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بخش ۱۹ - عقد چهارم در استدلال به ظهور آثار وجود آفریدگار سبحانه ما اعز شأنه و ما اجلی برهانه / Section 19 - The Fourth Knot on Reasoning by the Manifestation of the Effects of the Existence of the Creator, Glorified Is He, How Mighty Is His Glory and How Manifest Is His Proof

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ای درین کارگه هوش ربای
روز و شب چشم نه و گوش گشای

نه به چشم تو ز دیدن اثری
نه به گوشت ز شنیدن خبری

نرگس این چمنی کز لب جوی
خوش نهاده ست نظر سوی به سوی

نه ز رخسار گلش دیداری
نه به سرو و سمنش بازاری

گل این باغچه ای کز سر شاخ
صبحدم گوش گشاده ست فراخ

نه ز بلبل شنود آوازی
نز لب غنچه نهانی رازی

نکنی گوش و نبینی چندین
کور و کر چند نشینی چندین

چند گاهی ره آگاهان گیر
ترک همراهی بیراهان گیر

پرده از چشم جهان بین کن باز
بنگر پیش و پس و شیب و فراز

بین که این دایره گردان چیست
دور او گرد تو جاویدان چیست

بر سرت چتر مرصع که فراشت
بر وی این نقش ملمع که نگاشت

مهر را نور ده روز که کرد
ماه را شمع شب افروز که کرد

کیست میزان ده دکان سپهر
کفه سازنده آن از مه و مهر

تا به میزان چو دکان آرایند
عمر بر خلق جهان پیمایند

کیست کز دست دل آتشناک
صبح چون اطلس کحلی زده چاک

سوزن و رشته ز خورشید اندوخت
وصله زرد قصب بر وی دوخت

کیست کز طاق فلک چون خم زد
زیر او چار گهر بر هم زد

چون گهرها به هم آمیخته شد
نو به نو صورتی انگیخته شد

ساخت گردآوری عالم را
خاتم جمله صور آدم را

بهر این کارگه خونخواره
نیست از کارگزاری چاره

عین ممکن به براهین خرد
نتواند که شود هست به خود

چون ز هستیش نباشد اثری
چون به هستی رسد از وی دگری

ذات نایافته از هستی بخش
چون تواند که بود هستی بخش

خشک ابری که بود ز آب تهی
ناید از وی صفت آب دهی

هر چه آن را بود از بود نشان
گر بود منحصر اندر امکان

لازم آید که نیاید به وجود
هیچ موجود درین عرصه بود

نقش بی خامه نقاش که دید
نغمه بی زخمه مطرب که شنید

ناید از ممکن تنها چون کار
حاجت افتاد به واجب ناچار

او به خود هست و جهان هست بدو
نیست دان هر چه نه پیوست بدو

جنبش از وی رسد این سلسله را
روی در وی بود این قافله را

چون خلد جنبش موریت به پشت
زود آری سوی آن مور انگشت

زان خلش هستی او را دانی
به سر انگشت ز پشتش رانی

باورت ناید کاندر ژنده
خلدت پشت نه زان جنبنده

عالم و این همه آثار در او
چرخ و این جنبش بسیار در او

پرده سازند و نو اگر پیوست
که پس پرده نواسازی هست

همه را جنبش و آرام ازوست
همه را دانه ازو دام ازوست

زوست جنبنده نه از باد درخت
زوست فرخنده نه از گردون بخت

او برد تشنگی تشنه نه آب
او دهد شادی مستان نه شراب

غنچه در باغ نخندد بی او
میوه بر شاخ نبندد بی او

کارگر او دگران آلت کار
کارگر یافتی آلت بگذار

کار او کارگر او آلت اوست
اوست مغز و دگران جمله چو پوست

مغزخواهی نظر از پوست ببند
مغز جویی نکند پوست پسند

حرف غیر از ورق دل بتراش
خاطر از ناخن فکرت مخراش

از همه ساده کن آیینه خویش
وز همه پاک بشو سینه خویش

تا شود گنج بقا سینه تو
غرق نور ازل آیینه تو

طی شود وادی برهان و قیاس
تو بمانی و دل دوست شناس

دوست آنجا که بود جلوه نمای
حجت عقل بود تفرقه زای

چون نماید به تو این دولت روی
رو در آن آر و به کس هیچ مگوی

زانکه از گوهر عرفان خالی
به بود کیسه استدلالی

English translation

O you in this mind-robbing workshop, Keep your eyes open and ears alert day and night!

