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بخش ۵ - الحكایة و التمثیل / Section 5 - The Tale and the Parable

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آن یکی دیوانه را از اهل راز
گشت وقت نزع جان کندن دراز

از سر بی قوتی و اضطرار
همچو ابری خون فشان بگریست زار

گفت چون جان ای خدا آوردهٔ
چون همی بردی چرا آوردهٔ

گر نبودی جان من بر سودمی
زین همه جان کندن ایمن بودمی

نه مرا از زیستن مردن بدی
نه ترا آوردن و بردن بدی

کاشکی رنج شد آمد نیستی
گر شد آمد نیستی بد نیستی

چون ترا مرگست و آتش پیش در
ظلم تا چندی کنی زین بیشتر

مرگ گوئی نیست جانت را تمام
کاتشیش از ظلم در باید مدام

English translation

A certain madman, among the people of the secret, Found the agony of his death throes prolonged. Out of helplessness and extreme distress, He wept bitterly, shedding tears of blood like a cloud. He said, 'O God, since You gave me this soul, Why did You bring it, if You were only to take it away? If my soul had not existed, I would have been better off, I would have been safe from all this agonizing death. I would neither have had to die after living, Nor would You have had to bring and take away. I wish the pain of coming and going did not exist; If coming and going did not exist, it wouldn't be bad. Since You have placed death and fire before the door, How much longer will You commit such oppression? One might say that death is not enough for the soul, That it must also constantly endure the fire of oppression.'

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