1Cademy - دفتر اول - بخش ۱۵۶ - در بیان آنک حال خود و مستی خود پنهان باید داشت از جاهلان / Book One - Section 156 - In Explanation That One Must Conceal Ones State and Intoxication From the Ignorant

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دفتر اول - بخش ۱۵۶ - در بیان آنک حال خود و مستی خود پنهان باید داشت از جاهلان / Book One - Section 156 - In Explanation That One Must Conceal One's State and Intoxication From the Ignorant

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بشنو الفاظ حکیم پرده ای
سر همانجا نه که باده خورده ای

چونک از میخانه مستی ضال شد
تسخر و بازیچهٔ اطفال شد

می فتد او سو به سو بر هر رهی
در گل و می خنددش هر ابلهی

او چنین و کودکان اندر پیش
بی خبر از مستی و ذوق میش

خلق اطفالند جز مست خدا
نیست بالغ جز رهیده از هوا

گفت دنیا لعب و لهوست و شما
کودکیت و راست فرماید خدا

از لعب بیرون نرفتی کودکی
بی ذکات روح کی باشد ذکی

چون جماع طفل دان این شهوتی
که همی رانند اینجا ای فتی

آن جماع طفل چه بود بازیی
با جماع رستمی و غازیی

جنگ خلقان همچو جنگ کودکان
جمله بی معنی و بی مغز و مهان

جمله با شمشیر چوبین جنگشان
جمله در لا ینفعی آهنگشان

جمله شان گشته سواره بر نیی
کین براق ماست یا دلدل پیی

حاملند و خود ز جهل افراشته
راکب و محمول ره پنداشته

باش تا روزی که محمولان حق
اسپ تازان بگذرند از نه طبق

تعرج الروح الیه و الملک
من عروج الروح یهتز الفلک

همچو طفلان جمله تان دامن سوار
گوشهٔ دامن گرفته اسپ وار

از حق ان الظن لا یغنی رسید
مرکب ظن بر فلکها کی دوید

اغلب الظنین فی ترجیح ذا
لا تماری الشمس فی توضیحها

آنگهی بینید مرکبهای خویش
مرکبی سازیده ایت از پای خویش

وهم و فکر و حس و ادراک شما
همچو نی دان مرکب کودک هلا

علمهای اهل دل حمالشان
علمهای اهل تن احمالشان

علم چون بر دل زند یاری شود
علم چون بر تن زند باری شود

گفت ایزد یحمل اسفاره
بار باشد علم کان نبود ز هو

علم کان نبود ز هو بی واسطه
آن نپاید همچو رنگ ماشطه

لیک چون این بار را نیکو کشی
بار بر گیرند و بخشندت خوشی

هین مکش بهر هوا آن بار علم
تا ببینی در درون انبار علم

تا که بر رهوار علم آیی سوار
بعد از آن افتد ترا از دوش بار

از هواها کی رهی بی جام هو
ای ز هو قانع شده با نام هو

از صفت وز نام چه زاید خیال
و آن خیالش هست دلال وصال

دیده ای دلال بی مدلول هیچ
تا نباشد جاده نبود غول هیچ

هیچ نامی بی حقیقت دیده ای
یا ز گاف و لام گل، گل چیده ای

اسم خواندی رو مسمی را بجو
مه به بالا دان نه اندر آب جو

گر ز نام و حرف خواهی بگذری
پاک کن خود را ز خود هین یکسری

همچو آهن ز آهنی بی رنگ شو
در ریاضت آینهٔ بی زنگ شو

خویش را صافی کن از اوصاف خود
تا ببینی ذات پاک صاف خود

بینی اندر دل علوم انبیا
بی کتاب و بی معید و اوستا

گفت پیغمبر که هست از امتم
کو بود هم گوهر و هم همتم

مر مرا زان نور بیند جانشان
که من ایشان را همی بینم بدان

بی صحیحین و احادیث و روات
بلک اندر مشرب آب حیات

سر امسینا لکردیا بدان
راز اصبحنا عرابیا بخوان

ور مثالی خواهی از علم نهان
قصه گو از رومیان و چینیان

English translation

Hear the words of the sage behind the veil: lay your head in the same place where you drank the wine. When a drunkard strays from the tavern, he becomes the mockery and plaything of children. He falls this way and that on every road, into the mud, and every fool laughs at him. He is in that state, while children stand before him, unaware of his drunkenness and the taste of his wine. People are children except the one intoxicated with God; none is mature except one freed from desire. God said: the world is play and diversion, and you are childish; God speaks truly. You have not gone beyond play, so you are a child; without the purification-alms of the spirit, how could one be discerning? Know this lust that people pursue here, O youth, as a child's intercourse. What is a child's intercourse? A game, compared with the intercourse of a Rustam or a holy warrior. The wars of people are like the wars of children, all meaningless, pithless, and base. All their fighting is with wooden swords; all their aims are in what does not profit. They have all mounted a reed, saying: this is our Buraq, or a mount with Duldul's feet. They are carriers, and in ignorance have raised themselves up, imagining rider and carried thing to be on the road. Wait until the day when those carried by the Truth gallop beyond the nine spheres: the Spirit and the angel ascend to Him; from the Spirit's ascent the sphere trembles. Like children, all of you ride on your hems, holding the corner of the hem as if it were a horse. From the Truth came: conjecture avails nothing; when did the mount of conjecture ever run through the heavens? Most conjectures are only for preferring this over that; do not dispute with the sun about its illumination. Then you will see your own mounts: you have made a mount out of your own feet. Your fancy, thought, sense, and perception: know them, beware, as the child's reed-mount. The knowledges of the people of the heart carry them; the knowledges of the people of the body are their burdens. When knowledge reaches the heart, it becomes a helper; when knowledge reaches the body, it becomes a load. God said, he carries his tomes; knowledge that is not from Hu is a burden. Knowledge that is not directly from Hu does not last, like the cosmetic color of a beautician. But when you bear this burden well, they lift the burden and grant you joy. Take care: do not carry that burden of knowledge for desire's sake, so that you may see within yourself the storehouse of knowledge, and so that you may mount the smooth-paced steed of knowledge; after that the load will fall from your shoulder. How will you be freed from desires without the cup of Hu, O you who are content with the name of Hu instead of Hu? From attribute and name, what is born? Imagination; and that imagination is the broker of union. Have you ever seen a broker without a thing meant, or a sign without a signified? Without a road there is no ghoul. Have you ever seen a name without a reality, or plucked a rose from the letters gaf and lam of gol? You have read the name; go, seek the named. Know the moon to be above, not in the water of the stream. If you wish to pass beyond name and letter, purify yourself from yourself entirely. Like iron, become free of iron-color; in discipline become a mirror without rust. Purify yourself of your own attributes, so that you may see your own pure, clear essence. You will see in the heart the sciences of the prophets, without book, without repeater, and without master. The Prophet said: there is one from my community who is of my substance and my aspiration. Their souls see me by that light by which I see them, without the two Sahihs and hadiths and transmitters, but rather at the drinking-place of the Water of Life. Know the secret of 'we became Kurdish in the evening'; read the mystery of 'we became Arabic in the morning.' And if you want an example of hidden knowledge, tell the story of the Rumians and the Chinese.

Updated 2026-06-30

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