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بخش ۶ - الحكایة و التمثیل / Section 6 - The Tale and the Parable

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ناگهی معشوق طوسی را مگر
بود بر بازار عطاران گذر

آن یکی عطار خوشتر از بهشت
غالیه از مشک و عنبر می سرشت

غالیه بستد ازو معشوق چست
بود در پیشش خری ادبار و سست

زیر دنبال خر آلوده بکرد
بر پلیدی غالیه سوده بکرد

سر این پرسید ازو مردی ز راه
گفت این خلقی که هست اینجایگاه

از خدادارند چندانی خبر
کز دم این غالیه این لاشه خر

از درخت ذات تو یک شاخ تر
تا نپیوندد باصل کار در

تو بریده مانی از اصل همه
فصل باشد قسمت از وصل همه

این زمان کن شاخ را پیوسته تو
زانکه چون مردی بمانی بسته تو

بسته نتواند بلاشک کار کرد
کار اینجا بایدت نهمار کرد

ور بدو پیوسته خواهی مرد تو
زندگی پیوسته خواهی برد تو

زندهٔ بی مرگ بسیاری بود
گر بمیری زنده این کاری بود

بر در او چون توانی یافت بار
چون ز بیکاری نه پردازی بکار

نیستت پروای ریش خود دمی
همچنین مردار خواهی شد همی

English translation

Suddenly, Mashuq of Tus, it seems, Happened to pass by the perfumers' market. A certain perfumer, more pleasant than paradise, Was compounding ghaliya from musk and ambergris. Mashuq briskly took the ghaliya from him; Before him stood a wretched and feeble donkey. He smeared it under the donkey's tail, He rubbed the ghaliya upon the filth. A man on the road asked him the secret behind this, He said: 'These people who are in this place, Have only as much awareness of God, As this donkey's carcass has of the scent of this ghaliya. From the tree of your essence, a fresh branch, Until it connects to the root of the matter, You shall remain severed from the root of all; Separation shall be your portion of the union of all. At this very time, make your branch connected, Because when you die, you will remain fettered. The fettered one undoubtedly cannot perform the work; Here, you must labor immensely. And if you wish to die joined to Him, You shall attain everlasting life. The living one who never dies is numerous; If you die while alive, this is the true work. How can you find an audience at His door, When out of idleness you do not attend to the work? You do not care for your own wound for a single moment, Thus you will continuously turn into a corpse.'

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