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دفتر دوم - بخش ۸ - التزام کردن خادم تعهد بهیمه را و تخلف نمودن / Book Two - Section 8 - The Servant Undertaking the Care of the Animal and Failing to Fulfill It
مثنوی معنوی: دفتر دوم / Masnavi: Book Two

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دفتر دوم - بخش ۵ - اندرز کردن صوفی خادم را در تیمار داشت بهیمه و لا حول خادم / Book Two - Section 5 - The Sufi Advising the Servant on the Care of the Animal, and the Servant's Saying 'La Hawla'

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صوفیی می گشت در دور افق
تا شبی در خانقاهی شد قنق

یک بهیمه داشت در آخر ببست
او به صدر صفه با یاران نشست

پس مراقب گشت با یاران خویش
دفتری باشد حضور یار پیش

دفتر صوفی سواد حرف نیست
جز دل اسپید همچون برف نیست

زاد دانشمند آثار قلم
زاد صوفی چیست آثار قدم

همچو صیادی سوی اشکار شد
گام آهو دید و بر آثار شد

چندگاهش گام آهو در خورست
بعد از آن خود ناف آهو رهبرست

چونک شکر گام کرد و ره برید
لاجرم زان گام در کامی رسید

رفتن یک منزلی بر بوی ناف
بهتر از صد منزل گام و طواف

آن دلی کو مطلع مهتاب هاست
بهر عارف فتحت ابواب هاست

با تو دیوارست و با ایشان درست
با تو سنگ و با عزیزان گوهرست

آنچ تو در آینه بینی عیان
پیر اندر خشت بیند بیش از آن

پیر ایشانند کین عالم نبود
جان ایشان بود در دریای جود

پیش ازین تن عمرها بگذاشتند
پیشتر از کشت بر برداشتند

پیشتر از نقش جان پذرفته اند
پیشتر از بحر درها سفته اند

English translation

A Sufi was traveling around the horizon until one night he became a guest in a khanqah. He had an animal; he tied it in the stable, and he sat at the front of the platform with his companions. Then he became watchful in spiritual attention with his companions; the presence of the Friend before one is a book. The Sufi's book is not the blackness of letters; it is nothing but a heart white as snow. The scholar's provision is the traces of the pen; what is the Sufi's provision? The traces of the foot. Like a hunter, he went toward the quarry; he saw the deer's tracks and followed the traces. For a while the deer's tracks are suitable for him; after that, the deer's musk-pod itself is the guide. When he gave thanks for the tracks and traversed the road, inevitably from those tracks he reached fulfillment. To go one stage by the scent of the musk-pod is better than a hundred stages of tracks and circumambulation. That heart which is the rising-place of moonlights is, for the knower, an opening of doors. To you it is a wall, but to them it is a door; to you it is stone, but to the beloved ones it is a jewel. What you see plainly in a mirror, the Pir sees more than that in a brick. The Pirs are those for whom this world did not exist; their souls were in the sea of generosity. Before this body, they had passed through lifetimes; before sowing, they had reaped the crop. Before form, they had received soul; before the sea, they had pierced pearls.

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