Friday, August 16, 2019

Couplet 622-626



زیں نمط زیں نوع دہ طومار و دو

Twelve such long letters of that kind and flavor

بر نوشت آں دینِ عیسیٰ را عَدو

Were written by the vizier, the enemy of the religion of Jesus



اُوز یک رنگی عیسیٰ نو نداشت

He could not have sensed the smell of oneness preached by Jesus

وز مزاجِ خمِّ عیسیٰ بُو نداشت

Neither he had the practice of pitcher of Jesus



جامہ صد رنگ ازاں خُمِّ صفا

The cloths of hundreds of colors, when put into that pitcher

سادہ و یک رنگ گشتے چوں ضیا

Used to become of one color of noor (light)



نیست یکرنگی کز و خیزد ملال

It is not of that oneness, with which one gets satiated

بل مثالِ ماہی و آب زُلال

Rather its example is that of fish and clear water



گرچہ دُر خشکی ہزاراں رنگہا ست

Although there are thousands of colors in the earth

ماہیاں را با یُبوست جنگہا ست

But the fish has revulsion towards the earth




The discussion on topic that there is differentiation in speed but not on the truth of the path

               The title of this para discusses that the truth is the single objective for all the People of Truth (اہلِ حق) and there is no difference in this regard, but the difference is merely on the way of achieving it. Like a doctor, who sends his two disciples to attend two different patients for their treatment, then there must be difference in the prescription of the two due to differences in the illness, but the ultimate objective of both is same to get the patients well. Similarly, the objectives of different prophets  is same to achieve nearness and wusool-Allah, but there may be difference in the paths taken by them. Thus in the following discussion, the stupidity of the Jews vizier has been mentioned as he is putting the religion of Jesus against that of Moses and could not be able to see the same objective of both i.e. one-ness (وحدت). In the couplets it states that this vizier could not comprehend the single colour of Jesus, which is matching with that of Moses, and he was also not able to comprehend effects of the internal (باطنی) pot of Jesus. Otherwise he could have understood that Jesus was not making people against Moses, but calling all of them to the same single objective, which was there in the teachings of both Jesus and Moses. As Maulana states that the effect of the pot of Jesus was that clothes of hundreds of colours, if put into it, are coloured into a single colour i.e. the people of different beliefs became pure and single-coloured (in tauheed (توحید) and became capable for wusool-allah) like the single-coloured nature of light.

               It has been seen and understood by senses that holding on to a single condition or a single thing leads to monotonousness and people are usually fed off it, which is known as ‘malaal’(ملال) in Arabic.  Therefore it was possible for some common person to have doubt that the internal single-colouredness may also be the same. In order to remove, he states that this is not that kind of single-colouredness, which causes boredom. In order to remove this doubt, he states that it is not that single coloredness, which causes boredom, rather it has example like fish and sweet water. The fish do not become bored from sweet water, even though the sweet water does not have different conditions/ colors. Though the dryness of land may have different thousands of colours and conditions, but the fish have revulsion against and abhorrence to the land. Similarly, People of Tauheed (اہلِ توحید) and People of Knowledge (معرفہ) (which are termed as fish in such examples) with respect to their relation with Allah (which are termed as river/ sea in similitude)  are never satiated  and chance of boredom can never occur. The reason for no chance of boredom is that it happens when the desire of one for another is saturated  and this is saturated where the perfection (کمالات) of the beloved is saturated/ finished or the desire of the seeker is satiated. And when neither the desire of a Gnostic never sates nor the perfection of the Beloved can never finish, then there is no chances of ending of desire and instead it is increasing every now and then. Then how can boredom be happened.

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