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حدیقة الحقیقه و شریعة الطریقه / Hadiqat al-Haqiqah (The Walled Garden of Truth)

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بخش ۱۶ - التمثیل / Section 16 - The Allegory

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از پی نای و چنگ بوالخداش
خانه ای تنگ ساخت بوالنباش

تا همی گربه نای دارد و چنگ
موش را چیست به ز خانهٔ تنگ

تا بود گربه مهتر بازار
نبود موش جلد دوکان دار

تا بود گربه در کمان کمین
موش را گلشن است زیر زمین

تیز کرده است ای خردمندان
گربهٔ مرگ چنگل و دندان

تا کرا همچو موش دریابد
سوی جانش چو گربه بشتابد

اندرین کارگه به روز و به شب
چنگلش تاب دار و جان در تب

چون ز تاب و تبت کشید به دم
از وجودت ربود سوی عدم

می نوازد همی ترا الحق
آن طبیب طمع خر احمق

می نداند ز روی کم عقلی
پشت معنی نمود بی نقلی

چنگ و دندان چو مرگ دریازد
موش را گربه هیچ ننوازد

پیشوای کسی که بنده بود
پند او از نبی بسنده بود

با تن دردناک و با دل ریش
نرسد کس به کامهٔ دل خویش

English translation

For the sake of the flute and the harp of the trickster, The grave-robber built a narrow house. As long as the cat has the flute and the harp, What is better for the mouse than a narrow house? As long as the cat is the master of the market, The agile mouse will not be a shopkeeper. As long as the cat is lurking in the bow's ambush, The mouse's garden is beneath the earth. O wise ones, the cat of death Has sharpened its claws and teeth. Whomever it finds like a mouse, It rushes towards their soul like a cat. In this workshop, by day and by night, Its claws are twisting and the soul is in fever. When it draws you in with a breath from your fever and agitation, It plucks you from existence toward non-existence. That foolish, greed-eating physician Is indeed caressing you. Out of lack of intellect, he does not know That he showed the back of meaning without any transmission. When death stretches out its claws and teeth, The cat never caresses the mouse. The leader of one who is a servant, Their advice from the Prophet was sufficient. With a painful body and a wounded heart, No one reaches the desire of their own heart.

Updated 2026-07-03

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