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دفتر چهارم - بخش ۴۳ - مثل قانع شدن آدمی به دنیا و حرص او در طلب دنیا و غفلت او از دولت روحانیان کی ابنای جنس وی‌اند و نعره‌زنان کی یا لَیْتَ قَوْمي یَعْلَمونَ / Book Four - Section 43 - The Parable of the Human Being's Contentment with the World and His Greed in Seeking the World and His Heedlessness of the Wealth of the Spiritual Ones Who Are His Kindred, Who Cry Out: 'Would That My People Knew!'

متن و ترجمه / Text and Translation

آن سگی در کو گدای کور دیدحمله می آورد و دلقش می درید
That dog saw a blind beggar in the street;
it rushed at him and was tearing his patched cloak.
گفته ایم این را ولی باری دگرشد مکرر بهر تاکید خبر
We have told this story before, but once again
it is repeated for the sake of emphasizing the message.
کور گفتش آخر آن یاران توبر کهند این دم شکاری صیدجو
The blind man said to it: 'After all, those companions of yours
are on the mountain at this very moment, hunting and seeking prey.
قوم تو در کوه می گیرند گوردر میان کوی می گیری تو کور
Your kind are catching wild asses in the mountains,
while you are catching a blind man in the middle of the street!'
ترک این تزویر گو شیخ نفورآب شوری جمع کرده چند کور
Bid the repelling sheikh abandon this deceit—
the one who has gathered a few blind followers around salty water,
کین مریدان من و من آب شورمی خورند از من همی گردند کور
Saying: 'These are my disciples and I am their salty water.
They drink from me and continually become blinder.'
آب خود شیرین کن از بحر لدنآب بد را دام این کوران مکن
Make your own water sweet from the ocean of divine knowledge;
do not make bad water a trap for these blind ones.
خیز شیران خدا بین گورگیرتو چو سگ چونی بزرقی کورگیر
Arise and behold the lions of God, who capture the wild ass;
how is it that you, like a dog, are capturing the blind through trickery?
گور چه از صید غیر دوست دورجمله شیر و شیرگیر و مست نور
What wild ass? They are far from hunting anything other than the Beloved;
they are all lions, lion-capturers, and intoxicated with Light.
در نظاره صید و صیادی شهکرده ترک صید و مرده در وله
In beholding the hunting and the hunters of the King,
they have abandoned the hunt and died in ecstatic bewilderment.
هم چو مرغ مرده شان بگرفته یارتا کند او جنس ایشان را شکار
The Beloved has taken them up like a dead bird,
so that He may hunt their kindred through them.
مرغ مرده مضطر اندر وصل و بینخوانده ای القلب بین اصبعین
The dead bird is compelled in union and separation;
have you not read: 'The heart is between two fingers' [of the Merciful]?
مرغ مرده ش را هر آنک شد شکارچون ببیند شد شکار شهریار
Whoever becomes the prey of His dead bird,
when they look, they find they have become the prey of the King.
هر که او زین مرغ مرده سر بتافتدست آن صیاد را هرگز نیافت
Whoever turned their head away from this dead bird
never found the hand of that Hunter.
گوید او منگر به مرداری منعشق شه بین در نگهداری من
It says: 'Do not look at my dead state;
look at the King's love in keeping and preserving me.'
من نه مردارم مرا شه کشته استصورت من شبه مرده گشته است
I am not a carcass; the King has slain me;
my outward form has merely become like a dead thing.
جنبشم زین پیش بود از بال و پرجنبشم اکنون ز دست دادگر
My movement before this was from wing and feather;
my movement now is from the hand of the Just Judge.
جنبش فانیم بیرون شد ز پوستجنبشم باقیست اکنون چون ازوست
My mortal movement has shed its skin;
my remaining movement is eternal now, since it is from Him.
هر که کژ جنبد به پیش جنبشمگرچه سیمرغست زارش می کشم
Whoever moves crookedly before my movement,
even if he be the Simurgh, I will slay him miserably.
