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بخش ۳۳ / Section 33

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خواجه عبدالخالق غجدوانی را - قدس سره - روزی درویشی پیش او گفت: اگر خدای تعالی مرا مخیر گرداند میان بهشت و دوزخ من دوزخ را انتخاب کنم زیراکه بهشت مراد نفس است و دوزخ مراد خدای تعالی خواجه او را رد کردند و فرمودند که بنده را به اختیار چه کار؟ هر جا گوید رو رویم و هرجا گوید باش باشیم.
کار بی اختیار خواجه مکن

ای که داری به بندگی اقرار
هرکجا اختیار خواجه بود

بندگان را به اختیار چه کار

English translation

One day, in the presence of Khwaja Abd al-Khaliq Ghijduvani - may his secret be sanctified - a dervish said: 'If God Most High were to grant me the choice between Paradise and Hell, I would choose Hell, because Paradise is the desire of the ego (nafs) and Hell is the will of God Most High.' The Khwaja rejected him and said: 'What has a servant to do with choice? Wherever He says go, we go; and wherever He says stay, we stay.'

Do no deed apart from the Master's will, O you who profess your servitude; Wherever the Master's own will holds sway, what business have servants with a will of their own?

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