1Cademy - (۲) حکایت مرد نمازی و مسجد و سگ / (2) The Tale of the Praying Man, the Mosque, and the Dog

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Elahi Nameh

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(۲) حکایت مرد نمازی و مسجد و سگ / (2) The Tale of the Praying Man, the Mosque, and the Dog

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شبی در مسجدی شد نیک مردی
که در دین داشت اندک مایه دردی

عزیمت کرد آن شب مرد دلسوز
که نبود جز نمازش کار تا روز

چو شب تاریک شد بانگی برآمد
کسی گفتی بدان مسجد درآمد

چنان پنداشت آنمرد نمازی
که هست آن کاملی در کارسازی

بدل گفتا چنین جائی چنین کس
برای طاعت حق آید و بس

مرا این مرد نیکو هوش دارد
نماز و طاعتم را گوش دارد

همه شب تا بروزش بود طاعت
نیاسود از عبادت هیچ ساعت

دعا و زاری بسیار کرد او
گهی توبه گه استغفار کرد او

بجای آورد آداب و سنن را
نکو بنمود الحق خویشتن را

چو صبح صادق از مشرق برآمد
وزان نوری بدان مسجد درآمد

گشاد آن مرد چشم آنجا نهفته
یکی سگ بود در مسجد بخفته

ازان تشویر خون در جانش افتاد
چو باران اشک بر مژگانش افتاد

دلش بر آتش حجلت چنان سوخت
که از آه دلش کام و زبان سوخت

زبان بگشاد گفت ای بی ادب مرد
ترا امشب بدین سگ حق ادب کرد

همه شب بهر سگ در کار بودی
شبی حق را چنین بیدار بودی

ندیدم یک شبت هرگز باخلاص
که طاعت کردی از بهر خدا خاص

بسی سگ بهتر از تو ای مرائی
ببین تا سگ کجا و تو کجائی

ز بی شرمی شدی غرق ریا تو
نداری شرم آخر ازخدا تو

چو پرده برفتد از پیش آخر
چه گوئی با خدای خویش آخر

کنون چون پایگاه خود بدیدم
امید از کار خود کلی بریدم

ز من کاری نیاید در جهان نیز
وگر آید سگان را شاید آن نیز

چرا خواهی حریف دیو بودن
ز نقش و از صفت کالیو بودن

ازین ظلم آشیان دیو بگریز
وزین زندان پر کالیو بگریز

چه می خواهی ازین دجال بانان
چه می جوئی ازین مهدی نمایان

ترا چون دشمنی از دوستانست
خسک در راه تو از بوستانست

بسی دجال مهدی روی هستند
که چون دجال از پندار مستند

پی دجال جادو چند گیری
نه وقت آمد که آخر پندگیری

اگر آخر زمان زین ناتمامی
پی دجال گیرد هفت گامی

چنین نقلست از دانندهٔ راز
که نتواند که زو گردد دمی باز

متابع گردد او را در همه حال
بماند جاودان در خیل دجال

کسی کو هفت گامی کان نه دینست
پی دجال برگیرد چنین است

کسی هفتاد سال از مکر و تلبیس
نهد گام ای عجب بر گام ابلیس

چو ابلیسست دجالی که او راست
ندانم چون بود حالی که او راست

چو دجالت یکی دیوست مکار
یکی دنیا یکی نفس ستمگار

کسی با این همه دجال سرکش
چگونه زو برآید یک نفس خوش

بسا مهدی دل پاکیزه رفتار
کزین دجال دنیا شد گرفتار

بسا خونا که این دجال کردش
نه روزی ده هزاران سال کردش

English translation

One night, a good man entered a mosque, who had a small amount of devotion in his religion. That compassionate man made a firm resolve that night, that his work until daybreak would be nothing but prayer. When the night became dark, a sound arose, as if someone had entered the mosque. The praying man imagined thus, that it was some perfect master in spiritual matters. He said to himself, 'In such a place, such a person comes only for the worship of God. This good man will keep me mindful, he will listen to my prayer and worship.' All night until morning he was in worship, he did not rest from devotion for a single hour. He made many prayers and lamentations, at times repenting, at times seeking forgiveness. He performed the rites and customs, he showed himself very well indeed. When the true dawn arose from the east, and light entered the mosque from it, that man opened his eyes, which had been closed in contemplation, and saw a dog asleep in the mosque! From that shame, blood fell into his soul, and tears like rain fell upon his eyelashes. His heart burned so intensely on the fire of shame, that his palate and tongue burned from the sigh of his heart. He opened his tongue and said: 'O ill-mannered man! Tonight, God disciplined you by means of this dog. All night you were performing deeds for a dog! Had you ever been awake like this for God? I have never seen you sincere for a single night, performing worship purely for the sake of God. Many dogs are better than you, O hypocrite! See where the dog is and where you are. Out of shamelessness, you became drowned in hypocrisy, do you have no shame before God? When the veil is finally removed from before you, what will you say to your Lord? Now that I have seen my own station, I have completely cut off hope from my deeds. No work will come from me in the world anymore, and if it does, it might only be fit for dogs. Why do you want to be a companion of the demon, and be foolish in form and attribute? Flee from this nest of oppression of the demon, and escape from this prison full of fools. What do you want from these keepers of the Dajjal (Antichrist)? What do you seek from these who pretend to be the Mahdi? Since you have enmity from friends, thorns in your path are like a garden. There are many Mahdi-faced Dajjals, who, like the Dajjal, are drunk on delusion. How long will you follow the sorcerous Dajjal? Is it not time that you finally take advice? If, in the end of times, due to this imperfection, one takes seven steps after the Dajjal, thus it is narrated by the knower of secrets, that he will not be able to turn back from him even for a moment, he will follow him in every state, and remain forever in the host of the Dajjal. He who takes seven steps that are not of faith, following the Dajjal is like this. What of him who for seventy years, out of deceit and delusion, places his footsteps, wonderfully, in the footsteps of Iblis (Satan)? For the Dajjal he has is like Iblis, I do not know how his state will be. For your Dajjal is a cunning demon, one is the world, and one is the tyrannical self (ego). Anyone with all these rebellious Dajjals, how can a single happy breath come from him? Many a Mahdi-hearted, pure-acting person has been captured by this Dajjal of the world. Many are the bloods this Dajjal has spilled, not for a day, but for ten thousand years.'

Updated 2026-07-03

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