1Cademy - بخش ۵۴ - داستان وصیت کردن اسکندر که دستش را بعد از وفات از تابوت بیرون گذارند تا تهیدستی وی بر همه کس ظاهر شود / Section 54 - The Tale of Alexanders Testament that His Hand Be Placed Outside the Coffin after His Death, so that His Empty-handedness Might Be Manifest to Everyone

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Haft Awrang

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بخش ۵۴ - داستان وصیت کردن اسکندر که دستش را بعد از وفات از تابوت بیرون گذارند تا تهیدستی وی بر همه کس ظاهر شود / Section 54 - The Tale of Alexander's Testament that His Hand Be Placed Outside the Coffin after His Death, so that His Empty-handedness Might Be Manifest to Everyone

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خوش آن کس که کارش نکویی بود
به نیک و بدش نیکخویی بود

چه در وقت مردن چه در زندگی
رود روزگارش به فرخندگی

سکندر چو نامه به مادر نوشت
به جز نامه موعظت در نوشت

به یاران زبان نصیحت گشاد
به هر سینه گنجی ودیعت نهاد

چو بر حاضران گنج گوهر فشاند
ز ناحاضران نیز غافل نماند

وصیت چنین کرد با حاضران
که ای از جهالت تهی خاطران

چو بر داغ هجران من دل نهید
تن ناتوانم به محمل نهید

گذارید دستم برون از کفن
کنید آشکاراش بر مرد و زن

ز حالم دم نامرادی زنید
به هر مرز و بوم این منادی زنید

که این دست دستیست کز عز و جاه
ربود از سر تاجداران کلاه

کلید کرم بود در مشت او
نگین خلافت در انگشت او

ز شیر فلک قوت پنجه یافت
قوی بازوان را بسی پنجه تافت

ز حشمت زبر دست هر دست بود
همه دست ها پیش او پست بود

ز نقد گدایی و شاهنشهی
ز عالم کند رحلت اینک تهی

چو بحرش به کف نیست جز باد هیچ
چه امکان ز وی این سفر را بسیچ

تو هم گیر ازین دست ای خواجه پند
بدین دست بگشای از پای بند

به کار جهان بند بودن که چه
بدین شغل خرسند بودن که چه

چو ز اول تو را مادر دهر زاد
به جز دست خالیت چیزی نداد

ازین ورطه چون پای بیرون نهی
بود زاد راه تو دست تهی

مکن در میان دست خود را گرو
به چیزی که گویند بگذار و رو

بده هر چه داری که این دادن است
که از خویشتن بند بگشادن است

بود آن تو هر چه دادی ز دست
که در وجه فردات خواهد نشست

تو را گر به مخزن زر و گوهر است
نه آن تو آن کسی دیگر است

English translation

Happy is the one whose deeds are good, whose good nature shows in his good and his bad. Whether at the time of dying or in living, his days pass in blessedness. When Alexander wrote a letter to his mother, besides the letter he set down admonition. He opened the tongue of counsel to his companions, placing a treasure as a trust in every breast. When he scattered the treasure of jewels upon those present, he did not neglect those who were absent either. He made this testament to those present: O you whose minds are empty of ignorance, When you set your hearts upon the grief of my parting, lay my feeble body upon the litter. Leave my hand outside the shroud, make it visible to man and woman. Speak of my state as one of failure, proclaim this in every border and land: That this hand is a hand which, out of glory and rank, snatched the crown from the heads of the crowned. The key of generosity was in its fist, the signet of the caliphate upon its finger. From the lion of the sphere it gained the strength of its grip, and wrenched the grasp of many strong-armed ones. Through majesty it was the upper hand over every hand; all hands were lowly before it. Of the coin of beggary and of kingship, behold, it now departs from the world empty. Since, like the sea, it holds nothing in its palm but wind, how could it prepare provision for this journey? You too, O master, take counsel from this hand; with this hand loosen yourself from the fetter. What use is being bound to the affairs of the world? What use is being content with this occupation? Since at the first the mother of time bore you, she gave you nothing but your empty hand. When you set foot out of this abyss, your provision for the road will be an empty hand. Do not pawn your hand in the meantime for something of which they will say: leave it and go. Give away all that you have, for this is true giving, which is the loosening of the bond from yourself. Whatever you gave from your hand was truly yours, for it will settle to your account tomorrow. If you have gold and jewels in your treasury, they are not yours; they belong to someone else.

Updated 2026-07-20

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