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Mosibat Nameh

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بخش ۵ - الحكایة و التمثیل / Section 5 - The Tale and the Parable

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آن یکی دیوانه در بغداد شد
یک دکان پر شیشه دید او شاد شد

برگرفت آنگاه سنگی ده بدست
وآن همه شیشه بیک ساعت شکست

صدهزاران شیشه میشد سرنگون
پس طراق و طمطراق آمد برون

مرد سودائی که آن سوداش کرد
از پسش خندید و بس صفراش کرد

آن یکی گفتش که ای شوریده مرد
این چرا کردی و هرگز این که کرد

سود اوبر باد دادی این زمان
مرد را درویش کردی زین زیان

گفت من دیوانهٔ بس سرکشم
وین طراق و طمطراق آید خوشم

چون خوشم این آمد اینم هست کار
با زیانم نیست یا با سود کار

در حقیقت زین همه طاق ورواق
نیست کس آگاه جز از طمطراق

هیچکس از سر کار آگاه نیست
زانکه آنجا هیچکس را راه نیست

نیست کس را از حقیقت آگهی
جمله میمیرند بادستی تهی

English translation

That certain madman went into Baghdad, He saw a shop full of glassware and became glad. He then took up a heavy stone in his hand, And in a single moment, shattered all that glass. Hundreds of thousands of glasses were overturned, Then a great crashing and clanging sound came forth. The melancholic man who committed that crazy deed, Laughed afterwards and acted out his madness. Someone said to him, 'O disturbed man! Why did you do this, and who has ever done such a thing? You have thrown his profit to the wind in this moment, You have made the man destitute from this loss.' He said, 'I am a very rebellious madman, And this crashing and clanging pleases me. Since this pleases me, this is my business, I have no business with either loss or profit. In truth, of all these worldly arches and porticos, No one is aware of anything but the crashing sound. No one is aware of the inner secret of the matter, Because no one has a pathway there. No one has any awareness of the ultimate truth, All die with an empty hand.'

Updated 2026-07-03

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