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دفتر اول - بخش ۱۳۶ - سپردن عرب هدیه را یعنی سبو را به غلامان خلیفه / Book One - Section 136 - The Arab Entrusting the Gift, Namely the Jug, to the Caliph's Servants

متن و ترجمه / Text and Translation

آن سبوی آب را در پیش داشتتخم خدمت رادر آن حضرت بکاشت
That jug of water he held before him;
He planted in that Presence the seed of service.
گفت این هدیه بدان سلطان بریدسایل شه را ز حاجت وا خرید
He said, “Take this gift to that Sultan;
Redeem the king’s beggar from need.
آب شیرین و سبوی سبز و نوز آب بارانی که جمع آمد به گو
It is sweet water in a green, new jug;
Say that it is rainwater that has been collected.”
خنده می آمد نقیبان را از آنلیک پذرفتند آن را همچو جان
The chamberlains felt laughter at this,
Yet they accepted it as dearly as life,
زانک لطف شاه خوب با خبرکرده بود اندر همه ارکان اثر
Because the graciousness of that well-informed, good king
Had made its effect in every pillar of the state.
خوی شاهان در رعیت جا کندچرخ اخضر خاک را خضرا کند
The nature of kings settles into the subjects;
The green heaven makes the earth green.
شه چو حوضی دان حشم چون لوله هاآب از لوله روان در گوله ها
Regard the king as a pool and the retinue as pipes;
Water runs from the pipes into the basins.
چونک آب جمله از حوضیست پاکهر یکی آبی دهد خوش ذوقناک
Since the water of all of them is pure from one pool,
Each gives water pleasant to the taste.
ور در آن حوض آب شورست و پلیدهر یکی لوله همان آرد پدید
But if the water in that pool is brackish and foul,
Each pipe brings forth that very same thing.
زانک پیوستست هر لوله به حوضخوض کن در معنی این حرف خوض
For every pipe is joined to the pool;
Dive into the meaning of this saying, dive.
لطف شاهنشاه جان بی وطنچون اثر کردست اندر کل تن
The grace of the King of kings, the placeless soul:
How has it made its effect throughout the whole body?
لطف عقل خوش نهاد خوش نسبچون همه تن را در آرد در ادب
The grace of the well-natured, well-descended intellect:
How does it bring the whole body into discipline?
عشق شنگ بی قرار بی سکونچون در آرد کل تن را در جنون
Restless, unruly love, without rest or stillness:
How does it bring the whole body into madness?
لطف آب بحر کو چون کوثرستسنگ ریزه ش جمله در و گوهرست
The grace of the sea’s water, which is like Kawthar:
Its pebbles are all pearls and jewels.
هر هنر که استا بدان معروف شدجان شاگردان بدان موصوف شد
Whatever art made a master known,
The souls of his pupils became marked by that art.
پیش استاد اصولی هم اصولخواند آن شاگرد چست با حصول
Before a master of legal theory, the quick pupil
Studies legal theory with attainment.
پیش استاد فقیه آن فقه خوانفقه خواند نه اصول اندر بیان
Before a jurist master, that student of jurisprudence
Studies jurisprudence, not legal theory, in discourse.
پیش استادی که او نحوی بودجان شاگردش ازو نحوی شود
Before a master who is a grammarian,
His pupil’s soul becomes grammatical through him.
باز استادی که او محو رهستجان شاگردش ازو محو شهست
But a master who is effaced on the Path:
His pupil’s soul through him is effaced in the King.
زین همه انواع دانش روز مرگدانش فقرست ساز راه و برگ
Of all these kinds of knowledge, on the day of death,
The knowledge of poverty is the equipment and provision for the road.

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