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بخش ۴۱ - حکایت آن خفته چشم بیدار دل که روح الله به سر وقت وی رسید و عذر خواب کردن وی را از وی پسندید / Section 41 - The Tale of the Closed-Eyed Sleeper with an Awakened Heart, Whose Spirit of God (Jesus) Visited Him and Accepted His Excuse for Sleeping

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عیسی آن روح که این صورت جسم
بود بر گنج الهیش طلسم

روزی از دل در راحت می زد
گام در راه سیاحت می زد

دید در کنج یکی دیر خراب
خفته ای رخت خرد داده به خواب

دیده از نادره دیدن بسته
گوش از نکته شنیدن بسته

ساخته در قفس تنگ دهان
طوطی ناطقه را گنگ زبان

زد سر پای که ای رفته ز دست
میل بالا کن ازین پایه پست

دیده و گوش و زبان را بگشای
تازه کن بر دل خود یاد خدای

صفحه لوح جهان دفتر اوست
نسخه صنع بدایعگر اوست

نقش این لوح بخوان حرف به حرف
بشنو از هر یکی اسرار شگرف

بر کرم هاش ثناخوانی کن
بر رقمهاش درافشانی کن

خفته این گفته ز عیسی چو شنید
در جوابش ز سخن چاره ندید

سر برآورد که بگذار مرا
نیست با خلق جهان کار مرا

پا به یک سوی کشیدم ز میان
فارغ از عالمم و عالمیان

مژده از من به جهان جویان ده
که جهان هم به جهان جویان به

گفت عیسیش چو بشنید جواب
خواب کن خواب که خوش بادت خواب

بند اندوه نیی شاد بخسب
بنده کس نیی آزاد بخسب

همه مشغولی عالم کولیست
ترک کولی به خدا مشغولیست

English translation

Jesus, that Spirit for whom this bodily form was a talisman over his divine treasure, One day knocked on the door of comfort from his heart, and took a step on the path of journeying. He saw in the corner of a ruined monastery a sleeping person who had surrendered his intellect to sleep. His eyes were closed to seeing wonders, his ears closed to hearing subtle wisdom. Within the narrow cage of his mouth, he had made the speaking parrot mute of tongue. Jesus nudged him with his foot, saying: 'O you who are lost, aspire to the heights from this low station. Open your eyes, ears, and tongue, and renew the remembrance of God in your heart. The page of the tablet of the world is His ledger, the manuscript of the creation of the Creator of wonders. Read the inscriptions of this tablet letter by letter, and hear the wondrous secrets from each one. Sing praises of His kindnesses, and scatter pearls of appreciation over His signs.' When the sleeper heard these words from Jesus, he had no choice but to speak in response. He raised his head and said: 'Leave me be, I have no business with the people of the world. I have withdrawn my feet from their midst; I am free from the world and worldly people. Give this glad tiding from me to the seekers of the world: That the world is better left to the seekers of the world.' When Jesus heard his response, he said to him: 'Sleep on, sleep on, and may your sleep be sweet! You are not in the chains of sorrow; sleep happily. You are no one's slave; sleep free. All the preoccupations of the world are but vanity, and abandoning vanity is being occupied with God.'

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