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Mosibat Nameh

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بخش ۱۰ - الحكایة و التمثیل / Section 10 - The Tale and the Parable

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بود شهری بس قوی اما خراب
پای تا سر شوره خورده زآفتاب

صد هزاران منظر و دیوار و در
اوفتاده سرنگون بر یکدگر

دید مجنونی مگر آن شهر را
درعمل آورده چندان قهر را

در تحیر ایستاد آنجایگاه
شهر را میکرد هر سوئی نگاه

نیمروز آنجایگه منزل گرفت
گوئی آنجا پای او در گل گرفت

سایلی گفتش که ای مجنون راه
از چه حیران ماندهٔ این جایگاه

سخت سرگردان و غمگین ماندهٔ
می چه اندیشی که چنین ماندهٔ

گفت ماندم در تعجب بیقرار
کآنزمان کاین شهر بودست استوار

وآنگهی پر خلق بودست این همه
مصر جامع مینمودست این همه

آن زمان کاین بود شهر مردمان
من کجا بودم ندانم آن زمان

وین زمان کاینجا شدم من آشکار
تا کجا رفتند چندان خلق زار

من کجا بودستم آخر آن زمان
یا کجااند این زمان آن مردمان

من نبودم آن زمان و ایشان بدند
من چو پیدا آمدم پنهان شدند

می ندانم این سخن را روی و راه
این تعجب میکنم این جایگاه

کس چه میداند که این پرگار چیست
یا ازین پرگار بیرون کار چیست

چون بسی رفتم ندیدم پیش باز
گشتم اکنون بیدل و بیخویش باز

هیچ دل را جز تحیر راه نیست
وز شد آمد جان کس آگاه نیست

English translation

There was a city, very strong but ruined, Weathered from head to toe by the sun. Hundreds of thousands of buildings, walls, and doors, Fallen upside down upon one another. A madman happened to see that city, Having been subjected to such wrath. He stood in bewilderment in that place, Looking at the city in every direction. At midday he settled there, As if his foot were stuck in the mud there. A questioner asked him, 'O madman of the path, Why are you left bewildered in this place? You are left deeply perplexed and sorrowful, What are you thinking that you remain so?' He said, 'I am left in restless wonder, That at the time when this city was sturdy, And when it was full of people, all of this, And all of this appeared like a vast Egypt; At that time when this was a city of people, I do not know where I was at that time. And at this time when I have appeared here, Where did so many miserable people go? Where was I, after all, at that time? Or where are those people at this time? I was not there at that time and they were, When I appeared, they became hidden. I do not know the face and path of this matter, I am marveling at this in this place. Who knows what this compass is? Or what the work is outside of this compass? Since I traveled much but saw no way forward, I have now returned heartless and selfless. There is no path for any heart but bewilderment, And no one is aware of the coming and going of the soul.'

Updated 2026-07-03

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