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Asrar Nameh

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بخش ۴ - الحکایه و التمثیل / Section 4 - The Tale and the Parable

Original content

شنود آن روستایی این سخن راست
که عنبر فضلهٔ گاو ان دریا ست

گوی پر آب اندر ده فرو کرد
بیامد از خری گاوی در او کرد

همه سرگین گاو از آب برداشت
بدان عنبر فروش آمد که زر داشت

بدو گفت «این ز من بستان بده زر
کزین بهتر نبینی هیچ عنبر »

چو مرد آن دید گفتا سر به ره آر
که این ریش ترا شاید نگه دار

چو هر کس پادشاه ریش خویش است
چو تو شه را چنین عنبر به ریش است

چو ریشت دید گاو این عنبرت داد
به ریش از کون گاو این عنبرت باد

تو گر با حق به شب در راز گویی
دگر روز آن به فخری باز گویی

مکن گر بندهٔ طاعت بهایی
که آن شرکی بود اندر خدایی

چو تو بفروختی طاعت به صد بار
یقین می دان که حق نبود خریدار

ریا و عجب کوه آتشین است
نمی دانی که کوه دوزخ این است

اگر تو طاعت ابلیس کردی
چو عجب آری در آن ابلیس گردی

جوی عجب تو ، گر طاعت جهانی ست
مثال آتشی در پنبه دانی ست

English translation

That villager heard this true saying, That ambergris is the excrement of the sea cow. He took a water-filled ball into the village, Out of foolishness, he put a cow in it. He gathered all the cow's dung from the water, He went to an ambergris seller who possessed gold. He said to him, 'Take this from me and give me gold, For you will never see any ambergris better than this.' When the man saw it, he said, 'Come to your senses! Keep this, as it is worthy of your beard. Since everyone is the king of his own beard, Such ambergris belongs on the beard of a king like you. Since the cow saw your beard, it gave you this ambergris; May this ambergris from the cow's rear be upon your beard!' If you speak secrets with God at night, And the next day you recount it with pride, Do not seek a price, if you are a servant of obedience, For that is polytheism in the realm of the Divine. Since you have sold your obedience a hundred times, Know for sure that the Truth (God) will not be the buyer. Hypocrisy and conceit are a mountain of fire; Do you not know that this is the mountain of Hell? Even if you worshipped as much as Iblis, When you bring conceit into it, you become an Iblis. A single grain of your conceit, even with the obedience of a whole world, Is like fire in a cotton field, you should know.

Updated 2026-07-03

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