1Cademy - بخش ۴۴ - مقاله دوازدهم در شرح حال علمای از عمل دور و سف های به جهل و جدل مغرور / Section 44 - The Twelfth Discourse on the Description of the State of Scholars Far from Action and Fools Proud of Ignorance and Disputation

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بخش ۴۴ - مقاله دوازدهم در شرح حال علمای از عمل دور و سف های به جهل و جدل مغرور / Section 44 - The Twelfth Discourse on the Description of the State of Scholars Far from Action and Fools Proud of Ignorance and Disputation

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ای علم علم برافراخته
چون علم از علم سرافراخته

خویشتن از علم علم ساختی
چون عمل آمد علم انداختی

لاف درستیست علم سازیت
حجت سستی علم اندازیت

دعوی دانش کنی از جاهلی
حاصل تحصیل تو بی حاصلی

خواجه زند بانگ که صنعتورم
مس شود از جودت صنعت زرم

لیکن اگر دست به جیبش نهی
چون کف مفلس بود از زر تهی

کیسه چو خالی بود از زر و سیم
دعوی اکسیر چه سود از حکیم

جمع کتب از سره و ناسره
کرده چو خشت است به گردت خره

آن خره کن رخنه که از چار حد
بست میان تو و مقصود سد

هر ورقی زان کتب آمد حجاب
زان حجب توی به تو رخ بتاب

تا ببری از همه فردا سبق
زان کتب امروز بگردان ورق

علم که خوانده به ره ناصواب
باشد ازان علم سیه رو کتاب

نور دل از سینه سینا مجوی
روشنی از چشم نه بینا مجوی

جانب کفر است اشارات او
باعث خوف است بشارات او

فکر شفایش همه بیماری است
میل نجاتش ز گرفتاری است

قاعده طب که به قانون نهاد
پای نه از قاعده بیرون نهاد

لیک نهان ساخت بر اهل طلب
روی مسبب به حجاب سبب

خاصیت علم سبب سوزی است
شیوه جاهل سبب آموزی است

طب ز نبی جوی که طب النبی
سازدت از جمله علل اجنبی

از مرض جهل شفا بخشدت
وز کدر نفس صفا بخشدت

تابد از اسباب و علل روی تو
واکند از هر چه نه حق خوی تو

عمر تو شد صرف اصول و فروع
هیچ نیفتاد به اصلت رجوع

هیچ وقوفت ز مقاصد چو نیست
از طلب آن به مواقف مایست

بر تو چو نگشاد ز مفتاح راه
دولت فتح از در فتاح خواه

گر ز موانع دل تو صاف نیست
کشف موانع حد کشاف نیست

نور هدایت ز هدایه مجوی
راه نهایت به نهایه مپوی

ترک نفاق و کم تلبیس گیر
علم ز سرچشمه تقدیس گیر

هر چه نه قال الله و قال الرسول
هست بر اهل فضلیت فضول

فضل خدا بین و فضولی مکن
جهل ز حد رفت جهولی مکن

علم چو دادت ز عمل سر مپیچ
دانش بی کار نیرزد به هیچ

چون به بساط عملت سود پای
بی عملان را به عمل ره نمای

بایدت اول ادب اندوختن
پس دگران را ادب آموختن

چون دگران را شوی آموزگار
کم طلب آن را عوض از روزگار

علم بود و جوهر و باقی سفال
آن چو حقیقت دگران چو خیال

بیع جواهر به سفالی که چه
بذل حقایق به خیالی که چه

English translation

O you who have raised the banner of knowledge, Who like a banner are exalted by knowledge! You made yourself a standard of knowledge, But when action came, you cast the banner down. Your claim of possessing knowledge is a boast of soundness, While your discarding of knowledge is proof of weakness. You claim wisdom out of ignorance, The harvest of your study is nothingness. The master shouts: 'I am an alchemist, Copper becomes gold by the excellence of my craft!' But if you put your hand into his pocket, Like the palm of a bankrupt, it is empty of gold. When the purse is empty of gold and silver, What is the use of a philosopher's claim to the elixir? The collection of books, of both good and bad quality, Has become like a pile of bricks around you. Breach that wall which from all four sides Has erected a barrier between you and your ultimate goal. Every leaf of those books has become a veil; Turn your face away from those multi-layered veils. So that tomorrow you may surpass everyone, Turn the page of those books today. Knowledge studied on an incorrect path— The book itself becomes black-faced from such knowledge. Do not seek the light of the heart from the Sinai of the chest, Do not seek brightness from an unseeing eye. Its indications point toward disbelief, Its glad tidings are a source of fear. The thought of its Healing (Shifa) is entirely sickness, Its desire for Deliverance (Najat) is from captivity. The principles of medicine which he laid down in the Canon (Qanun), He did not set foot outside the rule. However, he hid from the seekers The face of the Cause behind the veil of cause. The true quality of divine knowledge is cause-burning, While the way of the ignorant is cause-learning. Seek medicine from the Prophet, for the Medicine of the Prophet (Tibb al-Nabi) Will make you a stranger to all ailments. It will grant you healing from the disease of ignorance, And purify you from the turbidity of the self. It turns your face away from secondary causes and conditions, And detaches your character from everything other than the Truth. Your life has been spent on principles (Usul) and branches (Furu'), But you never returned to your true Origin (Asl). Since you have no standing or awareness of the Objectives (Maqasid), Do not stop in seeking them at the Stations (Mawaqif). Since the path did not open to you from the Key (Miftah), Seek the fortune of victory from the door of the Opener (Al-Fattah). If your heart is not pure of obstacles, Unveiling obstacles is not within the scope of the Unveiler (Kashshaf). Do not seek the light of guidance from the Guidance (Hidayah), Do not tread the path to the ultimate end through the Limit (Nihayah). Abandon hypocrisy and reduce deceit, Receive knowledge from the fountainhead of holiness. Whatever is not 'Allah said' and 'the Messenger said', Is superfluous to the people of excellence. Behold the grace of God and do not be superfluous; Ignorance has gone beyond limits, do not act foolishly. When He gives you knowledge, do not turn your head from action, For unemployed knowledge is worth nothing at all. When your foot is rubbed on the carpet of action, Guide the actionless ones toward action. You must first acquire manners yourself, And then teach manners to others. When you become a teacher to others, Seek little compensation for it from the world. Knowledge is the jewel, and the rest is clay; That is like reality, and others like fantasy. Why sell jewels for clay? Why give away realities for a fantasy?

Updated 2026-07-19

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