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حدیقة الحقیقه و شریعة الطریقه / Hadiqat al-Haqiqah (The Walled Garden of Truth)
بخش ۱۷ - اندر جان و دل و تن گوید / Section 17 - On the Soul, Heart, and Body, He Speaks

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بخش ۱۸ - اندر صفت پرورش دل گوید / Section 18 - On the Description of the Nurturing of the Heart, He Speaks

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دل قوی کند ز زحمت و بیم
جز شراب مفرح تسلیم

ایمن آنگه شوی ز محنت و تاب
که خوری شربتی ز بادهٔ ناب

تا نخوردی شراب دین مستی
چون بخوردی ز هر بلا رستی

وان مفرح که اولیا سازند
در شفاخانهٔ رضا سازند

خور اینجا گلست ازو برگرد
کانکه گل خورد روش باشد زرد

تا بدینجا ز گل نپرهیزی
کی ز گل سرخ روی برخیزی

مرد گل خواره را چو یاد دهد
آخرالامر جان به باد دهد

نان و جامهٔ سپید این منزل
نفزاید مگر سیاهی دل

دل کند سخت جامهٔ نرمت
خورش خوش برد ز سر شرمت

تو مشو غره بر نکویی پوست
که خلق پوش مرد خلق نکوست

ناخوشی خوب و نغز و زیبا نیست
خوی خوش با کلاه و دیبا نیست

نفس حسی به خوردن ارزانیست
غذی جان ز خوان بی نانیست

غافلان فربه از بطر زانند
که غم جان و جامه کم دانند

هر دلی را که غم بود مسکون
نه دلست آنکه هست خانهٔ خون

مرد نبود که گرد خود پوید
مرد راه نجات خود جوید

تا کی از کنج خانه بیرون آی
از چنین خانه ای سوی صحرا

من غلام گزیده مردانم
باد دایم فدایشان جانم

English translation

Only the exhilarating wine of submission Can make the heart strong against trouble and fear. You become safe from affliction and burning When you drink a draught of pure wine. Until you drink the wine of religion, you remain drunk (in ignorance), But when you drink it, you are delivered from every affliction. And that exhilarating draught which the saints prepare, They prepare in the hospital of contentment. Food here is clay, turn away from it, For whoever eats clay, his face turns pale. As long as you do not abstain from clay here, How will you rise from the clay with a rosy face? When the clay-eating man is reminded, Ultimately he will give his life to the wind. The bread and white garments of this abode Increase nothing but the blackness of the heart. Your soft garments make the heart hard, Delicious food removes the shame from your head. Do not be deceived by the goodness of the skin, For the man wearing rags is the one with good character. Unpleasantness is not good, elegant, or beautiful, Good character is not found with crowns and silk brocade. The sensory soul is suited for eating, The food of the spirit is from a table without bread. The heedless are fat from insolence because They know little of the sorrow of the soul and care only for clothes. Every heart in which sorrow (of this world) resides Is not a heart, it is but a house of blood. He is not a man who revolves around himself; A true man seeks the path of his own salvation. How long? Come out from the corner of the house, From such a house towards the open plain. I am the slave of the chosen men, May my soul always be a sacrifice for them.

Updated 2026-07-03

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