1Cademy - بخش ۷ - جواب از این سؤال که چون دعای مظلوم مستجاب است چرا دعای اکثر مظلومان از اجابت در حجاب است / Section 7 - The Answer to This Question: Since the Prayer of the Oppressed is Answered, Why is the Prayer of Most of the Oppressed Veiled from Being Answered

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Haft Awrang

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بخش ۷ - جواب از این سؤال که چون دعای مظلوم مستجاب است چرا دعای اکثر مظلومان از اجابت در حجاب است / Section 7 - The Answer to This Question: Since the Prayer of the Oppressed is Answered, Why is the Prayer of Most of the Oppressed Veiled from Being Answered

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شنیدم که این نکته را ساده ای
بپرسید روزی ز آزاده ای

که بسیار مظلوم را دیده ایم
فراوان دعاهاش بشنیده ایم

یکی خصم را بسته غم نکرد
سر مویی از فرق او کم نکرد

بگفت آن که سنگ از دمش موم نیست
اگر زیر تیغ است مظلوم نیست

ستمکش اگر نی ستمگر بود
قبول دعایش مقرر بود

وگر شغل او هم ستم پیشگیست
دعای وی از کوته اندیشگیست

چو باشد دلش را سوی ظلم رو
نیاید دعایش فرو جز به رو

درین ظلمت آباد پر گفت و گوی
بسی ظالمانند مظلوم روی

غلام از ستم چوب بر خر شکست
به پاداش آن خواجه اش سر شکست

زد انبان آن بیوه را رخنه موش
برآورد گربه ز جانش خروش

بر آن مور گنجشک هم زور کرد
ازو دیگری معده معمور کرد

نیابد امان دیگری نیز هم
ز چیزی شود پست و ناچیز هم

همی رو چنین تا رسد سلسله
به جایی کز آنجا نشاید گله

از آنجا همه عدل مطلق بود
حق محض و خیر محقق بود

چو آنجا رسیدی خموشی به است
ز هر گفت و گو تیز هوشی به است

بیا ساقیا برگ عشرت بساز
مکن در به روی حریفان فراز

که از دولت شه نه کاووس و کی
بگیریم جام و بنوشیم می

بیا مطربا مرحبایی بزن
دعایی بگوی و نوایی بزن

که طبع شه از هر غم آزاد باد
به عدلش همه عالم آباد باد

English translation

I heard that a simple man once asked this subtle point of a free and noble man: We have seen many an oppressed person, and heard abundant prayers of theirs; Not one has bound his foe in sorrow, nor lessened a hair's breadth from his enemy's crown. He replied: The one whose breath does not soften stone to wax — if he lies under the sword, he is not [truly] oppressed. If the sufferer of wrong were not himself a wrongdoer, the acceptance of his prayer would be assured; But if his own trade too is the practice of oppression, his prayer springs from short-sightedness. When his heart is turned toward injustice, his prayer comes down upon none but his own face. In this dark-dwelling world full of talk, many are oppressors wearing the face of the oppressed. The slave, out of cruelty, broke his stick upon the donkey; in recompense his master broke his head. The mouse gnawed a hole in that widow's sack; the cat then drew a cry of anguish from its soul. The sparrow too forced its strength upon the ant; and another filled its belly from that sparrow. That other too finds no safety in turn; it too is brought low and made worthless by something else. Go on thus until the chain arrives at a place from which no complaint is fitting. From there onward all is absolute justice, pure truth and realized good. When you have reached that place, silence is best; keener than any talk is a sharp-witted stillness. Come, O cupbearer, set out the means of joy; do not shut the door in the face of the companions, That by the fortune of the king — not of Kavus or Kay — we may take the cup and drink the wine. Come, O minstrel, strike up a note of welcome; say a prayer and play a melody, That the king's nature be freed from every grief, and that by his justice all the world be made prosperous.

Updated 2026-07-20

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