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دفتر چهارم - بخش ۷۴ - رقعهٔ دیگر نوشتن آن غلام پیش شاه چون جواب آن رقعهٔ اوّل نیافت / Book Four - Section 74 - That Slave Writing Another Letter to the King Because He Did Not Receive a Reply to the First Letter

متن و ترجمه / Text and Translation

نامهٔ دیگر نوشت آن بدگمانپر ز تشنیع و نفیر و پر فغان
That suspicious one wrote another letter,
Full of reproach, lamentation, and outcry,
که یکی رقعه نبشتم پیش شهای عجب آنجا رسید و یافت ره
Saying, "I wrote a letter to the king,
How strange, did it reach there and find its way?
آن دگر را خواند هم آن خوب خدهم نداد او را جواب و تن بزد
That fair-cheeked one read the other [letter] too,
Yet gave him no reply and remained silent."
خشک می آورد او را شهریاراو مکرر کرد رقعه پنج بار
The monarch was keeping him in suspense,
He repeated the letter five times.
گفت حاجب آخر او بندهٔ شماستگر جوابش بر نویسی هم رواست
The chamberlain said, "After all, he is your slave;
If you write a reply to him, it is proper too.
از شهی تو چه کم گردد اگربرغلام و بنده اندازی نظر
What decreases from your kingship if
You cast a glance upon a slave and servant?"
گفت این سهلست اما احمقستمرد احمق زشت و مردود حقست
He said, "This is easy, but he is a fool;
The foolish man is ugly and rejected by God.
گرچه آمرزم گناه و زلتشهم کند بر من سرایت علتش
Although I forgive his sin and slip,
His malady will infect me as well.
صد کس از گرگین همه گرگین شوندخاصه این گر خبیث ناپسند
A hundred persons from a mangy one will all become mangy,
Especially this foul, unpleasing mange.
گر کم عقلی مبادا گبر راشوم او بی آب دارد ابر را
May there not be a lack of intellect even in a fire-worshipper;
His ill-omen keeps the cloud without water.
نم نبارد ابر از شومی اوشهر شد ویرانه از بومی او
The cloud does not rain moisture due to his ill-omen,
The city became ruined due to his ill-luck.
از گر آن احمقان طوفان نوحکرد ویران عالمی را در فضوح
From the mange of those fools, the flood of Noah
Ruined a world in disgrace.
گفت پیغامبر که احمق هر که هستاو عدو ماست و غول ره زنست
The Prophet said, 'Whoever is a fool,
He is our enemy and a ghoul that waylays.
هر که او عاقل بود از جان ماستروح او و ریح او ریحان ماست
Whoever is wise is of our soul;
His spirit and his breeze are our sweet basil.
عقل دشنامم دهد من راضیمزانک فیضی دارد از فیاضیم
If intellect curses me, I am content,
Because it has an emanation from my abundant bounty.
نبود آن دشنام او بی فایدهنبود آن مهمانیش بی مایده
His curse is not without benefit;
His feast is not without a table of food.
احمق ار حلوا نهد اندر لبممن از آن حلوای او اندر تبم
If the fool puts sweetmeat on my lips,
I am in a fever from his sweetmeat.'
این یقین دان گر لطیف و روشنینیست بوسهٔ کون خر را چاشنی
Know this for certain, if you are refined and bright,
There is no taste in kissing a donkey's rear.
سبلتت گنده کند بی فایدهجامه از دیگش سیه بی مایده
It makes your mustache stink without benefit;
The garment is blackened by his pot without food.
مایده عقلست نی نان و شوینور عقلست ای پسر جان را غذی
The table of food is intellect, not bread and roasted meat;
The light of intellect, O son, is the nourishment of the soul.
نیست غیر نور آدم را خورشاز جز آن جان نیابد پرورش
There is no food for man other than light;
From anything else, the soul finds no nourishment.
زین خورش ها اندک اندک باز برکین غذای خر بود نه آن حر
Withdraw gradually from these foods,
For this is the food of an ass, not of a free man.
تا غذای اصل را قابل شویلقمه های نور را آکل شوی
So that you may become capable of the original food,
And become an eater of the morsels of light.
عکس آن نورست کین نان نان شدستفیض آن جانست کین جان جان شدست
It is the reflection of that light that this bread has become bread;
It is the overflow of that soul that this soul has become soul.
چون خوری یکبار از ماکول نورخاک ریزی بر سر نان و تنور
When you eat once of the food of light,
You will pour dust on the head of bread and oven.
عقل دو عقلست اول مکسبیکه در آموزی چو در مکتب صبی
Intellect is two intellects: the first is acquired,
Which you learn like a child in school,
از کتاب و اوستاد و فکر و ذکراز معانی وز علوم خوب و بکر
From book and teacher and reflection and recitation,
From concepts and from excellent and pristine sciences.
عقل تو افزون شود بر دیگرانلیک تو باشی ز حفظ آن گران
Your intellect becomes greater than others,
But you are burdened by preserving it.
لوح حافظ باشی اندر دور و گشتلوح محفوظ اوست کو زین در گذشت
You are a memorizing tablet in wandering and turning;
The Preserved Tablet is he who has passed beyond this.
عقل دیگر بخشش یزدان بودچشمهٔ آن در میان جان بود
The other intellect is the gift of God;
Its fountain is in the midst of the soul.
چون ز سینه آب دانش جوش کردنه شود گنده نه دیرینه نه زرد
When the water of knowledge boils forth from the breast,
It becomes neither fetid nor old nor yellow.
ور ره نبعش بود بسته چه غمکو همی جوشد ز خانه دم به دم
And if the path of its gushing is blocked, what sorrow?
For it boils continuously from within the house.
عقل تحصیلی مثال جویهاکان رود در خانه ای از کویها
The acquired intellect is like streams,
That flow into a house from the streets.
راه آبش بسته شد شد بی نوااز درون خویشتن جو چشمه را
If its waterway is blocked, it becomes destitute;
Seek the fountain from within yourself."

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