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Mosibat Nameh

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بخش ۳ - الحكایة و التمثیل / Section 3 - The Tale and the Parable

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بود مجنونی عجب نه سر نه بن
کز جنون گستاخ میگفتی سخن

زاهدی گفتش که ای گستاخ مرد
این مگوی و گرد گستاخی مگرد

بس خطاست این ره که میجوئی مجوی
هم روا نیست اینچه میگوئی مگوی

گفت ایزد چون مرا دیوانه خواست
هرچه آن دیوانه گوید آن رواست

گر سخنهای خطا باشد مرا
چون نیم عاقل روا باشد مرا

هیچ عاقل را نباشد یارگی
کو بپردازد دلی یکبارگی

با جنون از بهر او در ساختم
تادلم یکبارگی پرداختم

عاقلان را شرع تکلیف آمدست
بیدلان را عشق تشریف آمدست

تو برو ای زاهد و کم گوی تو
مرد نفسی زر طلب زن جوی تو

بیدلان را با زر و با زن چکار
شرع را و عقل را با من چکار

English translation

There was an extraordinary madman, without beginning or end, Who out of madness spoke audaciously. An ascetic told him, 'O audacious man, Do not say this, and do not hover around audacity. This path you seek is a great error, do not seek it; Nor is what you say permissible, do not say it.' He replied, 'Since God wished me to be a madman, Whatever that madman says is permissible. Even if my words contain errors, Since I am not sane, it is permissible for me. No sane person has the capacity To completely empty their heart all at once. I adapted to madness for His sake, So that I could completely empty my heart all at once. For the sane, the religious law has come as an obligation, For the heart-lost, love has come as a robe of honor. Go away, O ascetic, and speak less; You are a man of the carnal soul, seeking gold and searching for women. What do the heart-lost have to do with gold and women? What do religious law and intellect have to do with me?'

Updated 2026-07-03

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