1Cademy - بخش ۶۲ - حکایت آن بنده گنهکار که چون دولت عفوش دست داد بر آن نیستاد و پای در میدان طلب رضا نهاد / Section 62 - The Tale of the Sinful Servant Who, When the Fortune of Forgiveness Was Granted to Him, Did Not Remain Content with It but Stepped into the Field of Seeking Goodwill

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Haft Awrang

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بخش ۶۲ - حکایت آن بنده گنهکار که چون دولت عفوش دست داد بر آن نیستاد و پای در میدان طلب رضا نهاد / Section 62 - The Tale of the Sinful Servant Who, When the Fortune of Forgiveness Was Granted to Him, Did Not Remain Content with It but Stepped into the Field of Seeking Goodwill

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با ادب بنده ای از به طلبی
گام زن شد به ره بی ادبی

بس ادب ورز که از لغزش پای
مرکز بی ادبی سازد جای

خواجه را ساخت چو آتش غضبش
سوختن خواست به داغ ادبش

رفت و با اشک ندامت ریزی
کرد آغاز شفیع انگیزی

مقبلی زد قدم همراهی
با وی از بهر شفاعت خواهی

خواجه بخشید گناهش به شفیع
بخشش از اهل کرم نیست بدیع

بنده آن مژده بخشش چو شنود
چشمه خون ز دل و دیده گشود

چهره از خون جگر گلگون کرد
دامن از سیل مژه پرخون کرد

با وی آن مرد شفاعت پیشه
گفت کای غافل بی اندیشه

از پس عفو گنه گریه ز چیست
کس بدینسان که تو گریی نگریست

خواجه گفت از مژه زان خون پالاست
کز پی عفو طلبگار رضاست

عفوش از قول زبان حاصل شد
به رضاجویی دل مایل شد

عفو من خاص برای دل توست
غرض از عفو رضای دل توست

چون بود دل ز کسی ناخشنود
به زبان عفو کیش دارد سود

هر چه او کرد به صورت بحل است
لیک خشنودی دل کار دل است

English translation

A servant, normally well-mannered, out of some demand, stepped onto the path of impoliteness. How many polite people, through a slip of the foot, make the center of impoliteness their dwelling place! His insolence made the master's wrath like fire; he wanted to burn him with the brand of discipline. The servant went and, with tears of regret flowing, began to seek an intercessor. A favored person stepped forward to accompany him, for the sake of pleading for intercession. The master forgave his sin for the sake of the intercessor; forgiveness is not strange from generous people. When the servant heard that glad tidings of forgiveness, he opened a spring of blood from his heart and eyes. He made his face rosy with the blood of his liver, and filled his lap with the flood from his eyelashes. The interceding man said to him: 'O heedless and thoughtless one! Why weep after the forgiveness of sin? No one has ever wept in the way you weep.' The master said: 'He filters blood from his eyelashes because, after forgiveness, he seeks satisfaction. His forgiveness was obtained by the spoken word, but his heart has inclined toward seeking satisfaction. My forgiveness was specifically for the sake of your heart; the purpose of the forgiveness was the pleasure of your heart. When the heart is displeased with someone, how does verbal forgiveness benefit him? Whatever he did is outwardly absolved, but the satisfaction of the heart is a matter of the heart.'

Updated 2026-07-19

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