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دفتر پنجم - بخش ۲۳ - حکایت آن اعرابی کی سگ او از گرسنگی می‌مرد و انبان او پر نان و بر سگ نوحه می‌کرد و شعر می‌گفت و می‌گریست و سر و رو می‌زد و دریغش می‌آمد لقمه‌ای از انبان به سگ دادن / Book Five - Section 23 - The Story of that Arab whose dog was dying of hunger while his bag was full of bread, and he was mourning over the dog, reciting poetry, weeping, beating his head and face, yet begrudged giving a single morsel from his bag to the dog

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آن سگی می مرد و گریان آن عرباشک می بارید و می گفت ای کرب
A dog was dying and that Arab was weeping, shedding tears and saying, 'O what distress!'
سایلی بگذشت و گفت این گریه چیستنوحه و زاری تو از بهر کیست
A passerby passed and said, 'What is this weeping for? For whom is your mourning and lamentation?'
گفت در ملکم سگی بد نیک خونک همی میرد میان راه او
He said, 'I had a good-natured dog; look, he is now dying here on the road.
روز صیادم بد و شب پاسبانتیزچشم و صیدگیر و دزدران
By day he was my hunter, and by night my watchman; sharp-eyed, catching game, and chasing away thieves.'
گفت رنجش چیست زخمی خورده استگفت جوع الکلب زارش کرده است
He asked, 'What is his ailment? Has he been wounded?' He replied, 'Canine hunger (extreme starvation) has made him wretched.'
گفت صبری کن برین رنج و حرضصابران را فضل حق بخشد عوض
He said, 'Be patient with this suffering and affliction; God's grace grants a reward to the patient.'
بعد از آن گفتش کای سالار حرچیست اندر دستت این انبان پر
Then he asked him, 'O free leader, what is in this full bag in your hand?'
گفت نان و زاد و لوت دوش منمی کشانم بهر تقویت بدن
He replied, 'Bread, provisions, and my meal of last night, which I am carrying to nourish my body.'
گفت چون ندهی بدان سگ نان و زادگفت تا این حد ندارم مهر و داد
He asked, 'Why do you not give some of that bread and provisions to the dog?' He replied, 'I do not have love and compassion to that extent!
دست ناید بی درم در راه نانلیک هست آب دو دیده رایگان
Bread is not obtained on the road without money (dirhams), but the water of my two eyes is free.'
گفت خاکت بر سر ای پر باد مشککه لب نان پیش تو بهتر ز اشک
He said, 'Dust be upon your head, O bag full of wind! For to you, a crust of bread is better than tears.
اشک خونست و به غم آبی شدهمی نیرزد خاک خون بیهده
Tears are blood that has turned to water through grief; blood shed in vain is not worth dust.'
کل خود را خوار کرد او چون بلیسپاره این کل نباشد جز خسیس
He debased his whole self like Iblis; a part of this whole is nothing but mean.
من غلام آنک نفروشد وجودجز بدان سلطان با افضال و جود
I am the servant of him who does not sell his existence except to that King of grace and generosity.
چون بگرید آسمان گریان شودچون بنالد چرخ یا رب خوان شود
When he weeps, the sky begins to weep; when he laments, the heavens cry out 'O Lord!'
من غلام آن مس همت پرستکو به غیر کیمیا نارد شکست
I am the servant of that copper which worships high ambition, and does not yield its broken state to anything but the alchemical Elixir.
دست اشکسته برآور در دعاسوی اشکسته پرد فضل خدا
Raise your broken hand in prayer; God's grace flies toward the broken-hearted.
گر رهایی بایدت زین چاه تنگای برادر رو بر آذر بی درنگ
If you seek deliverance from this narrow well, O brother, go toward the fire without delay.
مکر حق را بین و مکر خود بهلای ز مکرش مکر مکاران خجل
Behold the divine planning of God and leave your own planning, O you by whose plans the plans of all planners are put to shame!
چونک مکرت شد فنای مکر رببرگشایی یک کمینی بوالعجب
When your planning is annihilated in the planning of the Lord, you will lay a wondrous ambush,
که کمینه آن کمین باشد بقاتا ابد اندر عروج و ارتقا
The least of which in that ambush is everlasting life, forever rising and ascending.

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