هین مرا مرده مبین گر زنده ایدر کف شاهم نگر گر بنده ای
Lo, do not see me as dead if you are alive;
look at me in the hand of the King if you are a servant.
مرده زنده کرد عیسی از کرممن به کف خالق عیسی درم
Jesus revived the dead out of his grace;
I am in the hand of the Creator of Jesus.
کی بمانم مرده در قبضهٔ خدابر کف عیسی مدار این هم روا
How should I remain dead in the grasp of God?
Do not hold this to be fitting even on the hand of Jesus.
عیسی ام لیکن هر آنکو یافت جاناز دم من او بماند جاودان
I am Jesus, but whoever received life from my breath
remains eternal.
شد ز عیسی زنده لیکن باز مردشاد آنکو جان بدین عیسی سپرد
He became alive through Jesus but died again;
happy is the one who surrendered his soul to this Jesus!
من عصاام در کف موسی خویشموسیم پنهان و من پیدا به پیش
I am the rod in the hand of my Moses;
my Moses is hidden, and I am manifest in front.
بر مسلمانان پل دریا شومباز بر فرعون اژدها شوم
For Muslims I become a bridge across the sea;
but for Pharaoh I become a dragon.
این عصا را ای پسر تنها مبینکه عصا بی کف حق نبود چنین
O youth, do not look at this rod alone,
for the rod without the hand of the Truth would not be like this.
موج طوفان هم عصا بد کو ز دردطنطنهٔ جادوپرستان را بخورد
The wave of the Flood was also a rod which,
out of pain, devoured the pomp of the idol-worshipping sorcerers.
گر عصاهای خدا را بشمرمزرق این فرعونیان را بر درم
If I were to count the rods of God,
I would tear asunder the deception of these Pharaohs.
لیک زین شیرین گیای زهرمندترک کن تا چند روزی می چرند
But let them be; leave them to graze
on this sweet, poisonous grass for a few days.
گر نباشد جاه فرعون و سریاز کجا یابد جهنم پروری
If there were no pomp and leadership of Pharaoh,
from where would Hell obtain those nurtured for it?
فربهش کن آنگهش کش ای قصابزانک بی برگ اند در دوزخ کلاب
Fatten him, and then slaughter him, O butcher!
For the dogs in Hell are without provisions.
گر نبودی خصم و دشمن در جهانپس بمردی خشم اندر مردمان
If there were no adversary and enemy in the world,
then anger would die out among humans.
دوزخ آن خشمست خصمی بایدشتا زید ور نی رحیمی بکشدش
Hell is that very anger; it needs an adversary to live,
otherwise the Merciful One would extinguish it.
پس بماندی لطف بی قهر و بدیپس کمال پادشاهی کی بدی
Then Grace would remain without Wrath and evil;
and how then would there be the perfection of Sovereignty?
ریش خندی کرده اند آن منکرانبر مثلها و بیان ذاکران
Those deniers have mocked
the parables and explanations of those who remember God.
تو اگر خواهی بکن هم ریش خندچند خواهی زیست ای مردار چند
If you wish, go ahead and mock as well!
How long will you live, O carcass, how long?
شاد باشید ای محبان در نیازبر همین در که شود امروز باز
Be glad, O lovers, in your state of need,
at this very door which shall be opened today!
هر حویجی باشدش کردی دگردر میان باغ از سیر و کبر
Every herb has a separate plot
in the garden, from garlic to leek.
هر یکی با جنس خود در کرد خوداز برای پختگی نم می خورد
Each one drinks moisture in its own plot with its own kind,
for the sake of reaching maturity.
تو که کرد زعفرانی زعفرانباش و آمیزش مکن با دیگران
You who are a plot of saffron,
remain saffron and do not mix with others!
آب می خور زعفرانا تا رسیزعفرانی اندر آن حلوا رسی
Drink water, O saffron, so that you may grow
and arrive as saffron in that sweet halva.
