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(۸) حکایت شیخ ابوبکر واسطی با دیوانه / (8) The Tale of Sheikh Abu Bakr Vasiti with the Madman

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درآمد واسطی را انتباهی
بدیوانه ستان در شد بگاهی

یکی دیوانهٔ را دید سرمست
که گاهی نعره زد گه دست بر دست

ز شادی می شدی او سرفکنده
میان رقص یعنی بر جهنده

به پاسخ واسطی گفت ای زره دور
میان سخت بندی مانده مقهور

چو در بندی تو این شادیت از چیست
شدستی بنده آزادیت از چیست

زبان بگشاد پیش شیخ مجنون
که گر در بند دارم پای اکنون

دلم در بند نیست واصلم اینست
چو دل بگشاده دارم وصلم اینست

یقین میدان که بس مشکل فتادست
که گر بستند پایم دل گشادست

دو عالم چیست بحری نام او دل
تو در بحری بمانده پای در گل

ببحر سینهٔ خود شو زمانی
که تا در خویش گم بینی جهانی

چو باشد صد جهان در دل نهانت
کجا در چشم آید صد جهانت

زمین و آسمان آنجا بدانی
که تو هم این جهان هم آن جهانی

نمی دانم جهان در تو عیانست
بجائی ننگرد کان یک زمانست

اگر خواهی برای تو جهانی
پدید آید ز قدرت در زمانی

جهان بر تو ز اخلاطست و اسباب
نوشته هفت اقلیمش بهفت آب

در آن عالم نباشد مرغ از بیض
سرای ازخاره و آنگه حور از حیض

نباشد انگبین آنجا ز زنبور
نه شیر از بز بود نه می ز انگور

نه از آتش گشاید مرغ بریان
نه از پختن برآید فرغ الوان

وسایط چون زره برخیزد آنجا
ز هیچی این همه می ریزد آنجا

زهر نوع آنچه تو باشی خریدار
شود از آرزوی تو پدیدار

بچشم خرد منگر خویشتن را
مدان هر دو جهان جز جان و تن را

توئی جمله ز آتش چند ترسی
دل تو عرش و صدرت هست کرسی

چو دل اینجا ز عشق او فروزی
کجا در آتش دوزخ بسوزی

English translation

Vasiti experienced an awakening, He entered the madhouse at a certain time. He saw a madman who was intoxicated, Sometimes shouting, sometimes clapping hand on hand. Out of joy he was bowing his head, In the midst of dancing, that is, leaping up. In response, Vasiti said: O you who are far from the armor [protection], Remaining vanquished in the midst of a tight bond. Since you are in bonds, why is this joy of yours? You have become a slave, whence is your freedom? The madman opened his tongue before the Sheikh: That if I have my feet in bonds now, My heart is not in bonds; this is my attainment, Since I have an open heart, this is my union. Know for certain that it has happened quite difficultly, That if they bound my feet, the heart is open. What are the two worlds? A sea named the Heart; You have remained in the sea with your feet in the mud. Enter the sea of your own breast for a moment, So that you see a world lost within yourself. When a hundred worlds are hidden in your heart, Where would a hundred worlds come into your sight? You will know the earth and sky there, That you are both this world and that world. I do not know; the world is manifest in you, It gazes nowhere for that is but a moment. If you desire a world for yourself, It appears from [Divine] Power in a moment. The world for you is from humors and means, Its seven climes written with seven waters. In that world there is no bird from an egg, No palace from stone, and then no houri from menstruation. There will be no honey there from the bee, Neither milk from the goat nor wine from the grape. Neither does the roasted bird open from the fire, No colorful dish comes from cooking. Means [mediaries] like armor will rise up there, From nothingness all this pours forth there. Of every kind for which you are a buyer, It becomes manifest from your desire. Do not look at yourself with the eye of the intellect, Do not know both worlds as anything but soul and body. You are entirely from fire, how long will you fear? Your heart is the Throne and your breast is the Pedestal. When you kindle the heart here from His love, Where will you burn in the fire of Hell?

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