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Mosibat Nameh

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بخش ۲ - الحكایة و التمثیل / Section 2 - The Tale and the Parable

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گفت چون صحرا همه پربرف گشت
رفت ذوالنون در چنان روزی بدشت

دید گبری را ز ایمان بی خبر
دامنی ارزن درافکنده بسر

برف میرفت و بصحرا میدوید
دانه میپاشید و هرجا میدوید

گفت ذوالنونش که ای دهقان راه
از چه میپاشی تو این ارزن پگاه

گفت در برفست عالم ناپدید
چینه مرغان شد این دم ناپدید

مرغکان را چینه پاشم این قدر
تا خدا رحمت کند بر من مگر

گفت ذوالنونش که چون بیگانه
کی پذیرد تو مگر دیوانهٔ

گفت اگر نپذیرد این بیند خدا
گفت بیند گفت بس باشد مرا

رفت ذوالنون سوی حج سالی دگر
بر رخ آن گبر افتادش نظر

دید او را عاشق آسا در طواف
گفت ای ذوالنون چرا گفتی گزاف

گفتی آن نپذیرد و بیند ولیک
دید و بپسندید و بپذیرفت نیک

هم مرا در آشنائی راه داد
هم مرا جان ودلی آگاه داد

هم مرا در خانهٔ خود پیش خواند
هم مرا حیران راه خویش خواند

هست در بیت اللهم همخانگی
باز رستم زان همه بیگانگی

زان سخن حالی بشد ذوالنون ز جای
گفت ارزان میفروشی ای خدای

گبری چل ساله چون از گردنش
می بیندازی بمشتی ارزنش

دوستی خود بدشمن میدهی
این چنین ارزان به ارزن میدهی

هاتفی در سر او آواز داد
کانکه او را خواند حق یا باز داد

گر بخواندش نه بعلت خواندش
ور براندش نه بعلت راندش

کار خلقست آنکه ملت ملتست
هرچه زان درگه رود بی علتست

English translation

He said: when the desert became completely covered in snow, Dhu'l-Nun went out to the desert on such a day. He saw a Zoroastrian unaware of the true faith, who was carrying a skirt full of millet on his head. It was snowing and he was running in the plain, scattering seeds and running everywhere. Dhu'l-Nun said to him: 'O peasant of the path, why are you scattering this millet at dawn?' He said: 'The world has vanished in the snow, the birds' seeds have vanished at this moment. I scatter this much seed for the little birds so that perhaps God may have mercy on me.' Dhu'l-Nun said to him: 'Since you are an outsider, how could He accept it? Are you mad?' He said: 'Even if He does not accept it, God sees it.' He said: 'He sees.' He said: 'That is enough for me.' Dhu'l-Nun went on the Hajj pilgrimage another year. His eyes fell upon the face of that Zoroastrian. He saw him circumambulating like a lover. He said: 'O Dhu'l-Nun, why did you speak idle words? You said He would not accept it and only see it, but He saw, approved, and accepted it well. He gave me a way into familiarity (faith), He gave me an awakened soul and heart. He called me forth into His own house, He called me, bewildered in His path. I now share a home in the House of God; I am finally freed from all that estrangement.' From those words, Dhu'l-Nun was instantly overcome, saying: 'You sell cheaply, O God! A forty-year-old Zoroastrian, how from his neck You lift the burden for a handful of millet! You give Your friendship to an enemy; You give it so cheaply for millet.' A hidden voice called out in his inner self: 'Whoever the Truth calls or turns back, if He calls him, He does not call him for a cause; and if He drives him away, He does not drive him away for a cause. It is the affair of creation that there are sects and religions; whatever proceeds from that Court is without a cause.'

Updated 2026-07-03

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