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دفتر اول - بخش ۸۶ - دیدن خواجه طوطیان هندوستان را در دشت و پیغام رسانیدن از آن طوطی / Book One - Section 86 - The Merchant Seeing the Parrots of Hindustan in the Desert and Delivering the Message of That Parrot

متن و ترجمه / Text and Translation

چونک تا اقصای هندستان رسیددر بیابان طوطیی چندی بدید
When he reached the farthest reaches of Hindustan,
in the wilderness he saw several parrots.
مرکب استانید پس آواز دادآن سلام و آن امانت باز داد
He halted his mount, then called out
and delivered that greeting and that trust.
طوطیی زان طوطیان لرزید بساوفتاد و مرد و بگسستش نفس
One parrot among those parrots trembled greatly,
fell down and died, and its breath was cut off.
شد پشیمان خواجه از گفت خبرگفت رفتم در هلاک جانور
The merchant repented of having spoken the news;
he said: "I have brought about the destruction of a creature.
این مگر خویشست با آن طوطیکاین مگر دو جسم بود و روح یک
Perhaps this one is kin to that little parrot;
perhaps they were two bodies with one soul.
این چرا کردم چرا دادم پیامسوختم بیچاره را زین گفت خام
Why did I do this, why did I deliver the message?
I burned the poor creature with this crude speech."
این زبان چون سنگ و هم آهن وشستوانچ بجهد از زبان چون آتشست
This tongue is like flint and also like iron,
and what leaps from the tongue is like fire.
سنگ و آهن را مزن بر هم گزافگه ز روی نقل و گه از روی لاف
Do not strike flint and iron together recklessly—
now in the guise of storytelling, now in the guise of boasting.
زانک تاریکست و هر سو پنبه زاردرمیان پنبه چون باشد شرار
For it is dark, and on every side a cotton field;
how can a spark be in the midst of cotton?
ظالم آن قومی که چشمان دوختندزان سخنها عالمی را سوختند
Oppressors are those people who have sealed their eyes
and with such words burned a world.
عالمی را یک سخن ویران کندروبهان مرده را شیران کند
A single word can lay a world to ruin,
can turn dead foxes into lions.
جانها در اصل خود عیسی دمندیک زمان زخمند و گاهی مرهمند
Souls in their very essence breathe as Jesus breathed—
at one time they are wounds, and at another they are salve.
گر حجاب از جانها بر خاستیگفت هر جانی مسیح آساستی
If the veil were to lift from souls,
the speech of every soul would be like the Messiah's.
گر سخن خواهی که گویی چون شکرصبر کن از حرص و این حلوا مخور
If you wish your speech to be sweet as sugar,
restrain yourself from greed and do not eat this sweet.
صبر باشد مشتهای زیرکانهست حلوا آرزوی کودکان
Patience is the appetite of the wise;
sweet confection is the longing of children.
هرکه صبر آورد گردون بر رودهر که حلوا خورد واپس تر رود
Whoever brings patience ascends to the heavens;
whoever eats the sweet goes ever further back.

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