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دفتر اول - بخش ۹۸ - در بیان این حدیث کی ان لربکم فی ایام دهرکم نفحات الا فتعر ضوا لها / Book One - Section 98 - In Explanation of This Hadith That 'Verily, Your Lord Has Breaths in the Days of Your Time, So Expose Yourselves to Them'

متن و ترجمه / Text and Translation

گفت پیغامبر که نفحتهای حقاندرین ایام می آرد سبق
The Prophet said: the breaths of the Real
bring precedence in these days.
گوش و هش دارید این اوقات رادر ربایید این چنین نفحات را
Keep your ear and awareness on these times;
snatch up such breaths.
نفحه آمد مر شما را دید و رفتهر که را می خواست جان بخشید و رفت
A breath came, saw you, and passed on;
it gave life to whom it wished and passed on.
نفحهٔ دیگر رسید آگاه باشتا ازین هم وانمانی خواجه تاش
Another breath has arrived; be alert,
so that you too are not left behind from this one, fellow servant.
جان آتش یافت زو آتش کشیجان مرده یافت از وی جنبشی
A fiery soul found from it a drawing-away of fire;
a dead soul found from it movement.
جان ناری یافت از وی انطفامرده پوشید از بقای او قبا
A hellish soul found from it extinction;
the dead one put on a robe from His abiding life.
تازگی و جنبش طوبیست اینهمچو جنبشهای حیوان نیست این
This freshness and movement is of Tuba;
it is not like the movements of animals.
گر در افتد در زمین و آسمانزهره هاشان آب گردد در زمان
If it should fall on earth and heaven,
their hearts would at once melt to water.
خود ز بیم این دم بی منتهاباز خوان فابین ان یحملنها
From fear of this endless breath itself,
recite again: 'they refused to bear it.'
ورنه خود اشفقن منها چون بدیگرنه از بیمش دل که خون شدی
Otherwise, how would 'they were afraid of it' be true?
If not from fear of it, whose heart would have become blood?
دوش دیگر لون این می داد دستلقمهٔ چندی درآمد ره ببست
Last night another color of this was being offered;
a few morsels came in and blocked the road.
بهر لقمه گشته لقمانی گرووقت لقمانست ای لقمه برو
For the sake of a morsel, Luqman has been held hostage;
it is Luqman's time: O morsel, go away.
از هوای لقمهٔ این خارخاراز کف لقمان همی جویید خار
Because of the craving of the morsel, this scratching irritation,
you keep looking for a thorn in Luqman's hand.
در کف او خار و سایه ش نیز نیستلیکتان از حرص آن تمییز نیست
In his hand there is neither thorn nor even its shadow,
but because of greed you lack that discernment.
خار دان آن را که خرما دیده ایزانک بس نان کور و بس نادیده ای
Know as a thorn what you have seen as a date,
for you are very bread-blind and very unseeing.
جان لقمان که گلستان خداستپای جانش خستهٔ خاری چراست
The soul of Luqman, which is God's rose garden:
why should the foot of his soul be wounded by a thorn?
اشتر آمد این وجود خارخوارمصطفی زادی برین اشتر سوار
This existence is a thorn-eating camel;
you, born of Mustafa, are mounted on this camel.
اشترا تنگ گلی بر پشت تستکز نسیمش در تو صد گلزار رست
O camel, a pannier of roses is on your back;
from its breeze a hundred rose gardens have grown in you.
میل تو سوی مغیلانست و ریگتا چه گل چینی ز خار مردریگ
Your inclination is toward camel-thorn and sand;
what flower will you gather from the thorn of the dead-sand waste?
ای بگشته زین طلب از کو بکوچند گویی کین گلستان کو و کو
You who have gone from street to street in this search,
how long will you say, 'Where, where is this rose garden?'
پیش از آن کین خار پا بیرون کنیچشم تاریکست جولان چون کنی
Before you pull this thorn from your foot,
your eye is dark; how can you roam?
آدمی کو می نگنجد در جهاندر سر خاری همی گردد نهان
The human being who cannot be contained in the world
is hidden in the head of a thorn.
مصطفی آمد که سازد همدمیکلمینی یا حمیرا کلمی
Mustafa came to make companionship:
'Speak to me, O Humayra, speak to me.'
ای حمیرا اندر آتش نه تو نعلتا ز نعل تو شود این کوه لعل
O Humayra, put your sandal into the fire,
so that through your sandal this mountain may become ruby.
این حمیرا لفظ تانیثست و جاننام تانیثش نهند این تازیان
This word Humayra is a feminine form, and the soul:
these Arabs give it a feminine name.
لیک از تانیث جان را باک نیستروح را با مرد و زن اشراک نیست
But the soul has no fear of femininity;
spirit has no participation in male and female.
از مؤنث وز مذکر برترستاین نی آن جانست کز خشک و ترست
It is above feminine and masculine;
this is not that soul which belongs to dry and wet.
این نه آن جانست کافزاید ز نانیا گهی باشد چنین گاهی چنان
This is not that soul which increases by bread,
or is now like this and now like that.
خوش کننده ست و خوش و عین خوشیبی خوشی نبود خوشی ای مرتشی
It is delight-maker, delight, and the very essence of delight;
there is no delight without delight, O bribe-taker.
چون تو شیرین از شکر باشی بودکان شکر گاهی ز تو غایب شود
When you are sweet from sugar, it may be
that the sugar is sometimes absent from you.
چون شکر گردی ز تاثیر وفاپس شکر کی از شکر باشد جدا
When, through the effect of fidelity, you become sugar,
