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دفتر اول - بخش ۹۲ - رجوع به حکایت خواجهٔ تاجر / Book 1 - Section 92 - Return to the Tale of the Merchant Khwaja

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بس دراز است این ، حدیث خواجه گو
تا چه شد احوال آن مرد نکو

خواجه اندر آتش و درد و حنین
صد پراکنده همی گفت این چنین

گه تناقض گاه ناز و گه نیاز
گاه سودای حقیقت گه مجاز

مرد غرقه گشته جانی می کند
دست را در هر گیاهی می زند

تا کدامش دست گیرد در خطر
دست و پایی می زند از بیم سر

دوست دارد یار این آشفتگی
کوشش بیهوده به از خفتگی

آنک او شاهست او بی کار نیست
ناله از وی طرفه کو بیمار نیست

بهر این فرمود رحمان ای پسر
کل یوم هو فی شان ای پسر

اندرین ره می تراش و می خراش
تا دم آخر دمی فارغ مباش

تا دم آخر دمی آخر بود
که عنایت با تو صاحب سر بود

هر چه می کوشند اگر مرد و زنست
گوش و چشم شاه جان بر روزنست

English translation

The discourse about the khwaja is very long; tell what became of the state of that good man. The khwaja, in fire and pain and longing, was saying a hundred scattered things like this: now contradiction, now coquetry, now need; now passion for Reality, now for metaphor/appearance. A drowning man struggles for his life, putting his hand toward every plant, so that perhaps one of them may take his hand in danger; he moves hand and foot from fear for his life. The Friend loves this agitation; futile striving is better than sleeping. He who is the King is not idle; lamentation from Him would be strange, for He is not sick. For this reason the All-Merciful said, O son: “Every day He is in an affair,” O son. On this path keep carving and scraping; until the last breath, do not be idle for a breath. Until the last breath there remains a last breath in which grace may be your intimate confidant. Whatever men and women strive at, the ear and eye of the King of the soul are at the window.

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