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مثنوی معنوی: دفتر سوم / Masnavi: Book Three

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دفتر سوم - بخش ۲۱۰ - تفسیر آیت وَ أَجْلِبْ عَلَیْهِمْ بِخَیْلِکَ وَ رَجِلِکَ / Book Three - Section 210 - Commentary on the Verse 'And rally against them with your cavalry and your infantry'

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تو چو عزم دین کنی با اجتهاد
دیو بانگت بر زند اندر نهاد

که مرو زان سو بیندیش ای غوی
که اسیر رنج و درویشی شوی

بی نوا گردی ز یاران وابری
خوار گردی و پشیمانی خوری

تو ز بیم بانگ آن دیو لعین
وا گریزی در ضلالت از یقین

که هلا فردا و پس فردا مراست
راه دین پویم که مهلت پیش ماست

مرگ بینی باز کو از چپ و راست
می کشد همسایه را تا بانگ خاست

باز عزم دین کنی از بیم جان
مرد سازی خویشتن را یک زمان

پس سلح بر بندی از علم و حکم
که من از خوفی نیارم پای کم

باز بانگی بر زند بر تو ز مکر
که بترس و باز گرد از تیغ فقر

باز بگریزی ز راه روشنی
آن سلاح علم و فن را بفکنی

سالها او را به بانگی بنده ای
در چنین ظلمت نمد افکنده ای

هیبت بانگ شیاطین خلق را
بند کردست و گرفته حلق را

تا چنان نومید شد جانشان ز نور
که روان کافران ز اهل قبور

این شکوه بانگ آن ملعون بود
هیبت بانگ خدایی چون بود

هیبت بازست بر کبک نجیب
مر مگس را نیست زان هیبت نصیب

زانک نبود باز صیاد مگس
عنکبوتان می مگس گیرند و بس

عنکبوت دیو بر چون تو ذباب
کر و فر دارد نه بر کبک و عقاب

بانگ دیوان گله بان اشقیاست
بانگ سلطان پاسبان اولیاست

تا نیامیزد بدین دو بانگ دور
قطره ای از بحر خوش با بحر شور

English translation

When you resolve on religion with earnest endeavor, the devil raises a cry within your inner nature, Saying, 'Do not go in that direction, reflect, O misguided one, for you will become a captive of pain and poverty; You will become destitute, cut off from friends, you will become humiliated and eat the bread of regret.' Out of fear of the cry of that accursed devil, you flee back into error away from certainty, Saying, 'Behold, tomorrow and the day after are mine; I will tread the path of religion, for respite lies ahead of us.' Then again you see Death, how from left and right he drags away the neighbor as soon as the cry arises. Once more, out of fear for your life, you resolve on religion; you make yourself a man for a moment. Then you gird on armor of knowledge and wisdom, saying, 'I will not retreat out of any fear.' Again, he raises a cry against you out of deceit, saying, 'Be afraid, and turn back from the sword of poverty!' Once more you flee from the path of light, and cast away that weapon of knowledge and skill. For years you have been a slave to him through a single cry, and in such darkness you have spread your felt-rug. The awe of the demons' cry has bound humankind and seized their throats, So that their souls have become as hopeless of the light as the souls of the unbelievers of the people of the graves. Since such is the majesty of the cry of that accursed one, what must the majesty of the Divine cry be? The awe of the falcon is upon the noble partridge; the fly has no share of that awe, Because the falcon is not a hunter of flies; spiders alone catch flies, and that is all. The spider of the devil has pomp and power over a fly like you, not over the partridge and the eagle. The cry of the devils is the herdsman of the wicked; the cry of the King is the guardian of the saints. So that, through these two far-sounding cries, not a single drop of the sweet sea may mix with the bitter sea.

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