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(۴) حکایت دیوانه‌ای که سر بر در کعبه می‬‌زد / (4) The Tale of the Madman Who Beat His Head Against the Door of the Kaaba

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یکی دیوانه ای گریان و دل سوز
شبی در پیش کعبه بود تا روز

خوشی می گفت اگر نگشایی ام در
بدین در همچو حلقه می زنم سر

که تا آخر سرم بشکسته گردد
دلم زین سوز دایم رسته گردد

یکی هاتف زبان بگشاد آنگاه
که پر بت بود این خانه دو سه راه

شکسته گشت آن بت ها ی درونش
شکسته گیر یک بت از برونش

اگر می بشکنی سر از برون تو
بتی باشی که گردی سرنگون تو

درین راه از چنین سر کم نیاید
که دریا بیش یک شبنم نیاید

بزرگی چون شنید آواز هاتف
بدان اسرار شد دزدیده واقف

به خاک افتاد و چشمش خون روان کرد
بسی جان از چنین غم خون توان کرد

چو با او هیچ نتوانیم کوشید
نمی باید به صد زاری خروشید

English translation

A certain madman, weeping and burning with grief, Was in front of the Kaaba one night until dawn. He was pleading: 'If You do not open the door to me, I will beat my head against this door like a knocker, So that at last my head may be broken, And my heart may be forever freed from this burning.' Then a voice from the unseen spoke: 'This House was filled with idols two or three times. Those idols within it were broken; [Now] consider one idol on the outside of it. If you break your head on the outside, You will be an idol that will be cast down. On this path, there is no shortage of such heads, For [to this ocean] a head is no more than a single dewdrop.' When a great elder heard the voice of the unseen, He secretly became aware of those mysteries. He fell to the dust, and his eyes wept blood; Many a soul can be turned to blood by such sorrow. Since we cannot contend with Him at all, We must not cry out with a hundred wailings.

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Updated 2026-07-03

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Humanities

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Persian Literature Prerequisite Course

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