then how can sugar be separated from sugar?
عاشق از خود چون غذا یابد رحیقعقل آنجا گم شود گم ای رفیق
When the lover finds food and pure wine from himself,
reason is lost there, lost, my friend.
عقل جزوی عشق را منکر بودگرچه بنماید که صاحب سر بود
Particular reason denies Love,
although it may appear to be possessor of the secret.
زیرک و داناست اما نیست نیستتا فرشته لا نشد آهرمنیست
It is clever and knowing, but it is not not-being;
until the angel becomes 'No,' it is demonic.
او بقول و فعل یار ما بودچون بحکم حال آیی لا بود
In word and deed it is our companion;
when you come to the judgment of spiritual state, it is 'No.'
لا بود چون او نشد از هست نیستچونک طوعا لا نشد کرها بسیست
It is 'No' because it has not become nothing from existence;
since it has not willingly become 'No,' there is much compulsion.
جان کمالست و ندای او کمالمصطفی گویان ارحنا یا بلال
The soul is perfection, and its call is perfection:
Mustafa saying, 'Give us rest, O Bilal.'
ای بلال افراز بانگ سلسلتزان دمی کاندر دمیدم در دلت
O Bilal, raise the sound of your chain,
from that breath which I breathed into your heart,
زان دمی کادم از آن مدهوش گشتهوش اهل آسمان بیهوش گشت
from that breath by which Adam became bewildered,
and the awareness of the people of heaven became unconscious.
مصطفی بی خویش شد زان خوب صوتشد نمازش از شب تعریس فوت
Mustafa became selfless from that beautiful sound;
his prayer was missed on the night of al-Ta'ris.
سر از آن خواب مبارک بر نداشتتا نماز صبحدم آمد بچاشت
He did not raise his head from that blessed sleep
until the dawn prayer came at forenoon.
در شب تعریس پیش آن عروسیافت جان پاک ایشان دستبوس
On the night of al-Ta'ris, before that bride,
their pure souls attained the kissing of the hand.
عشق و جان هر دو نهانند و ستیرگر عروسش خوانده ام عیبی مگیر
Love and soul are both hidden and veiled;
if I have called it a bride, do not find fault.
از ملولی یار خامش کردمیگر همو مهلت بدادی یکدمی
Out of concern that the Friend might grow weary, I would have fallen silent,
if He Himself had given me a moment's respite.
لیک می گوید بگو هین عیب نیستجز تقاضای قضای غیب نیست
But He says, 'Speak! Come, there is no fault;
it is only the demand of the decree of the unseen.'
عیب باشد کو نبیند جز که عیبعیب کی بیند روان پاک غیب
Fault belongs to one who sees nothing but fault;
when does the pure soul of the unseen see fault?
عیب شد نسبت به مخلوق جهولنی به نسبت با خداوند قبول
Fault is so in relation to the ignorant creature,
not in relation to the Lord of acceptance.
کفر هم نسبت به خالق حکمتستچون به ما نسبت کنی کفر آفتست
Even unbelief, in relation to the Creator, is wisdom;
when you relate it to us, unbelief is calamity.
ور یکی عیبی بود با صد حیاتبر مثال چوب باشد در نبات
And if there is one flaw with a hundred lives,
it is like a piece of wood in sugarcane.
در ترازو هر دو را یکسان کشندزانک آن هر دو چو جسم و جان خوشند
In the scales they weigh both together,
for those two are pleasant like body and soul.
پس بزرگان این نگفتند از گزافجسم پاکان عین جان افتاد صاف
Thus the great ones did not say this idly:
the bodies of the pure became the very essence of the clear soul.
گفتشان و نفسشان و نقششانجمله جان مطلق آمد بی نشان
Their speech, breath, and form
all became absolute soul, without trace.
جان دشمن دارشان جسمست صرفچون زیاد از نرد او اسمست صرف
What is hostile to their soul is sheer body;
as in backgammon, what is additional is only a name.
آن به خاک اندر شد و کل خاک شدوین نمک اندر شد و کل پاک شد
That went into earth and became wholly earth;
this went into salt and became wholly pure.
آن نمک کز وی محمد املحستزان حدیث با نمک او افصحست
That salt by which Muhammad is most gracious and savory:
from that salt-savored saying of his he is most eloquent.
این نمک باقیست از میراث اوبا توند آن وارثان او بجو
This salt remains from his inheritance;
those inheritors of his are with you, seek them.
پیش تو شسته ترا خود پیش کوپیش هستت جان پیش اندیش کو
Before you is the washed one; where is your own 'before'?
Before your existence, where is the foreseeing soul?
گر تو خود را پیش و پس داری گمانبستهٔ جسمی و محرومی ز جان
If you imagine yourself to have before and behind,
you are bound to body and deprived of soul.
زیر و بالا پیش و پس وصف تنستبی جهتها ذات جان روشنست
Below and above, before and behind, are attributes of body;
the bright essence of soul is without directions.
برگشا از نور پاک شه نظرتا نپنداری تو چون کوته نظر
Open your sight by the pure light of the King,
so that you, short-sighted, do not suppose
که همینی در غم و شادی و بسای عدم کو مر عدم را پیش و پس
that you are only this grief and joy and no more.
O nonbeing, where are before and behind for nonbeing?
روز بارانست می رو تا به شبنه ازین باران از آن باران رب
It is a rainy day; go on until night,
not from this rain, but from that rain of the Lord.

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