: 'I am in regret of why I spoke the first time.' And he said: 'No one neglects an obligatory duty except that he becomes afflicted with the neglect of the Sunnas; and whoever is afflicted with abandoning a Sunna will soon fall into innovation.' And he said: 'The most virtuous of your times is when you are delivered from the thoughts and whisperings of the soul, and people are delivered from your ill suspicions.' And he said: 'Whoever's soul persists in something it does not need, loses from his own states as much as he needs from the abundance of authority over him.' And he said: 'Man is in love with his own wretchedness; that is, he desires all that causes his misfortune.' And one day he told his companions: 'You have fallen in love with someone who has fallen in love with you.' And he said: 'I marvel at one who speaks of modesty and is not ashamed before God; that is, when he sees God as the Speaker, how is he not ashamed to enter into speech?' And he said: 'Whomever is given love and poverty, if he is not given fear, he is deceived.' And he said: 'Service is etiquette, not persistence in etiquette; for the etiquette of service is more precious than service without etiquette.' And he said: 'We are more in need of a little etiquette than much knowledge.' And he said: 'Whoever considers his own worth great in the eyes of the people, it becomes necessary for him that his soul becomes contemptible in his own eyes. Have you not seen that God called Abraham His Friend, and he said: And keep me and my sons away from worshipping idols?' And he said: 'The rulings of the Unseen do not become manifest to anyone in this world, but the disgrace of pretension becomes manifest.' And he said: 'Pretension and submission never gather in one state.' And he said: 'Whoever is veiled by something of his own knowledge will never see his own fault.' And he said: 'The reality of poverty is detachment from this world and the hereafter, and becoming self-sufficient through the Lord of this world and the hereafter.' And he said: 'Whoever becomes occupied with past times without benefit has lost the cash of the present moment.' And he said: 'How can a person look behind and ahead when he is absent in the present state from his station and time?' And he said: 'Outwardly you claim servitude, but inwardly you have raised your head with the attributes of lordship.' And he said: 'Servitude is by necessity, not by choice.' And he said: 'Whoever has not tasted the flavor of servitude has no life.' And he said: 'Servitude is returning in all things to God, except for necessity.' And he said: 'A servant is His servant as long as he does not seek a servant for himself; once he seeks a servant for himself, he falls from the rank of servitude and loses etiquette.' And he said: 'There is nothing in one who has not tasted the humiliation of servitude, the humiliation of asking, and the humiliation of rejection.' And he said: 'God Almighty has mentioned various types of worship, such as the patient, the truthful, the obedient, the God-fearing, and those who seek forgiveness at dawn; He ended all stations with seeking forgiveness so that the servant may become cognizant of his own shortcomings in all actions and states, and then seek forgiveness for all.' And he said: 'Whoever removes the shadow of the soul from his soul, the life of the creatures will be in his shadow.' And he said: 'Entrustment with earning is better than seclusion without earning.' And he said: 'Whoever enters this discourse with a strong attribute becomes strong and is not disgraced; and whoever enters with a claim of strength becomes weak and is disgraced.' And he said: 'If a single breath in a whole lifetime becomes correct for a servant, without hypocrisy and without a partner, the blessings of that breath will remain with him until the end of his life.' And he said: 'The gnostic is one who is not amazed by anything.' It is related that someone prayed for him, saying: 'May God give you what you hope for.' He said: 'Hope comes after knowledge; and where is knowledge?' His death was in Nishapur, and his dust is in Mashhad-e Anbar. Ahmad Aswad said: I saw in a dream that a caller called out and said to me: 'Tell Abdallah to be prepared, for you will pass away in another year.' In the morning I went and told him. He said: 'This promise is long and the duration far; who can endure the wait until another year?' May God have mercy on him.

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