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بخش ۳۲ / Section 32

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خواجه یوسف همدانی - قدس سره - وقتی در نظامیه بغداد وعظ می گفت فقیهی معروف به ابن السقا برخاست و مسئله پرسید گفت: بنشین که در کلام تو رایحهٔ کفر می بینم شاید که مرگ تو نه بر دین اسلام بود. بعد از آن به مدتی آن فقیه نصرانی شد و بر نصرانیت بمرد.
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در صف زنده دلان نام به ارشاد رود
باد دعوی به سر او مبر ای خواجه مباد

که از این بی ادبی دین تو بر باد رود

English translation

Khwaja Yusuf Hamadani — may his secret be sanctified — was once preaching at the Nizamiyya of Baghdad when a jurist known as Ibn al-Saqqa rose and asked a question. He said: 'Sit down, for in your speech I perceive the scent of unbelief; perhaps your death will not be upon the religion of Islam.' Some time afterward that jurist became a Christian and died in Christianity.

Whomever you see, who after the nurturing of poverty, Has his name go forth to spiritual guidance among the ranks of the living-hearted— Do not carry the wind of pretension into his head, O khwaja, beware, Lest through this ill-breeding your own faith be scattered to the wind.

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