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(۸) حکایت جوان صاحب معرفت وبهشت و لقای حق تعالی / (8) The Tale of the Youth Possessing Knowledge, Paradise, and the Encounter with God Almighty

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چنین نقلست در اخبار کان روز
که برخیزد قیامت وان همه سوز

جوانی در میان آید مزین
بگرد او هزاران مقرعه زن

زهر سو راه می جویند آنگاه
جهانی می دهند از بهر او راه

بخازن پس خطاب آید ز جبار
که او را در فلان قصری فرود آر

دران قصرش فرود آرند دلشاد
همه حوران ز شوق او بفریاد

دریچه باشد آن قصر نکو را
هزار و دو هزار از هر سو او را

بهر درکان جوان می بنگرد راست
خدای خویش را بیند که آنجاست

هزاران درگشاید هر زمانی
زهر دو ظاهرش گردد جهانی

ولی در هر جهان از مرد و زن او
نه بیند جز خدای خویشتن او

دوعالم را تمنای وصالست
ولیک آن جمله سودای محالست

نه هر کس را رسد بوئی از آنجا
نه هر چوگان زند گوئی از آنجا

دلی باید ز حق ترسان و بریان
زبانی از رهش پرسان و ترسان

ترا گر با توئی آنست پیشه
که می ترسی و می پرسی همیشه

نهادت جمله این اندیشه گیرد
همه شهر دلت این پیشه گیرد

که تا یک لحظه بوی آن توان برد
ولیکن از مشام جان توان برد

ترا عمر حقیقی آن زمانست
که جانت در حضور دلستانست

وگر عمر تو بیرون زین حسابست
بهر دم در حسابت صد حجابست

English translation

Such is recounted in the traditions that on that day When Resurrection arises and all that burning A youth will step forward, adorned, Around him thousands beating drums. From every side they seek a way then, A world makes way for him. Then an address comes to the Guardian of Paradise from the Almighty, 'Lodge him in such-and-such a palace.' They lodge him in that palace, joyful, All the houris crying out from yearning for him. That beautiful palace has windows, A thousand and two thousand from every side for him. At every door, the youth looks straight, He sees his God, who is there. He opens thousands of doors at every moment, From each, a world becomes manifest to him. But in every world, of man and woman, He sees nothing but his own God. The two worlds desire union, But all that is an impossible melancholy. Not everyone catches a scent from there, Not everyone strikes a ball with the polo stick from there. A heart is needed, fearful of God and roasted, A tongue asking and fearing on His path. If your practice with yourself is this, That you fear and ask always, Your whole nature will take up this thought, The whole city of your heart will take up this practice, So that for one moment one might carry its scent, But only from the soul's sense of smell. Your true life is that time, When your soul is in the presence of the Heart-Ravisher. And if your life is outside of this reckoning, At every breath in your reckoning there are a hundred veils.

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Updated 2026-07-03

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