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دفتر چهارم - بخش ۶۵ - بقیهٔ نوشتن آن غلام رقعه به طلب اجری / Book Four - Section 65 - The Rest of That Slave Writing a Petition Demanding His Allowance

متن و ترجمه / Text and Translation

رفت پیش از نامه پیش مطبخیکای بخیل از مطبخ شاه سخی
He went, before the letter, to the kitchen steward:
"O miser, from the kitchen of the generous king!
دور ازو وز همت او کین قدراز جری ام آیدش اندر نظر
Far be it from him and from his aspiration that so much
Of my wages should come into his notice."
گفت بهر مصلحت فرموده استنه برای بخل و نه تنگی دست
He said: "It was commanded for reasons of wise policy —
Not for miserliness, nor for tightness of hand."
گفت دهلیزیست والله این سخنپیش شه خاکست هم زر کهن
He said: "By God, this talk is a mere vestibule;
Before the king, even old gold is as dust."
مطبخی ده گونه حجت بر فراشتاو همه رد کرد از حرصی که داشت
The kitchen steward raised ten kinds of argument;
He rejected them all because of the greed within him.
چون جری کم آمدش در وقت چاشتزد بسی تشنیع او سودی نداشت
When his wages fell short at the time of the morning meal,
He hurled much reproach, but it availed nothing.
گفت قاصد می کنید اینها شماگفت نه که بنده فرمانیم ما
He said: "You are doing this deliberately."
He said: "No, for we are servants of the command.
این مگیر از فرع این از اصل گیربر کمان کم زن که از بازوست تیر
Take this not from the branch; take it from the root.
Do not strike the bow — the arrow comes from the arm.
ما رمیت اذ رمیت ابتلاستبر نبی کم نه گنه کان از خداست
'You did not throw when you threw' is a trial;
Lay not the sin on the Prophet, for it is from God.
آب از سر تیره است ای خیره خشمپیشتر بنگر یکی بگشای چشم
The water is muddied at its source, O blindly-wrathful one;
Look further ahead; open your eyes once."
شد ز خشم و غم درون بقعه ایسوی شه بنوشت خشمین رقعه ای
He went, in anger and grief, into a certain place,
And wrote an angry petition to the king.
اندر آن رقعه ثنای شاه گفتگوهر جود و سخای شاه سفت
In that petition he spoke the king's praise,
He strung the pearls of the king's generosity and liberality:
کای ز بحر و ابر افزون کف تودر قضای حاجت حاجات جو
"O you whose open hand exceeds the sea and cloud
In fulfilling the need of the one who seeks —
زانک ابر آنچ دهد گریان دهدکف تو خندان پیاپی خوان نهد
For the cloud gives what it gives weeping,
While your hand, smiling, sets the table again and again."
ظاهر رقعه اگر چه مدح بودبوی خشم از مدح اثرها می نمود
Though the surface of the petition was praise,
The scent of anger showed through the traces of that praise.
زان همه کار تو بی نورست و زشتکه تو دوری دور از نور سرشت
Because of that, all your work is lightless and ugly,
For you are far, far from the light of your nature.
رونق کار خسان کاسد شودهم چو میوهٔ تازه زو فاسد شود
The splendor of the work of the vile grows withered,
Like fresh fruit, it rots thereby.
رونق دنیا برآرد زو کسادزانک هست از عالم کون و فساد
The splendor of the world too produces stagnation from it,
For it belongs to the world of generation and corruption.
خوش نگردد از مدیحی سینه هاچونک در مداح باشد کینه ها
Hearts are not gladdened by a panegyric
When enmities lie within the panegyrist.
ای دل از کین و کراهت پاک شووانگهان الحمد خوان چالاک شو
O heart, purify yourself from enmity and aversion,
Then recite al-Hamd and be swift.
بر زبان الحمد و اکراه دروناز زبان تلبیس باشد یا فسون
Al-Hamd on the tongue but aversion within —
That comes from a tongue of talbīs or enchantment.
وانگهان گفته خدا که ننگرممن به ظاهر من به باطن ناظرم
And God has said: "I look not at the outward;
I am the Beholder of the inward."

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