1Cademy - بخش ۵۷ - در نصیحت فرزند ارجمند رزقه الله تعالی سعادالدارین و اوصله من مضیق خیر العلم الی فسح مشاهد العین / Section 57 - On Advising the Honorable Son, May Allah the Exalted Grant Him the Felicity of Both Abodes and Convey Him from the Narrow Pass of the Best of Knowledge to the Expanse of the Witnessings of the Eye

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بخش ۵۷ - در نصیحت فرزند ارجمند رزقه الله تعالی سعادالدارین و اوصله من مضیق خیر العلم الی فسح مشاهد العین / Section 57 - On Advising the Honorable Son, May Allah the Exalted Grant Him the Felicity of Both Abodes and Convey Him from the Narrow Pass of the Best of Knowledge to the Expanse of the Witnessings of the Eye

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از فضل و ادب دهد قبولت
دارد نگه از ره فضولت

شغلی که نباید و نشاید
از پاکی جوهرت نیاید

در کسب کمال بایدت جهد
در به طلبی به سر بری عهد

گرداب طلب وسیع دور است
دریای علوم دور غور است

قانع نشوی به هر چه یابی
از خوب به خوبتر شتابی

لیکن مکش از فراخ درسی
خط بر ورق خدای ترسی

چون فلسفیان دین برانداز
از فلسفه کار دین مکن ساز

پیش تو رموز آسمانی
افسون زمینیان چه خوانی

یثرب اینجا مشو چو دونان
اکسیر طلب ز خاک یونان

گر حرف شناس دین زبون نیست
از سور مدینه ره برون نیست

در نیفه نافه مشک چین است
در ناف مدینه مشک دین است

تا نافه گشای گشته آن ناف
مشک است گرفته قاف تا قاف

ارباب هوا همه زکامند
زان نکهت ازان تهی مشامند

قدوه ز مقیم آن حرم کن
سر در ره اقتدا قدم کن

بر شارع ناقه اش نظر نه
هر جا که قدم نهاد سر نه

زین گونه چو باشی اقتدایی
آخر برساندت به جایی

هشدار که باشد اندرین راه
از حشمت و جاه کند صد چاه

از کور دلی ز ره نیفتی
چون کوردلان به چه نیفتی

هشدار که رهزنان تقدیر
ز سیم و زرند کرده زنجیر

زنجیری سیم و زر نگردی
ساکن نشوی ز رهنوردی

هشدار که هر ز ره فتاده
غولیست میاه ره ستاده

ناگه ندمد به سر فسونت
وز راه نیفکند برونت

ره نیست جز آنکه مصطفی رفت
تا مقعد صدق راست پا رفت

می کن برهش نگاه و می رو
می بین پی او به راه و می رو

زان ره که ز پای او نشان نیست
برگرد که جز هلاک جان نیست

در طبع تو گر قبول پند است
این پند که گفته شد بسنده ست

گفتیم سخنی که گفتنی بود
سفتم گهری که سفتنی بود

از کار بشد زبان و دستم
خاموش شدم قلم شکستم

ای تازه نظر به لوح کونین
چون مردم دیده قرالعین

سال تو اگر چه هفت و هشت است
دل را به هوات بازگشت است

این لطف که در سرشت داری
دارم به خدای امیدواری

کان روز که سربلند گردی
دانا دل و هوشمند گردی

English translation

May He grant you acceptance through grace and courtesy, And keep you from the road of meddling. An occupation that ought not and befits not Would not issue from the purity of your essence. In the acquiring of perfection you must strive; In seeking, fulfill your covenant to the end. The whirlpool of seeking is wide and far; The sea of the sciences is deep of fathom. Be not content with whatever you find; Hasten from the good to the better. But do not, from some ample lesson, Draw a line across the page of godly fear. Like the philosophers, do not cast down religion; Do not make of philosophy the business of faith. Before you lie the heavenly mysteries— Why do you recite the spells of the earthlings? Here be as Yathrib (Medina); be not like the base ones Who seek the elixir from the soil of Greece. If the knower of religion's word is not abased, There is no way out beyond the wall of the City. In the pod of the musk-bag is the musk of China; In the navel of Medina is the musk of religion. Since that navel has become the opener of the musk-pod, Musk has filled the world from Qaf to Qaf. The lords of passion are all afflicted with catarrh; Of that fragrance their nostrils are empty. Take your exemplar from the Dweller of that Sanctuary; Set your head as a foot upon the path of following. Keep your gaze upon the road of his she-camel; Wherever it set its foot, there set your head. When in this manner you are a follower, in the end it will bring you to a place. Beware, for on this road there may be, out of pomp and rank, a hundred pits. Through blindness of heart do not fall from the way; like the blind-hearted, do not fall into the pit. Beware, for the highwaymen of destiny have forged a chain of silver and gold. Do not become chained by silver and gold; do not fall still and cease from wayfaring. Beware, for everyone fallen from the way is a ghoul standing in the middle of the road. Lest of a sudden it breathe its spell upon your head and cast you out from the way. There is no way save that which Mustafa trod, until his foot went straight to the Seat of Truth. Keep looking upon his road, and go; behold his footprint on the way, and go. From that road where there is no trace of his foot, turn back, for there is naught but the destruction of the soul. If in your nature there is acceptance of counsel, this counsel that has been spoken is enough. We have said a word that was worth the saying; I have pierced a pearl that was worth the piercing. My tongue and my hand have ceased from their work; I fell silent, I broke the pen. O you, fresh of sight upon the tablet of the two worlds, like the pupil of the eye, the coolness of the eye. Though your years be but seven and eight, my heart's return is ever to your love. This grace that you bear in your nature— I hold my hope in God because of it, that on the day you rise to be exalted you will become wise of heart and keen of mind.

Updated 2026-07-19

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