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1926-1975

  • در مقامی مسکنی کم ساختی ** کم دو روز اندر دهی انداختی
  • He would not make his abode in any one place, he would not spend two days in a village.
  • گفت در یک خانه گر باشم دو روز ** عشق آن مسکن کند در من فروز
  • He said, “If I stay two days in one house, love of that dwelling-place is kindled in me.
  • غرة المسکن احاذره انا ** انقلی یا نفس سیری للغنا
  • I am afraid of being beguiled by the dwelling-place: migrate, O my soul, and travel to independence.
  • لا اعود خلق قلبی بالمکان ** کی یکون خالصا فی الامتحان
  • I will not accustom my heart's nature to locality, (and I do this) in order that it may be pure in the (hour of) trial.”
  • روز اندر سیر بد شب در نماز ** چشم اندر شاه باز او همچو باز 1930
  • During the day he was (engaged) in travel, during the night in ritual prayer: his eye (was) open on the King, and he (himself was) like the falcon.
  • منقطع از خلق نه از بد خوی ** منفرد از مرد و زن نه از دوی
  • (He was) severed from the creatures (of God), (but) not on account of ill nature; isolated from man and woman, (but) not because of dualism.
  • مشفقی خلق و نافع همچو آب ** خوش شفعیی و دعااش مستجاب
  • A compassionate man to the creatures and beneficial (to them) as water; a goodly intercessor, and his prayers were answered.
  • نیک و بد را مهربان و مستقر ** بهتر از مادر شهی‌تر از پدر
  • (He was) kind to the good and the bad, and a sure refuge (for them); (he was) better than a mother, dearer than a father.
  • گفت پیغامبر شما را ای مهان ** چون پدر هستم شفیق و مهربان
  • The Prophet said, “O sirs, to you I am compassionate and kind as a father,
  • زان سبب که جمله اجزای منید ** جزو را از کل چرا بر می‌کنید 1935
  • Because ye all are parts of me.” Why (then) will ye tear the part away from the whole?
  • جزو از کل قطع شد بی کار شد ** عضو از تن قطع شد مردار شد
  • (When) the part is severed from the whole, it becomes useless; (when) the limb is severed from the body, it becomes carrion.
  • تا نپیوندد بکل بار دگر ** مرده باشد نبودش از جان خبر
  • Till it is joined once more to the whole, it is dead: it has no consciousness of life;
  • ور بجنبد نیست آن را خود سند ** عضو نو ببریده هم جنبش کند
  • And if it move, yet it has no support: the newly severed limb also moves.
  • جزو ازین کل گر برد یکسو رود ** این نه آن کلست کو ناقص شود
  • If the part be severed and fall asunder from this (spiritual) whole, this is not the (kind of) whole that is liable to defect.
  • قطع و وصل او نیاید در مقال ** چیز ناقص گفته شد بهر مثال 1940
  • Separation from it and conjunction with it are not (really) predicable; the defective thing has been mentioned (only) for the sake of comparison.
  • بازگشتن به قصه‌ی دقوقی
  • Return to the story of Daqúqí.
  • مر علی را در مثالی شیر خواند ** شیر مثل او نباشد گرچه راند
  • He (the Prophet) once compared ‘Alí to a lion, (but) the lion is not like him, though he (the Prophet) used (this expression).
  • از مثال و مثل و فرق آن بران ** جانب قصه‌ی دقوقی ای جوان
  • From comparison (mithál) and likeness (mithl) and the difference between those (terms) push on, O youth, towards the story of Daqúqí:
  • آنک در فتوی امام خلق بود ** گوی تقوی از فرشته می‌ربود
  • That one who in giving legal judgements was the Imám of the people and in piety bore away the ball from the angels;
  • آنک اندر سیر مه را مات کرد ** هم ز دین‌داری او دین رشک خورد
  • That one who checkmated (eclipsed) the moon in wayfaring, while the Religion (itself) was jealous of his religiousness.
  • با چنین تقوی و اوراد و قیام ** طالب خاصان حق بودی مدام 1945
  • Notwithstanding such piety and devotions and (nights passed in) performance of the ritual prayer, he was always seeking the elect (the saints) of God.
  • در سفر معظم مرادش آن بدی ** که دمی بر بنده‌ی خاصی زدی
  • In travel his chief object was that he might come in touch for a moment with an elect servant (of God).
  • این همی‌گفتی چو می‌رفتی براه ** کن قرین خاصگانم ای اله
  • Whilst he was going along the road, he would be saying, “O God, make me a companion of the elect.
  • یا رب آنها راکه بشناسد دلم ** بنده و بسته‌میان ومجملم
  • O Lord, to those (saints) whom my heart knows I am a slave and one who has girt his loins and is ready to do (them) good service;
  • و آنک نشناسم تو ای یزدان جان ** بر من محجوبشان کن مهربان
  • And (as for) those whom I know not, do Thou, O God of the soul, make them kindly disposed to me who am debarred (from knowing them).”
  • حضرتش گفتی که ای صدر مهین ** این چه عشقست و چه استسقاست این 1950
  • The Lord would say to him, “O most noble prince, what passion is this and what unquenchable thirst is this?
  • مهر من داری چه می‌جویی دگر ** چون خدا با تست چون جویی بشر
  • Thou hast My love: why art thou seeking other (than Mine)? When God is with thee, how dost thou seek man?”
