The Vizier Leaves His Disciples Hopeless
From Rumi’s Masnavi (مثنوی معنوی), Book 1, section 30 of 171: How the vizier made the disciples lose hope of his abandoning seclusion (نومید کردن وزیر مریدان را از رفض خلوت). Below, each of its 14 couplets is given in Persian, followed by R. A. Nicholson’s English translation.
How the vizier made the disciples lose hope of his abandoning seclusion نومید کردن وزیر مریدان را از رفض خلوت
آن وزیر از اندرون آواز داد
کای مریدان از من این معلوم باد
The vizier cried out from within, “O disciples, be this made known to you from me,
که مرا عیسی چنین پیغام کرد
کز همه یاران و خویشان باش فرد
That Jesus hath given me a such-like message: ‘Be separated from all friends and kinsfolk.
روی در دیوار کن تنها نشین
وز وجود خویش هم خلوت گزین
Set thy face to the wall, sit alone, and choose to be secluded even from thine own existence.’
بعد از این دستوری گفتار نیست
بعد از این با گفت و گویم کار نیست
After this there is no permission (for me) to speak; after this I have nothing to do with talk.
الوداع ای دوستان من مرده‌‌ام
رخت بر چارم فلک بر برده‌‌ام
Farewell, O friends! I am dead: I have carried my belongings up to the Fourth Heaven,
تا به زیر چرخ ناری چون حطب
من نسوزم در عنا و در عطب
In order that beneath the fiery sphere I may not burn like firewood in woe and perdition,
پهلوی عیسی نشینم بعد از این
بر فراز آسمان چارمین
(But) henceforth may sit beside Jesus at the top of the Fourth Heaven.”
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