1Cademy - بخش ۷ - در معراج وی که از آفتاب رفیع الدرجات ذوالعرش سایه ایست و از معارج قدر آن از ذروه عرش تا حضیض فرش پایه ای / Section 7 - On His Ascension (Miraj), which is but a shadow from the Sun of the Exalted Degrees of the Lord of the Throne, and whose steps of majesty span from the apex of the Throne to the depth of the Earth

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بخش ۷ - در معراج وی که از آفتاب رفیع الدرجات ذوالعرش سایه ایست و از معارج قدر آن از ذروه عرش تا حضیض فرش پایه ای / Section 7 - On His Ascension (Mi'raj), which is but a shadow from the Sun of the Exalted Degrees of the Lord of the Throne, and whose steps of majesty span from the apex of the Throne to the depth of the Earth

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شبی دیباچه صبح سعادت
ز دولت های روز افزون ز یادت

ز قدر او مثالی لیلت القدر
ز نور او براتی لیلت البدر

سواد طره اش خجلت ده حور
بیاض غره اش «نور علی نور»

نسیمش جعد سنبل شانه کرده
هوایش اشک شبنم دانه کرده

به مسمار ثوابت چرخ سیار
ببسته بر جهان درهای ادبار

گرفته گرگ و میش آرام در وی
گوزن و شیر با هم رام در وی

طرب را چون سحر خندان ازو لب
گریزان روز محنت زو شباشب

درین شب آن چراغ چشم بینش
سزای آفرین از آفرینش

چو دولت شد ز بدخواهان نهانی
سوی دولتسرای ام هانی

به پهلو تکیه بر مهد زمین کرد
زمین را مهد جان نازنین کرد

دلش بیدار و چشمش در شکر خواب
ندیده چشم بخت این خواب در خواب

درآمد ناگهان ناموس اکبر
سبکروتر ازین طاووس اخضر

بر او مالید پر کای خواجه برخیز
که امشب خوابت آمد دولت انگیز

برون بر یک زمان زین خوابگه رخت
تو بخت عالمی بیخواب به بخت

پسیچ راه عشرت کردم اینک
براقی برق سیر آوردم اینک

جهنده بر زمین خوش بادپایی
پرنده در هوا فرخ همایی

چو عقل مینوی افلاک گردی
چو فکر هندسی گیتی نوردی

نه دست کس عنان او بسوده
نه از پایی رکابش گشته سوده

چو آن دل کز بتان دارد فراغی
ندیده ران او آسیب داغی

گرش بایستی آخور بهر خوردن
گرفتش شغل او گردون به گردن

ز زین بی رنج پشت نازنینش
ندیده رنجی از کس پشت زینش

ازان دولتسرا چون خواجه دین
خرامان شد به عزم خانه زین

شد از سبوحیان گردون صدا ده
که «سبحان الذی اسری بعبده »

