حکمت 443: مالک! چه مالکی؟ به خدا اگر کوه بود، کوهی… · Saying 443

وَ قَالَ (عليه السلام): وَ قَدْ جَاءَهُ نَعْيُ الْأَشْتَرِ رَحِمَهُ اللَّهُ:

مَالِكٌ وَ مَا مَالِكٌ وَ اللَّهِ لَوْ كَانَ جَبَلًا لَكَانَ فِنْداً وَ لَوْ كَانَ حَجَراً لَكَانَ صَلْداً لَا يَرْتَقِيهِ الْحَافِرُ وَ لَا يُوفِي عَلَيْهِ الطَّائِرُ.

قال الرضي: و الفند المنفرد من الجبال.

When the news of the death of(Malik) al-Ashtar (may Allah have mercy on him), reached Amir al-Mu'minin, peace be upon him, he said: Malik, what a man Malik was! By Allah, if he had been a mountain he would have been a big one (find) and if he had been a stone he would have been hard; no horseman could have reached it and no bird could have flown over it. Al-Sayyid al-Radi says: "find" means a lonely mountain (rising in height above the range).