1Cademy - (۵) حکایت ایاز و درد چشم او / (5) The Tale of Ayaz and His Eye Pain

Learn Before

Elahi Nameh

Poem

(۵) حکایت ایاز و درد چشم او / (5) The Tale of Ayaz and His Eye Pain

Original content

مگر از چشم زخم چشم اغیار
بدرد چشم ایاز آمد گرفتار

ز درد چشم چشمش همچو خون شد
دو نرگسدان چشمش لاله گون شد

علی الجمله چو روزی ده برآمد
ز درد چشم چشمش در سر آمد

چنان از درد چشمی ممتحن گشت
که صفرا کردش و بی خویشتن گشت

کسی محمود را از وی خبر کرد
سواره گشت محمود و گذر کرد

ببالین ایاز آمد نهان او
نهاد انگشت بر لب در زمان او

بدان بیمارداران گفت زنهار
مگردانید از شاهش خبردار

چو بنشست آن زمان محمود غازی
بجست از جا ایاز از دلنوازی

زهم بگشاد چشم و شاد بنشست
زهی بنده که چون آزاد بنشست

بدو گفتند ای از خویش رفته
تن از پس مانده جان از پیش رفته

ز درد چشم سرگردان بمانده
میان جان و تن حیران بمانده

چو شه بنشست بر بالینت از پای
تو صفرا کرده چون برجستی ازجای؟

نگفتت کس نبودت چشم بر راه
چگونه گشتی ازمحمود آگاه؟

چنین گفت او که چه حاجت شنیدن
ندارم احتیاجی هم بدیدن

ز گوش و چشم آزادست جانم
که من از جان ببویش باز دانم

چو بوی او ز جان خود شنودم
شدم زنده اگرچه مرده بودم

ندیدی آنکه یعقوب پیمبر
ببویش گشت روشن چشم در سر

تو می باید که چشم از درد سازی
ز درد چشم تو خود می گدازی

چو بوی آشنائی یافتی تو
بر آفاق دو عالم تافتی تو

که آن یک ذره نور آشنائی
چو صد خورشید دارد روشنائی

چو دایم دوستی حق چنانست
که یک ذره به از هر دو جهانست

خدائی آنچنان میداردت دوست
ازان شادی توان گنجید در پوست؟

بزرگانی که این پرگار دیدند
بصد جان نقطهٔ دردش گزیدند

هزاران جان برای یک خطابش
برافشاندند دل پر اضطرابش

English translation

Perhaps from the evil eye of strangers Ayaz's eye became afflicted with pain. From the pain, his eye became like blood The two narcissus-vessels of his eyes turned tulip-red. In short, when about ten days passed From the eye pain, his eye sank into his head. He was so tested by the eye pain That he became bilious and lost consciousness. Someone informed Mahmud of his condition Mahmud mounted and made his way there. He came secretly to Ayaz's bedside And immediately placed his finger on his lips. He told those tending the sick, 'Beware, Do not let him know of the king's presence.' As Mahmud the conqueror sat down then Ayaz jumped up from his place with joy. He opened his eyes and sat up happily Hail to the slave who sat as though free. They said to him, 'O you who had lost yourself, Body left behind and soul gone ahead, Left wandering from the pain of the eye Left bewildered between body and soul, When the king sat at your bedside, How did you, being bilious, jump from your place? No one told you, and you had no eyes on the road How did you become aware of Mahmud?' Thus he said, 'What need is there to hear? Nor do I have any need to see. My soul is free from ear and eye For through my soul, I recognize his scent. When I sensed his scent with my soul I became alive, even though I was dead. Did you not see that Jacob the Prophet By his (Joseph's) scent, the eyes in his head became bright?' You must make an eye out of pain For through the pain of the eye, you melt yourself away. When you find the scent of familiarity You shine upon the horizons of both worlds. For that single atom of the light of familiarity Possesses the brightness of a hundred suns. Since the continuous friendship of God is such That one atom of it is better than both worlds. When God loves you in such a way, Can one contain themselves in their skin from that joy? The great ones who saw this compass Chose the point of its pain with a hundred souls. Thousands of souls for a single address from Him Scattered their anxious hearts.

Updated 2026-07-03

Contributors are:

Who are from:

References