زد از سم آن براق برق رفتار
ز مکه سکه بر اقصی درم وار

زدش در نیم لحظه بلکه کمتر
ز دور کاسه سم حلقه بر در

در آن مسجد امام انبیا شد
صف پیشینیان را پیشوا شد

وز آنجا شد بر این فیروزه خرگاه
چو هاله خیمه زد پیرامن ماه

کشیدش بر جبین داغ غلامی
بر آمد زانگهش نام تمامی

وز آنجا شد به بالاتر سبک خیز
عطارد را به فرق سر عطا ریز

وز آنجا کرد سوی زهره آهنگ
به دامان وفایش زهره زد چنگ

به قصد شستن پا زین گلابه
چهارم چرخش آورد آفتابه

چو زد بر کاخ پنجم اشبهش گام
گرفت از نعل بوسش بهره بهرام

فشاند از لعل لب بر مشتری در
شد از گوهر چو نقطه مشت او پر

به هفتم کاخ چون نعلین سودش
زحل حل یافت هر مشکل که بودش

وز آن پس قصر هشتم ساخت مسکن
ثوابت را بدو شد چشم روشن

بنات النعش و پروین لب گشودند
به نثر و نظم خود او را ستودند

ز مهر شمع رویش نسر طایر
چو پروانه به گردش گشت دایر

فتاد از شوق سرو دلربایش
چو سایه نسر واقع زیر پایش

چو شد بر چرخ اطلس عبره اندیش
به پای اندازش افکند اطلس خویش

وز آنجا چون به شاخ سدره ره جست
ز پریدن پر جبریل شد سست

به تدبیرش سرافیل از کمین جست
ز رفرف حجله آیین هودجش بست

چو رفرف شد مشرف از وجودش
گرفت از دست رفرف عرش زودش

به دست عرش تن چون خرقه بگذاشت
علم بر لامکان بی خرقه افراشت

گلی بردند ازین دهلیزه پست
بر آن درگاه والا دست بر دست

جهت را مهره از ششدر رهانید
مکان را مرکب از تنگی جهانید

مکان یافت خالی از مکان نیز
که تن محرم نبود آنجا و جان نیز

قدم زنگ حدوث از جان او شست
وجوب آلایش امکان او شست

یکی ماند آن هم از نعت یکی پاک
ز بسیاری برون وز اندکی پاک

بدید آنچه از حد دیدن برون بود
مپرس از ما ز کیفیت که چون بود

نه چندی گنجد آنجا و نه چونی
فرو بند از کمی لب وز فزونی

شنید آنگه کلامی نی به آواز
معانی در معانی راز در راز

نه آگاهی ازو کام و زبان را
نه همراهی بدو نطق و بیان را

ز درکش گوش جان را باد در مشت
ز حرفش دست دل را کوته انگشت

لباس فهم بر بالای او تنگ
سمند عقل در صحرای او لنگ

ز گفتن برتر است آن وز شنیدن
زبان زین گفت و گو باید بریدن

منه جامی ز حد خود برون پای
وز این دریای جانفرسا برون آی

درین مشهد ز گویایی مزن دم
سخن را ختم کن والله اعلم

English translation

One night, the preface to the morning of felicity, increasing day by day with the excess of fortune, A night whose worth was a representation of the Night of Qadr, and whose light was a warrant of the night of the Full Moon. The darkness of its tresses brought shame to the Houris, the brightness of its forehead was 'Light upon Light'. Its breeze combed the curls of the hyacinth, its air turned the tears of dew into pearly beads. With the nails of the fixed stars, the revolving heaven had locked the doors of misfortune upon the world. The wolf and the sheep had found peace in it, the deer and the lion were tamed together in it. Through it, the lips of joy were smiling like the dawn; the day of affliction fled overnight from it. On this night, that lamp of the eye of insight, who deserved praise from all creation, Like fortune hidden from ill-wishers, retired toward the palace of Umm Hani. He leaned his side upon the cradle of the earth, making the earth the cradle of his precious soul. His heart was awake and his eyes in sweet slumber— the eye of fortune had never seen such a dream within a dream. Suddenly, the Supreme Secret (Archangel Gabriel) entered, swifter than this green peacock (the sky). He rubbed his wings against him, saying: 'O Master, arise! For tonight your sleep has brought about great fortune.' 'Remove your baggage for a moment from this sleeping chamber; you are the fortune of the world, may your fortune never sleep!' 'Behold, I have prepared the path of delight; I have brought Buraq, swifter than lightning!' 'A fleet-footed steed leaping upon the earth, a blessed Huma bird flying through the air.' 'Like the celestial intellect, a wanderer of the heavens; like geometric thought, a traveler of the universe.' 'No man's hand has touched its reins, nor has any foot worn down its stirrups.' 'Like a heart free from idols, its thigh has never suffered the pain of a brand.' 'If it needed a manger to feed, the heaven would have taken that duty upon its neck.' 'Its precious back suffered no pain from the saddle, nor did the back of its saddle suffer pain from any rider.' When the Master of Religion departed from that palace with the intent of mounting the saddle, A voice arose from the angels of heaven, saying: 'Glory be to Him Who took His servant by night!' With the hoof of that lightning-paced Buraq, he stamped Mecca's coin upon Al-Aqsa like a dirham. In half a moment, or even less, the curve of its hoof knocked like a ring on the door. In that mosque, he became the Imam of the prophets, the leader of the ranks of those of old. And from there, he ascended to this turquoise pavilion (the sky), pitching his tent like a halo around the moon. [The sky] drew the brand of servitude upon its forehead, and from then on, its perfect reputation arose. From there, he swiftly went higher, scattering gifts upon the crown of Mercury. From there, he set out toward Venus; Venus clung to the skirt of his fidelity. With the intention of washing his feet from this earthly clay, the fourth heaven brought him an ewer (the Sun). When his grey steed stepped into the fifth palace, Mars received the blessing of kissing his horseshoe. He scattered pearls from his ruby lips upon Jupiter, whose hand became full of gems like points. When he rubbed his sandals in the seventh palace, Saturn found a solution to every difficulty it had. Thereafter, he made his dwelling in the eighth palace, and the fixed stars were enlightened by him. The Great Bear and the Pleiades opened their lips, praising him in prose and verse. With love for the candle of his face, the Flying Eagle star revolved around him like a moth. Out of yearning for his captivating cypress stature, the Falling Eagle star fell beneath his feet like a shadow. As he contemplated the crystalline heaven, it threw its own satin cloak as a carpet at his feet. And when from there he sought the way to the branch of the Lote Tree, Gabriel's wings grew weak from flying. To assist him, Israfil sprang from his ambush, fashioning a canopy-like litter from the Rafraf. When the Rafraf was honored by his presence, the Divine Throne swiftly took him from the hand of the Rafraf. In the hands of the Throne, he left his body behind like a Sufi cloak, and raised his banner over the Placeless without a cloak. They carried a flower from this lowly vestibule (earth) hand to hand to that exalted court. He freed the die of direction from the six-door obstacle, and made the steed of space leap out of its narrowness. He found a placeless realm, free even from space, where neither the body nor the soul was a confidant. Eternity washed the rust of temporality from his soul, and Necessity cleansed the defilement of contingency from him. He remained as One, pure even from the description of oneness, beyond multiplicity and free from paucity. He saw that which was beyond the limit of sight— do not ask us how it was! Neither quantity nor quality fits there; seal your lips from both scarcity and abundance. Then he heard a speech, yet not with sound: meaning within meaning, secret within secret. Neither the palate nor the tongue had awareness of it, nor could speech or expression accompany it. From its comprehension, the ear of the soul held only wind in its fist; from its letters, the hand of the heart was short-fingered. The robe of understanding was too tight for its stature; the steed of intellect was lame in its desert. That is beyond speaking and beyond hearing; the tongue must be severed from this discourse. O Jami, do not step beyond your limit; emerge from this soul-exhausting sea. In this presence, do not speak a word; conclude your speech, and God knows best.

Updated 2026-07-10

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