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دفتر پنجم - بخش ۱۴۸ - حکایت مات کردن دلقک سید شاه ترمد را / Book Five - Section 148 - The Tale of the Jester Checkmating the Sayyid, King of Tirmidh

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شاه با دلقک همی شطرنج باختمات کردش زود خشم شه بتاخت
The King was playing chess with the jester;
He checkmated him quickly, and the King's wrath flared up.
گفت شه شه و آن شه کبرآورشیک یک از شطرنج می زد بر سرش
The King cried, 'Check! Check!' and in his pride,
He struck the jester's head with the chess pieces one by one,
که بگیر اینک شهت ای قلتبانصبر کرد آن دلقک و گفت الامان
Crying, 'Take this, here is your King, O scoundrel!'
The jester was patient and cried, 'Mercy!'
دست دیگر باختن فرمود میراو چنان لرزان که عور از زمهریر
The prince ordered another game to be played;
The jester was trembling like a naked person in severe winter cold.
باخت دست دیگر و شه مات شدوقت شه شه گفتن و میقات شد
He played the other game, and the King was checkmated;
The time and appointed hour for saying 'Checkmate!' arrived.
بر جهید آن دلقک و در کنج رفتشش نمد بر خود فکند از بیم تفت
The jester leaped up and ran to a corner;
He threw six felt rugs over himself out of intense fear.
زیر بالشها و زیر شش نمدخفت پنهان تا ز زخم شه رهد
Under the pillows and under the six felt rugs,
He lay hidden so that he might escape the King's blows.
گفت شه هی هی چه کردی چیست اینگفت شه شه شه شه ای شاه گزین
The King said, 'Hey, hey! What have you done? What is this?'
He replied, 'Check! Check! Checkmate, O choice King!
کی توان حق گفت جز زیر لحافبا تو ای خشم آور آتش سجاف
How can one speak the truth except from under the quilt,
With you, O wrathful one with a fiery border?
ای تو مات و من ز زخم شاه ماتمی زنم شه شه به زیر رختهات
You are checkmated, and I am checkmated by the King's blows;
I cry 'Checkmate!' from beneath your rugs.'
چون محله پر شد از هیهای میروز لگد بر در زدن وز دار و گیر
When the neighborhood was filled with the shouting of the prince,
And the kicking of doors, and the uproar,
خلق بیرون جست زود از چپ و راستکای مقدم وقت عفوست و رضاست
The people rushed out quickly from left and right,
Crying, 'O leader, it is the time for forgiveness and reconciliation!
مغز او خشکست و عقلش این زمانکمترست از عقل و فهم کودکان
His brain is dry, and his intellect at this time
Is less than the intellect and understanding of children.
زهد و پیری ضعف بر ضعف آمدهواندر آن زهدش گشادی ناشده
Asceticism and old age have brought weakness upon weakness,
And in that asceticism of his, no spiritual opening has occurred.
رنج دیده گنج نادیده ز یارکارها کرده ندیده مزد کار
He has suffered pain but has seen no treasure from the Beloved;
He has done deeds but has seen no wage for his work.
یا نبود آن کار او را خود گهریا نیامد وقت پاداش از قدر
Either his work itself lacked essence,
Or the time for reward has not yet come from Destiny,
یا که بود آن سعی چون سعی جهودیا جزا وابسته میقات بود
Or his effort was like the effort of the Jew,
Or the reward was dependent on an appointed time.
مر ورا درد و مصیبت این بس استکه درین وادی پر خون بی کس است
This pain and calamity is enough for him:
That he is alone in this valley of blood.
چشم پر درد و نشسته او به کنجرو ترش کرده فرو افکنده لنج
His eyes full of pain, sitting in a corner,
Making a sour face and hanging his lip.
نه یکی کحال کو را غم خوردنیش عقلی که به کحلی پی برد
There is no oculist to care for him,
Nor any prick of intellect to guide him to collyrium (cure).
اجتهادی می کند با حزر و ظنکار در بوکست تا نیکو شدن
He strives with estimation and conjecture;
His affair is in 'perhaps' and 'may-be' until it becomes well.
زان رهش دورست تا دیدار دوستکو نجوید سر رییسیش آرزوست
For this reason, his path is far from the vision of the Friend:
Because he does not seek the secret, but desires leadership.
ساعتی او با خدا اندر عتابکه نصیبم رنج آمد زین حساب
For an hour he is in dispute with God,
Saying, 'My portion from this reckoning has been only pain.'
ساعتی با بخت خود اندر جدالکه همه پران و ما ببریده بال
For another hour he is in conflict with his own fortune,
Saying, 'All others are flying, while I am clipped-winged.'
هر که محبوس است اندر بو و رنگگرچه در زهدست باشد خوش تنگ
Whoever is imprisoned in scent and color,
Even though he be in asceticism, his heart is narrow.
تا برون ناید ازین ننگین مناخکی شود خویش خوش و صدرش فراخ
Until he emerges from this shameful resting-place,
How can his self be happy and his breast spacious?
زاهدان را در خلا پیش از گشادکارد و استره نشاید هیچ داد
Before spiritual opening, one should not give
A knife or a razor to ascetics in seclusion,
کز ضجر خود را بدراند شکمغصه آن بی مرادیها و غم
Lest out of distress they rip open their own belly,
From the grief and sorrow of those unfulfilled desires.

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