Poem

بخش ۳۲ - فی‌اطّلاعه علی ضمائرالعباد / Section 32 - On His Awareness of the Inner Secrets of the Servants

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دانش او رهی رعایت کن
بخشش او مهم کفایت کن

شرب یک یک ز خلق دانسته
دادن و ضد آن توانسته

اوست مر فطرت ترا فاطر
دانش او منزه از خاطر

او ز تو داند آنچه در دل تست
زانکه او خالق دل و گل تست

چون تو دانی که او همی داند
خر طبع تو در گلت ماند

روی از آئین بد بگردانی
رای تو پرورد مسلمانی

چون به حلمش غرور خواهی داشت
نار در دل نه نور خواهی داشت

چون به علمش نگه نخواهی کرد
طمع حلم از او مدار ای مرد

علم او عقل را چراغ افروز
حلم او طبع را گناه آموز

گرنه حلمش بدی همیشه پناه
بنده کی زهره داشتی به گناه

مصلحت بین خلق بیش از آز
مطلع بر ضمیر پیش از راز

آنچه در خاطر تو او داند
لفظ ناگفته کار می راند

هیچ جانی به صبر از او نشکیفت
هیچ عقلش به زیرکی نفریفت

مطلع بر ضمایر است مدام
تو بر اندیش و کار گشت تمام

بی زبانی برش زبان دانی است
قوت جانت ز خوان بی نانیست

شادی آرست و غمگسار خدای
راز دانست و رازدار خدای

آنچه او بهر آدمی آراست
آرزوش آنچنان نداند خواست

او کمابیش خلق دانسته
دیدن و دادنش توانسته

جای تو در نعیم کرد معد
تا تو با یوم جفت کردی غد

او نهاد از پی اولوا الالباب
بیم و امید در نمایش خواب

کرد قائم برای نظم و قوام
متقاضی به رحم در ارحام

گردد از حس پای مور آگاه
مور و سنگ و شب و زمانه سیاه

سنگ در قعر بحر اگر جنبید
در شب داج علمش آنرا دید

در دل سنگ اگر بود کرمی
دارد آن کرم ذره ای جرمی

صوت تسبیح و راز پنهانش
می بداند به علم یزدانش

بنموده ترا ره آموزی
داده در سنگ کرم را روزی

هرکه او نیست هست داند کرد
هست را نیست هم تواند کرد

هست با قهر و علم یزدانی
ناتوانی نکو و نادانی

ناتوانی ترا کند دانا
عاجزی مر ترا دهد بالا

غیب خود زانکه صورت تو نگاشت
تو ندانی که غیب نتوان داشت

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او ترا بهتر از تو داند حال

تو چه گردی به گرد هزل و محال
قایل او پس تو گنگ باش و مگوی

طالب او پس تو لنگ باش و مپوی
تو مگو درد دل که او گوید

تو مجو مر ورا که او جوید
گر گناهی همی کنی اکنون

آن گناه از دو حال نیست برون
گر ندانی که می بداند حق

گویمت اینت کافر مطلق
ور بدانی که می بداند و پس

می کنی اینت شوخ دیده و خس
خود گرفتم کسیت محرم نیست

حق بداند، حق از کسی کم نیست
عفو او گیرم ار بپوشاند

نه ز تو علمش آن همی داند
توبه کن زین شنیع کردارت

ورنه بینی به روز دیدارت
نفس خود را میان حالت خویش

غرقه در قلزم خجالت خویش

English translation

His knowledge guards the path, observe it; His bounty suffices for all important matters. He knows the share of each and every creation, And has the power to give or withhold it. He is the Creator of your nature; His knowledge is free from any thoughts/doubts. He knows what is in your heart, For He is the Creator of your heart and clay. When you know that He knows, The donkey of your nature will remain stuck in your clay. You turn away from evil ways, Your judgment will nurture true submission. If you take pride in His forbearance, You will have fire in your heart, not light. If you do not pay attention to His knowledge, Do not expect forbearance from Him, O man! His knowledge lights the lamp of the intellect; His forbearance teaches the nature of man to sin. Had His forbearance not been a constant shield, How would a servant have the courage to sin? He sees the welfare of creation more than their greed; He is aware of the inner mind even before the secret is formed. He knows what is in your mind; The unspoken word drives the deed. No soul has found patience apart from Him; No intellect has deceived Him with cleverness. He is constantly aware of the inner secrets; You merely think, and the matter is done. Being tongue-tied before Him is eloquence itself; The nourishment of your soul is from a breadless table. God is the bringer of joy and the comforter of grief; God knew the secret and is the keeper of the secret. What He has prepared for humankind, Even their desire does not know how to request. He knows the more and less of creation; He is capable of seeing and giving. He made your place in Paradise ready, When you joined today with tomorrow. He placed, for the possessors of intellect, Fear and hope in the display of dreams. He established, for order and stability, The maternal urge of compassion in the wombs. He becomes aware of the touch of an ant's foot— An ant, on a rock, in the night, in a black era. If a stone moves at the bottom of the sea, In the pitch-black night, His knowledge sees it. If there is a worm in the heart of the stone, And that worm has an atom of body/mass, The sound of its glorification and its hidden secret, He knows it by His divine knowledge. He has shown you guidance, And given daily bread to the worm inside the stone. He who can make existence from non-existence, Can also make existence into non-existence. With the wrath and knowledge of God, Weakness is good, and so is ignorance. Weakness makes you wise; Helplessness elevates you. For He painted your form in the unseen; You do not know that the unseen cannot be kept hidden from Him.


He knows your state better than you do; Why do you wander around jest and absurdity? Since He is the Speaker, be mute and speak not; Since He is the Seeker, be lame and run not. Speak not of your heart's pain, for He tells it; Seek Him not, for He seeks you. If you commit a sin now, That sin is not outside of two states: If you do not know that God knows, I tell you, this is absolute disbelief. And if you know that He knows, and yet You commit it, this is being insolent and base. Suppose no one is intimate with you; God knows, and God is not less than anyone. Even if His forgiveness covers it up, Does His knowledge not know it of you? Repent of this abominable conduct of yours, Lest you see it on the day of your meeting. Your soul, in the midst of your own state, Drowned in the ocean of your own shame.

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Updated 2026-07-03

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