در مکن در کرد شلغم پوز خویشکه نگردد با تو او هم طبع و کیش
Do not stick your snout into the plot of the turnip,
for it will not become of the same nature and faith as you.
تو بکردی او بکردی مودعهزانک ارض الله آمد واسعه
You are deposited in one plot, and he in another,
for indeed 'God's earth is spacious.'
خاصه آن ارضی که از پهناوریدر سفر گم می شود دیو و پری
Especially that Earth which, due to its vastness,
even demons and fairies lose their way when traveling through it.
اندر آن بحر و بیابان و جبالمنقطع می گردد اوهام و خیال
In that ocean, wilderness, and mountains,
all illusions and imaginations are cut off.
این بیابان در بیابانهای اوهم چو اندر بحر پر یک تای مو
This wilderness, compared to His wildernesses,
is like a single hair in a full ocean.
آب استاده که سیرستش نهانتازه تر خوشتر ز جوهای روان
Still water whose movement is hidden
is fresher and sweeter than running streams.
کو درون خویش چون جان و روانسیر پنهان دارد و پای روان
For, like the soul and spirit,
it has a hidden movement and flowing feet within itself.
مستمع خفتست کوته کن خطابای خطیب این نقش کم کن تو بر آب
The listener is asleep; cut short your discourse!
O preacher, draw fewer of these designs on water!
خیز بلقیسا که بازاریست تیززین خسیسان کسادافکن گریز
Arise, O Bilqis, for the market is brisk!
Flee from these base ones who cause stagnation.
خیز بلقیسا کنون با اختیارپیش از آنک مرگ آرد گیر و دار
Arise, O Bilqis, now with free will,
before death brings its capture and turmoil.
بعد از آن گوشت کشد مرگ آنچنانکه چو دزد آیی به شحنه جان کنان
After that, death will pull your ear in such a way
that, like a thief, you will come before the officer gasping for life.
زین خران تا چند باشی نعل دزدگر همی دزدی بیا و لعل دزد
How long will you be a horseshoe thief from these asses?
If you must steal, come and steal a ruby!
خواهرانت یافته ملک خلودتو گرفته ملکت کور و کبود
Your spiritual sisters have attained the kingdom of eternity,
while you have seized a blind and bruised kingdom.
ای خنک آن را کزین ملکت بجستکه اجل این ملک را ویران گرست
O happy is the one who escaped from this kingdom,
for death is the destroyer of this domain!
خیز بلقیسا بیا باری ببینملکت شاهان و سلطانان دین
Arise, O Bilqis, come and behold for once
the kingdom of the kings and rulers of religion,
شسته در باطن میان گلستانظاهر آحادی میان دوستان
Seated inwardly in the midst of a rose-garden,
while outwardly appearing as ordinary individuals among friends.
بوستان با او روان هر جا رودلیک آن از خلق پنهان می شود
The garden moves with them wherever they go,
but it remains hidden from the eyes of people.
میوه ها لابه کنان کز من بچرآب حیوان آمده کز من بخور
The fruits entreating: 'Graze on me!'
The Water of Life coming and saying: 'Drink from me!'
طوف می کن بر فلک بی پر و بالهم چو خورشید و چو بدر و چون هلال
Circumambulate the heavens without wings and feathers,
like the sun, the full moon, and the crescent.
چون روان باشی روان و پای نیمی خوری صد لوت و لقمه خای نی
When you are a moving soul without physical feet,
you consume a hundred exquisite dishes without chewing a single morsel.
نی نهنگ غم زند بر کشتیتنی پدید آید ز مردم زشتیت
Neither will the crocodile of grief strike your ship,
nor will any ugliness from people appear to you.
هم تو شاه و هم تو لشکر هم تو تختهم تو نیکوبخت باشی هم تو بخت
You are yourself the king, yourself the army, yourself the throne;
you are both the fortunate one and fortune itself!
گر تو نیکوبختی و سلطان زفتبخت غیر تست روزی بخت رفت
If your good fortune and mighty sovereignty are external to you,
then fortune is other than you, and one day it will depart.

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