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بخش ۱۵۵ - استدعاء آن مرد از موسی زبان بهایم با طیور

That man's request from Moses for the language of animals and birds

  1. M3:3266 گفت موسی را یکی مرد جوانکه بیاموزم زبان جانوران A young man came to Moses and declared,“Teach me the tongue that all the creatures share.”In this story, a young man asks the prophet Moses to grant him the supernatural ability to understand the language of animals.
  2. M3:3267 تا بود کز بانگ حیوانات و ددعبرتی حاصل کنم در دین خود So that from the cries of animals and beastsI might gain a lesson for my own faith.The young man tells Moses he wants to learn the language of animals to find spiritual lessons in their sounds, which he believes will be purer than human speech.
  3. M3:3268 چون زبان‌های بنی‌آدم همهدر پی آبست و نان و دمدمه Since all the tongues of humankind are spentchasing after water, bread, and empty talk,The young man argues that human speech is entirely consumed by worldly concerns like sustenance and trivial chatter, implying that animal language might be more spiritually profound.
  4. M3:3269 بوک حیوانات را دردی دگرباشد از تدبیر هنگام گذر Perhaps the animals have a different kind of pain,stemming from their concerns as they pass through life.The man hopes that animals, unlike humans, are preoccupied with a nobler, more spiritual kind of suffering than the mere worldly anxieties of planning for survival.
  5. M3:3270 گفت موسی رو گذر کن زین هوسکاین خطر دارد بسی در پیش و پس Moses said, “Go, turn away from this obsession,for it holds great danger, in origin and conclusion.”The prophet Moses warns the man that his desire to know the language of animals is a dangerous whim that will lead to harm both now and in the future.
  6. M3:3271 عبرت و بیداری از یزدان طلبنه از کتاب و از مقال و حرف و لب Seek your lesson, your awakening, from God alone,not from books, nor from speech, nor from letters and lips.In this couplet, Moses advises a man that true spiritual insight and awakening are gifts received directly from God, not knowledge that can be acquired through external sources like texts or the speech of others—even the speech of animals.
  7. M3:3272 گرم‌تر شد مرد زان منعش که کردگرم‌تر گردد همی از منع مرد The man grew more inflamed by the prophet’s warning;from prohibition, a man’s desire is always burning.When Moses forbade the man from seeking the language of animals, it only made him more determined, because human nature is such that it craves what is forbidden.
  8. M3:3273 گفت ای موسی چو نور تو بتافتهر‌چه چیزی بود چیزی از تو یافت He said, “O Moses, since your light has shone,every single thing has gained something from you.The man flatters Moses, arguing that since Moses's prophetic light benefits all of creation, he too should receive the specific gift he desires and not be left out.
  9. M3:3274 مر مرا محروم کردن زین مرادلایق لطفت نباشد ای جواد To keep me from this wish, my heart's desire,Would not befit your grace, O Generous Sire.The man tells Moses that to deny him his request would be inconsistent with Moses's famously generous and gracious character.
  10. M3:3275 این زمان قایم مقام حق توییاس باشد گر مرا مانع شوی Right now, you stand in the place of God Himself;To be refused by you would be despair.The man tells Moses that since Moses is God's representative on earth, being denied this wish by him would feel like being rejected by God, causing utter despair.
  11. M3:3276 گفت موسی یا رب این مرد سلیمسخره کردستش مگر دیو رجیم Moses said, “O Lord, this simple-hearted man—Has the accursed devil made a fool of him?”Seeing the man's stubborn insistence on a dangerous wish, Moses turns to God and asks if this seemingly good man has been deceived by Satan.
  12. M3:3277 گر بیاموزم زیان کارش بودور نیاموزم دلش بد می‌شود If I teach him, it will be to his ruin;if I do not, his heart will turn against me.Moses finds himself in a dilemma: teaching the man the language of animals will harm him, but refusing his insistent plea will make the man bitter and resentful.
  13. M3:3278 گفت ای موسی بیاموزش که مارد نکردیم از کرم هرگز دعا God said, “O Moses, teach it to him, for Wehave never, out of Grace, turned back a plea.”In this couplet, God commands Moses to grant the man's persistent request, stating that Divine Grace does not refuse a sincere prayer, even if the outcome may be harmful to the supplicant.
  14. M3:3279 گفت یا رب او پشیمانی خورددست خاید‌، جامه‌ها را بَر‌درَد He said, “O Lord, he will be consumed by regret,he will bite his hand and tear his clothes to shreds.”Moses protests to God, predicting that if this man gets what he wants, he will suffer such catastrophic regret that he will tear his clothes and bite his hands in despair.
  15. M3:3280 نیست قدرت هر کسی را سازوارعجز بهتر مایهٔ پرهیزکار Power is not suited to every person;helplessness is a better capital for the pious.Not everyone is equipped to handle power or special knowledge; for a person of faith, a sense of their own limitation and dependency is a much safer and more valuable asset.
  16. M3:3281 فقر ازین رو فخر آمد جاودانکه به تقوی ماند دست نارسان For this reason poverty became an eternal source of pride:because the hand that cannot reach remains within piety's guide.Spiritual poverty is a virtue because powerlessness and need keep a person God-conscious and safe from the temptations that come with power.
  17. M3:3282 زان غنا و زان غنی مردود شدکه ز قدرت صبرها بدرود شد From that wealth, from that affluence, he became an outcast,for with power, all patience was bid farewell and passed.The kind of wealth and power that destroys a person's patience is precisely what leads to their spiritual rejection.
  18. M3:3283 آدمی را عجز و فقر آمد اماناز بلای نفس پر حرص و غمان For humankind, powerlessness and poverty are a sanctuaryfrom the calamity of a soul filled with greed and its anxieties.Human limitations and material want serve as a crucial defense, protecting people from the destructive disasters caused by their own greedy and insatiable ego.
  19. M3:3284 آن غم آمد ز آرزوهای فضولکه بدان خو کرده است آن صید غول That sorrow comes from meddlesome desires,to which the ghoul's own prey has grown accustomed.This man's suffering arises from his obsessive and unnecessary desires, habits that have made him captive to demonic, soul-destroying forces.
  20. M3:3285 آرزوی گِل بود گِل‌خواره راگُل‌شکر نگوارد آن بیچاره را The clay-eater craves only clay;rose-petal jam will not agree with that poor wretch.A person whose nature is accustomed to base desires cannot digest or appreciate refined spiritual gifts.
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