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مثنوی معنوی: دفتر سوم / Masnavi: Book Three

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دفتر سوم - بخش ۱۴ - قصهٔ اهل ضروان و حیلت کردن ایشان تا بی زحمت درویشان باغها را قطاف کنند / Book Three - Section 14 - The Story of the People of Darwan and Their Scheming to Harvest the Orchards Without the Trouble of the Dervishes

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قصهٔ اصحاب ضروان خوانده ای
پس چرا در حیله جویی مانده ای

حیله می کردند کزدم نیش چند
که برند از روزی درویش چند

شب همه شب می سگالیدند مکر
روی در رو کرده چندین عمرو و بکر

خفیه می گفتند سرها آن بدان
تا نباید که خدا در یابد آن

با گل انداینده اسگالید گل
دست کاری می کند پنهان ز دل

گفت الا یعلم هواک من خلق
ان فی نجواک صدقا ام ملق

گفت یغفل عن ظعین قد غدا
من یعاین این مثواه غدا

اینما قد هبطا او صعدا
قد تولاه و احصی عددا

گوش را اکنون ز غفلت پاک کن
استماع هجر آن غمناک کن

آن زکاتی دان که غمگین را دهی
گوش را چون پیش دستانش نهی

بشنوی غمهای رنجوران دل
فاقهٔ جان شریف از آب و گل

خانهٔ پر دود دارد پر فنی
مر ورا بگشا ز اصغا روزنی

گوش تو او را چو راه دم شود
دود تلخ از خانهٔ او کم شود

غمگساری کن تو با ما ای روی
گر به سوی رب اعلی می روی

این تردد حبس و زندانی بود
که بنگذارد که جان سویی رود

این بدین سو آن بدان سو می کشد
هر یکی گویا منم راه رشد

این تردد عقبهٔ راه حقست
ای خنک آن را که پایش مطلقست

بی تردد می رود در راه راست
ره نمی دانی بجو گامش کجاست

گام آهو را بگیر و رو معاف
تا رسی از گام آهو تا به ناف

زین روش بر اوج انور می روی
ای برادر گر بر آذر می روی

نه ز دریا ترس نه از موج و کف
چون شنیدی تو خطاب لا تخف

لا تخف دان چونک خوفت داد حق
نان فرستد چون فرستادت طبق

خوف آن کس راست کاو را خوف نیست
غصه آن کس را کش اینجا طوف نیست

English translation

You have read the story of the people of Darwan; why, then, are you still caught up in seeking stratagems? They were scheming out of their treachery to take something from the provision of some dervishes. All night long they pondered deceit, face to face, many an Amr and Bakr. In secret each told secrets to the other, as though God must not find them out. Clay schemed against the clay-shaper; the hand tries to do a deed hidden from the heart. He said: Does He who created not know your desire, whether in your private talk there is sincerity or flattery? He said: Is He heedless of a traveler who has set out, He who sees where his lodging will be tomorrow? Wherever he has descended or ascended, He has watched over him and counted all. Now cleanse the ear of heedlessness; listen to the sorrowful one's tale of separation. Count that as alms given to the grieving one, when you set your ear before his tale. You will hear the griefs of the heart-sick, the noble soul's want within water and clay. He has a smoke-filled house, full of affliction; through listening, open a window for him. When your ear becomes a breathing passage for him, the bitter smoke in his house will lessen. Share grief with us, O you who are going, if you are going toward the Lord Most High. This wavering is confinement and prison, which will not let the soul go in one direction. This pulls this way, that pulls that way; each says, I am the path of guidance. This wavering is a pass on the road of Truth; blessed is the one whose foot is free. Without wavering he goes on the straight road; if you do not know the road, seek where his footprint is. Take the gazelle's track and go unharmed, until from the gazelle's track you reach the musk-navel. By this way you ascend to the luminous height, brother, even if you are going through fire. Fear neither the sea nor wave and foam, since you have heard the address Do not fear. Understand Do not fear thus: when God has given you fear, He sends bread as He has sent you the tray. Fear belongs to the one who has no fear; grief belongs to the one who has no circling devotion here.

Updated 2026-06-30

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