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بخش ۳ / Section 3

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صوفی دگری را صفت کرده و صفتی از روی شناسایی و معرفت آورده فرموده که فلان کس سفره آرست نه سفره دار و خود را شریک سفره می دارد نه ملیک سفره می شمارد، با سایر خورندگان یکسان است بلکه در نظر خود طفیلی ایشان است.
چون به مهمانسرای خویش نهد

خواجه خوان از برای درویشان
طفل راه است اگر نمی داند

خویشتن را طفیلی ایشان

English translation

A certain Sufi described another, offering a description born of true recognition and gnosis, saying: So-and-so is a setter of the table, not a keeper of the table; he holds himself to be a sharer of the table, not reckoning himself its owner. He is equal with all the other eaters; indeed, in his own eyes he is but their uninvited guest.

When the master lays out a table in his own guesthouse for the sake of the dervishes, He is a novice of the path if he does not know himself to be their tag-along guest.

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