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

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نازنین میرفت و بس شوریده بود
گفتی از سرباز خوابی دیده بود

میگذشت او بر در مجلس گهی
این سخن گفت آن مذکر آنگهی

این گل آدم خدا از سرنوشت
چل صباح از دست قدرت میسرشت

بعد از آن گفتا دل مؤمن مدام
هست در انگشت حق کرده مقام

نازنین چون این سخن بشنود ازو
زاتش جانش برآمد دود ازو

گفت بیچاره چه سازد آدمی
یا دلست او یا گلست او از زمی

چون دل و چون گل بدست اوست بس
پس بدست ما چه باشد جز هوس

من دلی دارم ز عالم یا گلی
هر دو او راست اینت مشکل مشکلی

از دل و گل در جهان من برچه ام
اوست جمله در میان من برچه ام

هیچ هستم من ندانم یا نیم
چون همه اوست آخر اینجا من کیم

English translation

A charming madman was walking and was very distraught, You would say he had newly seen a dream. He was passing by the door of an assembly hall, A preacher was speaking these words at that moment: "God, by destiny, kneaded this clay of Adam For forty mornings with the hand of power." After that, he said, "The heart of the believer always Resides between the fingers of the Truth." When the charming madman heard these words from him, Smoke rose from him from the fire of his soul. He said, "What can the helpless human do? Either he is a heart, or he is clay from the earth. Since the heart and the clay are solely in His hands, Then what is in our hands except vain desire? Do I have a heart from the world, or clay? Both belong to Him; what a difficult problem this is! Apart from heart and clay in the world, upon what am I? He is everything in between; upon what am I? Am I anything at all? I do not know if I am or am not. Since everything is Him, after all, who am I here?"

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