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بخش ۶۵ - قصه ملاقات ذوالنون مصری قدس الله تعالی سره در حرم مکه با آن کنیزک و مقالات ایشان با یکدیگر / Section 65 - The Story of Dhul-Nun al-Misri's Meeting with a Maidservant in the Sanctuary of Mecca and Their Discourse with One Another

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لقمه ماهی فنا ذوالنون
سالی آمد به عزم حج بیرون

گفت دیدم که در میان طواف
رفت نوری به آسمان ز مطاف

پشت خود را به خانه بنهادم
واندر آن داد فکر می دادم

ناله ای ناگهم رسیده به گوش
که برآمد ز من فغان و خروش

در پی ناله برگرفتم راه
دیدم آنجا کنیزکی چون ماه

اندر استار کعبه آویزان
اشک خونین ز هر مژه ریزان

برگرفته نوا که یا مولای
لیس الا هواک جوف حشای

کیست مقصود من تو دانی وبس
نیست محبوب من به غیر تو کس

آه ازین اشک سرخ و چهره زرد
که مرا در غم تو رسواکرد

سینه ام شد ز درد عشق تو تنگ
چه عجب گر به سینه کوبم سنگ

با دلی گرم و سینه ای بریان
گشتم از درد یاریش گریان

در مناجات باز لب بگشود
کای خداوند کارساز ودود

به حق آنکه دوستدار منی
در همه کار و بار یار منی

که به محض کرم بیامرزم
از گنه گرچه کوه البرزم

شیخ چون این سخن شنید ازو
گفت ازینسان مگوی بلکه بگو

به حق آنکه دوستدار توام
در همه کار و بار یار توام

چه وقوفت بود ز یاری او
یا ز آیین دوستداری او

گفت شیخا جماعتی هستند
که ز جام هوای او مستند

اول او دوست داشت ایشان را
پس به دل مهر کاشت ایشان را

نکنی فهم این سخن الا
که بخوانی «فسوف یأتی الل

ه بقوم یحبهم و یحب
ونه » ای حبیب گشته محب

گر نه او دوست داردت ز نخست
کی بود دوستداری از تو درست

عشق او تخم عشق ما و شماست
خواستگاری نخست از وی خاست

عشق او شخص و عشق ما سایه
سایه از شخص می برد مایه

تا نه شخص است ایستاده به پای
بهر اثبات سایه ژاژ مخای

ما نبودیم و خواست از وی بود
ما ازآن خواست یافتیم وجود

شیخ گفتا که ای به فهم لطیف
از چه روی چنین ضعیف و نحیف

گفت مست محبت مولا
هست دایم مریض در دنیا

چون دوای محب او درد است
به امید شفا نه در خورد است

تا نیابد ز دوست بوی وفا
زان مرض نیستش امید شفا

گفت با شیخ بعد ازان کای شیخ
که نه روشن بود جهان بی شیخ

به قفا وانگر چون وا نگرید
گرچه مالید چشم هیچ ندید

باز چون رو به جانب او تافت
اثری زو بجز خیال نیافت

ماند حیران که مرغ سان چون رفت
که به یکدم ز دام بیرون رفت

English translation

Dhul-Nun, the morsel of the fish of annihilation, one year came out with the intention of performing Hajj. He said: I saw that in the midst of circumambulation, a light ascended to heaven from the place of circumambulation. I rested my back against the House, and there I was giving myself to reflection. Suddenly a wailing reached my ears, that caused me to cry out and lament. In pursuit of the wailing, I took the path, and there I saw a maidservant as beautiful as the moon, clinging to the drapes of the Kaaba, shedding bloody tears from every eyelash, singing a melody: 'O my Lord! There is nothing within my chest but love for You. Who is my objective? You know, and that is enough. There is no beloved for me besides You. Alas for these red tears and pale face, which have disgraced me in my grief for You. My breast became tight from the pain of Your love; what wonder if I strike my breast with a stone?' With a warm heart and a roasting breast, I began to weep from the pain of helping her. In supplication she opened her lips again, saying: 'O Lord, the Maker of Affairs, the Loving One! By the right of that You are my lover, and in all my affairs You are my companion, forgive me out of sheer generosity, even though my sins are as massive as Mount Alborz.' When the Sheikh heard these words from her, he said: 'Do not speak like this, but rather say: "By the right of that I am Your lover, and in all my affairs I am Your companion." What knowledge do you have of His companionhood, or of the custom of His lovingness?' She said: 'O Sheikh! There are a group of people who are intoxicated by the cup of His love. First, He loved them, and then He planted affection in their hearts. You will not understand these words unless you read: "God will bring a people whom He loves and who love Him" [Quran 5:54], O you who have become a lover after being a beloved! If He did not love you first, how could your love for Him be correct? His love is the seed of our love, the courtship arose first from Him. His love is the person, and our love is the shadow; the shadow derives its substance from the person. As long as the person is not standing, do not talk nonsense to prove the shadow. We did not exist, and the desire came from Him; we found existence from that desire.' The Sheikh said: 'O you of subtle understanding! For what reason are you so weak and thin?' She said: 'The one intoxicated with the love of the Master is always sick in this world. Since the medicine for His lover is pain, it is not fitting to hope for healing. Until one receives the scent of loyalty from the Friend, there is no hope of healing from that illness.' She said to the Sheikh after that: 'O Sheikh, may the world not be bright without a Sheikh!' Then she turned back, and when the Sheikh looked, though he rubbed his eyes, he saw nothing. Again when he turned his face toward her, he found no trace of her but a mental image. He remained astonished at how she went like a bird, escaping the trap in a single moment.

Updated 2026-07-07

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