1Cademy - دفتر سوم - بخش ۱۵۳ - ربودن عقاب موزهٔ مصطفی علیه السلام و بردن بر هوا و نگون کردن و از موزه مار سیاه فرو افتادن / Book Three - Section 153 - The Eagle Snatching the Shoe of Mustafa, Peace Be Upon Him, Carrying It into the Air, Turning It Upside Down, and a Black Snake Falling from the Shoe

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مثنوی معنوی: دفتر سوم / Masnavi: Book Three

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دفتر سوم - بخش ۱۵۳ - ربودن عقاب موزهٔ مصطفی علیه السلام و بردن بر هوا و نگون کردن و از موزه مار سیاه فرو افتادن / Book Three - Section 153 - The Eagle Snatching the Shoe of Mustafa, Peace Be Upon Him, Carrying It into the Air, Turning It Upside Down, and a Black Snake Falling from the Shoe

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اندرین بودند کآواز صلا
مصطفی بشنید از سوی علا

خواست آبی و وضو را تازه کرد
دست و رو را شست او زان آب سرد

هر دو پا شست و به موزه کرد رای
موزه را بربود یک موزه ربای

دست سوی موزه برد آن خوش خطاب
موزه را بربود از دستش عقاب

موزه را اندر هوا برد او چو باد
پس نگون کرد و از آن ماری فتاد

در فتاد از موزه یک مار سیاه
زان عنایت شد عقابش نیکخواه

پس عقاب آن موزه را آورد باز
گفت هین بستان و رو سوی نماز

از ضرورت کردم این گستاخیی
من ز ادب دارم شکسته شاخیی

وای کو گستاخ پایی می نهد
بی ضرورت کش هوا فتوی دهد

پس رسولش شکر کرد و گفت ما
این جفا دیدیم و بود این خود وفا

موزه بربودی و من درهم شدم
تو غمم بردی و من در غم شدم

گرچه هر غیبی خدا ما را نمود
دل در آن لحظه به خود مشغول بود

گفت دور از تو که غفلت در تو رست
دیدنم آن غیب را هم عکس تست

مار در موزه ببینم بر هوا
نیست از من عکس تست ای مصطفی

عکس نورانی همه روشن بود
عکس ظلمانی همه گلخن بود

عکس عبدالله همه نوری بود
عکس بیگانه همه کوری بود

عکس هر کس را بدان ای جان ببین
پهلوی جنسی که خواهی می نشین

English translation

While they were thus occupied, Mustafa heard the call to prayer from the direction above. He called for water and renewed his ablution, washing his hands and face with that cold water. He washed both feet and intended to put on his shoe — a shoe-snatcher snatched the shoe. That fair-spoken one reached his hand toward the shoe — an eagle snatched the shoe from his hand. It carried the shoe through the air like the wind, then turned it upside down, and a snake fell from it. A black snake fell out of the shoe — through that act of care, the eagle became his well-wisher. Then the eagle brought the shoe back, saying: "Here, take it and go to prayer." "Out of necessity I committed this boldness; out of reverence I carry a broken branch." Woe to him who steps boldly without necessity, led by his own caprice. Then the Messenger thanked it and said: "We saw this as harshness, yet it was in truth faithfulness. You snatched the shoe and I was distressed; you took away my grief, yet I fell into grief." Though God has shown us every hidden thing, the heart in that moment was occupied with itself. The eagle said: "Far be it from you that heedlessness grew in you — my sight of that hidden thing is itself your reflection. That I saw the snake in the shoe while in the air — that is not from me; it is your reflection, O Mustafa. The luminous reflection is wholly bright; the dark reflection is wholly a furnace-pit. The reflection of 'Abd Allāh is wholly light; the reflection of the stranger is wholly blindness. Know the reflection of every person by this, O soul — sit beside whichever kind you desire."

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