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Mosibat Nameh

Poem

بخش ۹ - الحكایة ‌و التمثیل / Section 9 - The Tale and the Parable

Original content

شد مگر دیوانه شبلی چند گاه
برد با دیوانه جایش پادشاه

کرد شه در کار او لختی غلو
کان فلان دارو کنیدش در گلو

پس زفان بگشاد شبلی بی قرار
گفت خود را بیهده رنجه مدار

کاین نه زان دیوانگیست ای نیک مرد
کان بدارو به شود گردم مگرد

هر کجا دردی بود درمان پذیر
آن نباشد درد کان باشد زحیر

جان اگر نبود مرا جانان بسست
داروی من درد بیدرمان بسست

چون ترا با حق نیفتد هیچ کار
تو چه دانی قیمت این روزگار

چون بخون صد ره بگرداند ترا
آنگهی یک دم برنجاند ترا

صد رهت مرده کند پس زندهٔ
تاترا نانی دهد یا ژندهٔ

English translation

Shibli went mad, as it happened, for a time, The king brought him to the place of the mad. The king took great extreme in his case, Saying, 'Pour such and such medicine down his throat.' Then the restless Shibli opened his tongue, Saying, 'Do not trouble yourself in vain. For this is not that kind of madness, O good man, That can be cured with medicine; do not circle around me. Any pain that is curable, Is not a real pain, it is merely an affliction. If I have no soul, the Beloved is enough for me; My medicine is my incurable pain, and that is enough. Since you have no dealings with the Truth (God), How would you know the value of this state? When He rolls you in blood a hundred times, Then He will afflict you for a single breath. A hundred times He makes you dead, then alive, Just to give you a loaf of bread or a ragged cloak.'

Updated 2026-07-03

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