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دفتر ششم - بخش ۹۷ - مثل دوبین همچو آن غریب شهر کاش عمر نام کی از یک دکانش به سبب این به آن دکان دیگر حواله کرد و او فهم نکرد کی همه دکان یکیست الی آخره / Book Six - Section 97 - The parable of the double-sighted person, like that stranger in the city of Kash named Umar, who was referred from one shop to another and did not understand that all shops are one, etc.
دفتر ششم - بخش ۹۷ - مثل دوبین همچو آن غریب شهر کاش عمر نام کی از یک دکانش به سبب این به آن دکان دیگر حواله کرد و او فهم نکرد کی همه دکان یکیست درین معنی کی به عمر نان نفروشند هم اینجا تدارک کنم من غلط کردم نامم عمر نیست چون بدین دکان توبه و تدارک کنم نان یابم از همه دکانهای این شهر و اگر بیتدارک همچنین عمر نام باشم ازین دکان در گذرم محرومم و احولم و این دکانها را از هم جدا دانستهام / Book Six - Section 97 - The parable of the cross-eyed person, like that stranger in the city of Kash named Umar, who, because of this, was referred from one shop to another and did not understand that all shops are one in the sense that they do not sell bread to an Umar. (He should have said:) 'Let me make amends right here; I made a mistake, my name is not Umar. If I repent and make amends at this shop, I will get bread from all the shops of this city. And if, without making amends, I remain named Umar and pass by this shop, I will be deprived, and I am cross-eyed and have considered these shops to be separate from one another.'
The Parable of the Cross-Eyed Stranger Named Umar in Kash in Masnavi Book Six
In Book Six of Jalaluddin Rumi's Masnavi, the parable of the stranger named Umar in the city of Kash serves as a profound allegory for spiritual dualism (double-sightedness or ahwal). In Kash, a strongly Shiite city of the time, the name Umar is highly unpopular. When the stranger named Umar asks a baker for bread, the baker redirects him to another shop under a false pretense. He is repeatedly referred from one shop to another without obtaining any bread.
Because of his 'double-sightedness' (metaphorical squint/dualism), the stranger fails to realize that all the shops are united in their refusal and act as a single cooperative entity. Rumi uses this to illustrate how spiritually blind individuals perceive the multiple phenomena and secondary causes of the material world as separate, independent forces. In reality, all of existence and its occurrences stem from a single Divine Source. Had the stranger recognized this unity, he would have repented and changed his name (aligned hi...
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