  • او بگفتی یا رب ای دانای راز ** تو گشودی در دلم راه نیاز
  • He would answer, “O Lord, O Knower of the secret, Thou hast opened in my heart the way of supplication.
  • درمیان بحر اگر بنشسته‌ام ** طمع در آب سبو هم بسته‌ام
  • If I am seated in the midst of the Sea, yet have I set my desire on the water in the jug.
  • همچو داودم نود نعجه مراست ** طمع در نعجه‌ی حریفم هم بخاست
  • I am like David: I have ninety ewes, and yet desire for my rival's ewe hath arisen in me.
  • حرص اندر عشق تو فخرست و جاه ** حرص اندر غیر تو ننگ و تباه 1955
  • Greed for Thy love is glorious and grand; greed for (the love of) any besides Thee is shameful and corrupt.”
  • شهوت و حرص نران بیشی بود ** و آن حیزان ننگ و بدکیشی بود
  • The lust and greed of the manly is advancement (in the spiritual Way), while that of the effeminate is disgrace and irreligion.
  • حرص مردان از ره پیشی بود ** در مخنث حرص سوی پس رود
  • The greed of (true) men is by the forward way, (but) greed in the effeminate goes backward.
  • آن یکی حرص از کمال مردی است ** و آن دگر حرص افتضاح و سردی است
  • The one greed belongs to the perfection of manliness, while the other greed is (a cause of) opprobrium and disgust.
  • آه سری هست اینجا بس نهان ** که سوی خضری شود موسی روان
  • Ah, there is a very occult mystery here (in the fact) that Moses sets out to go towards a Khizr.
  • همچو مستسقی کز آبش سیر نیست ** بر هر آنچ یافتی بالله مه‌ایست 1960
  • By God, do not tarry in anything (any spiritual position) that thou hast gained, (but crave more) like one suffering from dropsy who is never sated with water.
  • بی نهایت حضرتست این بارگاه ** صدر را بگذار صدر تست راه
  • This (Divine) court is the Infinite Plane. Leave the seat of honour behind: the Way is thy seat of honour.
  • سر طلب کردن موسی خضر را علیهماالسلام با کمال نبوت و قربت
  • The mystery of Moses seeking Khizr, notwithstanding his perfection as a prophet and as one nigh unto God.
  • از کلیم حق بیاموز ای کریم ** بین چه می‌گوید ز مشتاقی کلیم
  • Learn from him with whom God spake, O noble sir! See what Kalím (Moses) says in his longing!
  • با چنین جاه و چنین پیغامبری ** طالب خضرم ز خودبینی بری
  • “Notwithstanding such a dignity and such a prophetic office (as I possess), I am a seeker of Khizr, (I am) quit of self-regard.”
  • موسیا تو قوم خود را هشته‌ای ** در پی نیکوپیی سرگشته‌ای
  • (They said), “O Moses, thou hast forsaken thy people; thou hast wandered distraught in search of a blessed man.
  • کیقبادی رسته از خوف و رجا ** چند گردی چند جویی تا کجا 1965
  • Thou art an emperor delivered from fear and hope: how long wilt thou wander? How long wilt thou seek? To what bound?
  • آن تو با تست و تو واقف برین ** آسمانا چند پیمایی زمین
  • (He that is) thine is with thee, and thou art conscious of this. O (thou who art exalted as the) sky, how long wilt thou traverse the (low) earth?”
  • گفت موسی این ملامت کم کنید ** آفتاب و ماه را کم ره زنید
  • Moses said, “Do not make this reproach (against me), do not waylay the Sun and the Moon.
  • می‌روم تا مجمع البحرین من ** تا شوم مصحوب سلطان زمن
  • I will fare as far as the meeting-place of the two seas, that (afterwards) I may be accompanied by the Sovereign of the time.
  • اجعل الخضر لامری سببا ** ذاک او امضی و اسری حقبا
  • I will make Khizr a means to (the achievement of) my purpose: (either) that, or I will go onward and journey by night a long while.
  • سالها پرم بپر و بالها ** سالها چه بود هزاران سالها 1970
  • I will fly with wings and pinions for years: what are years? For thousands of years.”
  • می‌روم یعنی نمی‌ارزد بدان ** عشق جانان کم مدان از عشق نان
  • (He said) “I will fare,” meaning, “Is it not worth that (toilsome journey)? Do not deem the passion for the Beloved to be less than the passion for bread (worldly goods).”
  • این سخن پایان ندارد ای عمو ** داستان آن دقوقی را بگو
  • This discourse hath no end, O uncle. (Now) tell the story of Daqúqí.
  • بازگشتن به قصه‌ی دقوقی
  • Resuming the story of Daqúqí.
  • آن دقوقی رحمة الله علیه ** گفت سافرت مدی فی خافقیه
  • That Daqúqí, God have mercy on him, said: “I travelled a long time between His two horizons.
  • سال و مه رفتم سفر از عشق ماه ** بی‌خبر از راه حیران در اله
  • Years and months I went on my journey for love of the Moon, unconscious of the way, lost in God.”
  • پا برهنه می‌روی بر خار و سنگ ** گفت من حیرانم و بی خویش و دنگ 1975
  • (Some one asked him), “(Why) dost thou go bare-foot over thorns and stones?” He said, “I am bewildered and beside myself and crazed.”