Poem

حکایت طاووس / The Tale of the Peacock

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بعد از آن طاووس آمد زرنگار
نقش پرش صد چه؟ بلکه صد هزار

چون عروسی جلوه کردن ساز کرد
هر پر او جلوه ای آغاز کرد

گفت: تا نقاش غیبم نقش بست
چینیان را شد قلم انگشت دست

گر چه من جبریل مرغانم ولیک
رفت بر من از قضا کاری نه نیک

یار شد با من به یک جا مار زشت
تا بیفتادم به خواری از بهشت

چون بدل کردند خلوت جای من
تخت بند پای من شد بای من

عزم آن دارم کزین تاریک جای
رهبری باشد به خلدم رهنمای

من نه آن مردم که در سلطان رسم
بس بود اینم که در دروان رسم

کی بود سیمرغ را پروای من؟
بس بود فردوس عالی جای من

من ندارم در جهان کاری دگر
تا بهشتم ره دهد باری دگر

هدهدش گفت: ای ز خود گم کرده راه!
هر که خواهد خانه ای از پادشاه

گوی نزدیکی او، این زآن به است؟
خانه ای، از حضرت سلطان به است؟

خانهٔ نفس است خلد پر هوس
خانهٔ دل مقعد صدق است و بس

حضرت حق هست دریای عظیم
قطرهٔ خرد است جنات النعیم

قطره باشد هر که را دریا بود
هر چه جز دریا بود، سودا بود

چون به دریا می توانی راه یافت
سوی یک شبنم چرا باید شتافت؟

هر که داند گفت با خورشید راز
کی تواند ماند از یک ذره باز؟

هر که کل شد، جزو را با او چه کار؟
وآن که جان شد، عضو را با او چه کار؟

گر تو هستی مرد کلی، کل ببین
کل طلب، کل باش، کل شو، کل گزین

English translation

After that came the golden peacock, The patterns on his feathers not a hundred, but a hundred thousand. When like a bride he began to display himself, Every feather of his began a manifestation. He said: 'Since the Unseen Painter painted my pattern, The brush became the finger of the Chinese. Although I am the Gabriel of the birds, yet By fate a deed befell me that was not good. The ugly snake became my companion in one place, Until I fell in disgrace from Paradise. When they changed my place of seclusion, My foot became the block for my feet. I have the resolve that from this dark place, A guide may lead me to my eternal home. I am not the man to reach the King, It is enough for me to reach the court. When would the Simorgh have any concern for me? The highest Paradise is enough as my place. I have no other business in the world, But that He grants me passage to Paradise once more.' The hoopoe said to him: 'O you who have lost the way from yourself! Whoever wants a house from the King, Say, is His nearness not better than that? Is a house better than the presence of the Sultan? The house of the ego is the Paradise full of lust, The house of the heart is the seat of truth and nothing else. The presence of the Truth is a mighty ocean, The Gardens of Delight are but a small drop. It is a drop for whoever possesses the ocean, Whatever is besides the ocean is an illusion. When you can find a way to the ocean, Why should you hasten toward a dewdrop? Whoever knows how to tell a secret to the sun, How can he remain held back by a single atom? Whoever became the whole, what business has he with the part? And he who became the soul, what business has he with the member? If you are a man of the whole, see the whole, Seek the whole, be the whole, become the whole, choose the whole.'

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Updated 2026-07-02

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