1Cademy - بخش ۵۲ - در بیان حال مجنون که وی از صورت مجاز به معنی حقیقت رسیده بود و از جام صورت شراب معنی چشیده / Section 52 - On Describing the State of Majnun, Who Had Passed from the Form of Metaphor to the Meaning of Reality, and Had Tasted from the Cup of Form the Wine of Meaning

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Haft Awrang

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بخش ۵۲ - در بیان حال مجنون که وی از صورت مجاز به معنی حقیقت رسیده بود و از جام صورت شراب معنی چشیده / Section 52 - On Describing the State of Majnun, Who Had Passed from the Form of Metaphor to the Meaning of Reality, and Had Tasted from the Cup of Form the Wine of Meaning

Original content

مستیش ز باده بود نز جام
از جام رمیده شد سرانجام

بشکفت به بوستان رازش
گلهای حقیقت از مجازش

چشمه ز شکاف سنگ جوشید
دریا شد و سنگ را بپوشید

لیلی طلبی او در این جوش
بر شاهد عشق بود روپوش

زین نام دهانش پر شکر بود
لیکن مقصود ازو دگر بود

عاشق که ز مهر دوست کاهد
مه گوید و روی دوست خواهد

آرند که صوفیی صفاکیش
برداشت به خواب پرده از پیش

مجنون بر وی شد آشکارا
با او نه به صورت مدارا

گفت ای شده از خرابی حال
بر نقش مجاز فتنه سی سال

چون کرد اجل نبرد با تو
معشوق ازل چه کرد با تو

گفتا به سرای قربتم خواند
بر صدر سریر قرب بنشاند

گفت ای به بساط عشق گستاخ
شرمت نامد که چون درین کاخ

خوردی می ما ز جام لیلی
خواندی ما را به نام لیلی

بر من چو در خطاب بگشود
با من جز ازین عتاب ننمود

جامی بنگر کز آفرینش
هر ذره به چشم اهل بینش

از خم ازل خجسته جامیست
گرداگردش نوشته نامیست

آن جام چه جام جام باقی
وان نام چه نام نام ساقی

از جام به باده گیر آرام
وز نام نگر به صاحب نام

در صاحب نام کن نشان گم
در هستی وی شو از جهان گم

تا باز رهی ز هستی خویش
وز ظلمت خود پرستی خویش

جایی برسی کزان گذر نیست
جز بی خبری ازان خبر نیست

با تو ز جهان بی نشانی
گفتیم نشان دگر تو دانی

هان تا نبری گمان که مجنون
بر حسن مجاز بود مفتون

در اول اگر چه داشت میلی
با جرعه کشی ز جام لیلی

اندر آخر که گشت ازان مست
افکند ز دست جام و بشکست

English translation

His intoxication was from the wine, not from the cup; in the end he fled from the cup. In the garden his secret blossomed: the roses of reality out of his metaphor. A spring gushed from the cleft of the rock, became a sea and covered the rock. His seeking of Layla, amid this turmoil, was but a veil over the true Witness of love. With this name his mouth was full of sugar, yet his true aim by it was something else. The lover who wastes away from love of the Friend says 'moon,' yet desires the face of the Friend. They relate that a Sufi of pure faith had, in a dream, the veil lifted from before him. Majnun appeared to him openly, with him showing no mere formal courtesy. He said: O you who, from the ruin of your state, were enthralled by the image of metaphor for thirty years, when death did battle with you, what did the eternal Beloved do with you? He said: He summoned me to the abode of nearness, and seated me at the head of the throne of proximity. He said: O you, so bold upon the carpet of love, were you not ashamed that, while in this palace, you drank Our wine from the cup of Layla, and called upon Us by the name of Layla? When He opened His address to me, He showed me nothing but this reproach. O Jami, behold that, since creation, every atom, to the eye of the discerning, is a blessed cup from the jar of eternity, and around it a name is written. That cup—what cup? The everlasting cup. And that name—what name? The name of the Cupbearer. From the cup, take your rest in the wine, and from the name, look toward the Owner of the name. In the Owner of the name, lose your own mark; in His being, become lost to the world, so that you may be freed from your own existence, and from the darkness of your self-worship. You reach a place from which there is no passing; of it there is no news but unknowing. Of the world without trace we have told you a sign; the rest, you yourself must come to know. Beware—do not suppose that Majnun was enthralled by metaphorical beauty. Though at first he had an inclination toward sipping from the cup of Layla, in the end, when he grew drunk from it, he cast the cup from his hand and shattered it.

Updated 2026-07-20

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