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بخش ۸۵ - در ترغیب بر تلاوت قرآن و وصف مصحف که محل کتاب اوست / Section 85 - On Encouraging the Recitation of the Quran and Describing the Mushaf as the Locus of His Book

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چون ز نفس و حدیثش آیی تنگ
به کلام قدیم کن آهنگ

مصحفی جو چو شاهد مهوش
بوسه زن در کنار خویشش کش

شاهد گلعذار و مشکین خط
چهره آراسته به عجم و نقط

بلکه باغ بهشت و روضه حور
سبزه اش مشک و تربتش کافور

جدولش چون چهار جوی بهشت
فیض بخش از چهار سوی بهشت

گرد جدول نقوش اعشارش
رسته گلهاست گرد انهارش

سوره هایش همه قصار و طوال
قصرها زان بهشت فرخ فال

کرده همواره زان قصور شگرف
جلوه حوران قاصرات الطرف

سر هر سوره بر مثال دری
که ازان در توان بر آن گذری

رسد از هر دری گه و بیگه
طالبان را صلا که بسم الله

عشر او کرده نشر بر و نوال
خمس او گشته شمس اوج کمال

آیتش غایت امانی کون
وقف بر وی همه معانی عون

کلماتش مفرق ظلمات
حرفها ظرفهای فیض حیات

چون بروج نجوم سیاره
متجزی شده به سی پاره

جزو جزوش حقایق اسرار
هر یکی را دقایق بسیار

به کنار این نگار فرخ فر
چون در آری به غیر او منگر

صرف او کن حواس جسمانی
وقف او کن قوای روحانی

دل به معنی زبان به لفظ سپار
چشم بر خط و نقط و عجم گذار

گوش ازو معدن جواهر کن
هوش ازو مخزن سرائر کن

در ادایش مکن زبان کج مج
حرفهایش ادا کن از مخرج

دور باش از تهتک و تعجیل
کام گیر از تأمل و ترتیل

رغم طبع جهول و نفس عجول
جهد در عرض کن نه اندر طول

رخت خویش از میانه بیرون بر
پی به وحدتسرای بیچون بر

خویش را چون درخت موسی دان
کامد از وی کلام حق به میان

سمع خود را به حکم شرع و قیاس
عین سمع خدای پاک شناس

گر کند جست و جوی حجت کس
حصر و هوالسمیع حجت بس

هست رشحی دگر ازین منبع
کنت سمعا له فبی یسمع

بار خود دور کن که جز باری
در میان نیست سامع و قاری

به زبان درخت و سمع کلیم
می کند عرض خود کلام قدیم

زین شهود آنچه سازدت مهجور
دیو رهزن بود مشو مغرور

به خدا بر ز شر دیو پناه
که خداگفت فاستعذ بالله

English translation

When you grow weary of the self and its chatter, Direct your course toward the Pre-eternal Word. Seek a copy of the Quran (Mushaf) beautiful like a moon-faced beloved, Kiss it and fold it into your embrace. A rose-cheeked beloved with dark, musky script, Its face adorned with diacritics and dots; Nay, it is rather the garden of Paradise and the meadow of the houris, Its greenery is musk and its soil is camphor. Its margins are like the four rivers of Paradise, Bestowing grace from the four directions of Heaven. Around the margins, the symbols of its decimal verses Are like flowers blooming along the banks of its streams. Its surahs, both short and long, Are the palaces of that auspicious Paradise. From those wondrous palaces, the bashful, downcast-eyed houris Ever display their beauty. The beginning of each surah is like a gateway, Through which one may pass. From every gateway, early and late, Comes the call to the seekers: 'In the name of Allah.' Its tenth-verse divisions spread righteousness and favor; Its fifth-verse divisions have become the sun at the zenith of perfection. Its verses are the ultimate desire of existence; All meanings of divine assistance are dedicated to it. Its words disperse the darknesses; Its letters are vessels for the effusion of life. Like the constellations of the wandering stars, It is divided into thirty parts. Every single part holds the truths of secrets, Each possessing many subtleties. When you hold this gloriously auspicious beloved close to you, Look upon no other. Devote your physical senses to it, And dedicate your spiritual faculties to it. Surrender your heart to its meaning and your tongue to its words; Keep your eyes upon the script, the dots, and the diacritics. Make your ear a mine of jewels through it, And make your mind a repository of secrets through it. Do not let your tongue stumble in its pronunciation; Articulate its letters from their proper articulation points. Keep far from irreverence and haste; Take delight in reflection and measured recitation. Despite the ignorant nature and the hasty self, Strive for depth rather than length. Carry your own baggage out of the way, And find your path to the incomparable house of Unity. Regard yourself like the tree of Moses, From which the Word of God came forth. Deem your own hearing, by religious law and analogy, To be the very hearing of the Pure God. If anyone seeks a proof, The restriction 'And He is the All-Hearing' is proof enough. There is another drop flowing from this source: 'I became his hearing, so through Me he hears.' Cast off your own burden, for except the Creator, There is no other hearer or reciter in between. Through the tongue of the tree and the hearing of Moses, The Eternal Word manifests itself. Whatever alienates you from this witnessing Is a demon bandit; do not be deceived. Seek refuge in God from the evil of the demon, For God has said: 'So seek refuge in God.'

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