Yet there is no trace of seeing in your eyes, And no news of hearing in your ears.

You are like the narcissus of this meadow, which from the stream's edge Has beautifully cast its gaze in every direction,

But sees nothing of the rose's cheek, Nor has any trade with the cypress and jasmine.

You are the rose of this garden which, from the tip of the branch, At dawn has opened its ears wide,

Yet hears no song from the nightingale, Nor any hidden secret from the bud's lip.

You neither listen nor see all this; How long will you sit like this, blind and deaf?

For a while, take the path of the aware, And abandon the company of those who have lost their way.

Draw back the veil from your world-beholding eye; Look ahead, behind, below, and above!

See what this revolving sphere is, And what its eternal revolution around you is.

Who raised the jeweled canopy over your head? Who painted this variegated design upon it?

Who made the sun the light-giver of the day? Who made the moon the night-illuminating candle?

Who is the scale-giver of the shop of the heavens, Making its pans out of the moon and the sun,

So that when they adorn the shop with the scales, They measure out life for the people of the world?

Who is it that, with the hand of a fiery heart, Tore open the dawn like dark-blue satin,

Acquired needle and thread from the sun, And sewed a yellow patch of fine linen upon it?

Who is it that, bent like an arch from the vault of heaven, Struck the four elements together beneath it?

When the elements were blended together, Form after form was newly created.

He made the gathering of the universe complete, Making Adam the seal of all forms.

For this bloodthirsty workshop, There is no choice but to have a director.

The contingent essence, by the proofs of intellect, Cannot bring itself into existence.

Since there is no trace of its own independent existence, How can another reach existence through it?

An essence that has not received existence from the Bestower of Being, How can it be a bestower of being?

A dry cloud that is empty of water— The quality of giving water cannot come from it.

Whatever has any sign of existence, If it is confined within the realm of contingency,

It would necessarily follow that no existing thing Would ever come into being in this arena of existence.

Who has seen a painting without the painter's brush? Who has heard a melody without the musician's plectrum?

Since the contingent alone cannot perform the task, Of necessity, there arose a need for the Necessary Being.

He exists by Himself, and the world exists through Him; Consider non-existent anything that is not connected to Him.

Movement reaches this chain from Him, And the face of this caravan is turned toward Him.

When the movement of an ant pricks your back, You quickly bring your finger toward that ant.

From that prick you know its existence, And with your fingertip you drive it from your back.

You would not believe that within your tattered clothes Your back was pricked by anything other than that mover.

The world and all these signs within it, The heavens and this immense movement within them—

If they continually play the screen and the melody, It is because behind the curtain there is a melody-maker.

Both movement and rest for all are from Him; For all, the seed is from Him and the snare is from Him.

It is through Him that the tree moves, not the wind; It is through Him that fortune is auspicious, not the celestial sphere.

He quenches the thirst of the thirsty, not the water; He grants joy to the intoxicated, not the wine.

The bud does not bloom in the garden without Him, The fruit does not set on the branch without Him.

He is the worker, and others are but the tools of the work; Once you have found the worker, leave the tools aside!

The work is His, He is the worker, and the world is His tool; He is the kernel, and all others are like the shell.

If you desire the kernel, close your eyes to the shell; The seeker of the kernel does not approve of the shell.

Erase the letters of others from the tablet of the heart, And do not scratch your mind with the fingernail of thought.

Make your mirror simple and clear of everything, And wash your chest clean of all else,

So that your chest may become the treasure of eternal life, And your mirror drowned in the light of pre-eternity.

The valley of proof and analogy will be crossed, And you will remain, along with a heart that recognizes the Friend.

Where the Friend is showing His glory, The argument of the intellect is only a cause of division.

When this fortune turns its face to you, Turn toward it and say nothing to anyone.

For the purse of logical reasoning, If empty of the gem of gnosis, is better empty.

Updated 2026-07-19

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