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دفتر چهارم - بخش ۶۴ - زجر مدعی از دعوی و امر کردن او را به متابعت / Book Four - Section 64 - Rebuking the Pretender for His Claim and Commanding Him to Follow

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بو مسیلم گفت خود من احمدمدین احمد را به فن برهم زدم
Musaylima said: "I myself am Ahmad —
I have overturned Ahmad's religion by cunning."
بو مسیلم را بگو کم کن بطرغرهٔ اول مشو آخر نگر
Tell Musaylima: lessen your insolence.
Do not be beguiled by the beginning; look to the end.
این قلاوزی مکن از حرص جمعپس روی کن تا رود در پیش شمع
Do not play the guide out of greed for gathering.
Follow behind, so the candle may go ahead.
شمع مقصد را نماید هم چو ماهکین طرف دانه ست یا خود دامگاه
The candle reveals the destination like the moon —
Whether on this side lies grain, or a snare.
گر بخواهی ور نخواهی با چراغدیده گردد نقش باز و نقش زاغ
Whether you wish it or not, by lamplight
The figure of the falcon and the figure of the crow become visible.
ورنه این زاغان دغل افروختندبانگ بازان سپید آموختند
Otherwise these deceitful crows have kindled a blaze —
They have learned the cry of the white falcons.
بانگ هدهد گر بیاموزد فتیراز هدهد کو و پیغام سبا
If a young man should learn the hoopoe's call,
Where is the hoopoe's secret and the message of Sheba?
بانگ بر رسته ز بر بسته بدانتاج شاهان را ز تاج هدهدان
Know the call of the free from the call of the bound;
Know the crown of kings from the crown of hoopoes.
حرف درویشان و نکتهٔ عارفانبسته اند این بی حیایان بر زبان
The words of dervishes and the subtleties of the 'ārifān —
These shameless ones have bound them upon their tongues.
هر هلاک امت پیشین که بودزانک چندل را گمان بردند عود
Every ruin that befell the earlier communities
Was because they took sandalwood for oud.
بودشان تمییز کان مظهر کندلیک حرص و آز کور و کر کند
They had the discernment that the Manifestation reveals,
But greed and avarice make one blind and deaf.
کوری کوران ز رحمت دور نیستکوری حرص است که آن معذور نیست
The blindness of the blind is not far from mercy;
The blindness of greed — that is not excusable.
چارمیخ شه ز رحمت دور نیچار میخ حاسدی مغفور نی
The king's crucifixion is not far from mercy;
The crucifixion of envy is not forgiven.
ماهیا آخر نگر بنگر بشستبدگلویی چشم آخربینت ببست
O fish, look to the end — look at the fishhook!
Greediness of the throat has shut your far-seeing eye.
با دو دیده اول و آخر ببینهین مباش اعور چو ابلیس لعین
With two eyes, see both beginning and end.
Beware — be not one-eyed like the accursed Iblis.
اعور آن باشد که حالی دید و بسچون بهایم بی خبر از بازپس
The one-eyed is he who sees only the present moment and nothing more,
Like animals, unaware of what comes after.
چون دو چشم گاو در جرم تلفهم چو یک چشمست کش نبود شرف
The two eyes of a cow, in a matter of damage,
Are like one eye — which has no distinction.
نصف قیمت ارزد آن دو چشم اوکه دو چشمش راست مسند چشم تو
Those two eyes of his are worth half the blood-price,
For his two eyes together are equal to one eye of yours.
ور کنی یک چشم آدم زاده اینصف قیمت لایقست از جاده ای
And if you put out one eye of a son of Adam,
Half the blood-price is due by the rule of law.
زانک چشم آدمی تنها به خودبی دو چشم یار کاری می کند
Because a human eye, alone by itself,
Without the two eyes of a companion, still does its work.
چشم خر چون اولش بی آخرستگر دو چشمش هست حکمش اعورست
The donkey's eye — since its beginning has no end —
Even if it has two eyes, its judgment is one-eyed.
این سخن پایان ندارد وان خفیفمی نویسد رقعه در طمع رغیف
This discourse has no end — and that frivolous one
Writes his petition in greed for a morsel of bread.

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