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دفتر اول - بخش ۱۵۳ - باقی قصهٔ هاروت و ماروت و نکال و عقوبت ایشان هم در دنیا بچاه بابل / Book One - Section 153 - The Rest of the Story of Harut and Marut and Their Exemplary Punishment and Chastisement Even in This World in the Well of Babylon

متن و ترجمه / Text and Translation

چون گناه و فسق خلقان جهانمی شدی بر هر دو روشن آن زمان
When the sins and depravity of the world's people
became clear to both of them at that time,
دست خاییدن گرفتندی ز خشملیک عیب خود ندیدندی به چشم
they would gnaw their hands in anger,
yet they could not see their own faults with their eyes.
خویش در آیینه دید آن زشت مردرو بگردانید از آن و خشم کرد
When the ugly man saw himself in the mirror,
he turned his face away and grew angry.
خویش بین چون از کسی جرمی بدیدآتشی در وی ز دوزخ شد پدید
The self-conceited one, when he saw a fault in someone,
a fire from hell became manifest in him.
حمیت دین خواند او آن کبر راننگرد در خویش نفس گبر را
He called that pride the zeal of religion —
he does not look at his own unbelieving soul.
حمیت دین را نشانی دیگرستکه از آن آتش جهانی اخضرست
The zeal of religion has a different mark:
from that fire a world turns verdant.
گفت حقشان گر شما روشن گریددر سیه کاران مغفل منگرید
God said to them: If you are illumined,
do not gaze heedlessly upon the evildoers.
شکر گویید ای سپاه و چاکرانرسته اید از شهوت و از چاک ران
Give thanks, O host and servants —
you have been freed from lust and licentiousness.
گر از آن معنی نهم من بر شمامر شما را بیش نپذیرد سما
If I were to lay that meaning upon you,
the heavens would no longer receive you.
عصمتی که مر شما را در تنستآن ز عکس عصمت و حفظ منست
The ʿiṣmat that resides in your bodies
is from the reflection of My ʿiṣmat and protection.
آن ز من بینید نه از خود هین و هینتا نچربد بر شما دیو لعین
See that as from Me, not from yourselves — heed! heed! —
lest the accursed devil prevail over you.
آنچنان که کاتب وحی رسولدید حکمت در خود و نور اصول
Just as the scribe of the Prophet's revelation
saw wisdom in himself and the light of first principles,
خویش را هم صوت مرغان خدامی شمرد آن بد صفیری چون صدا
he reckoned himself of the same voice as God's birds —
that poor whistler, like an echo.
لحن مرغان را اگر واصف شویبر مراد مرغ کی واقف شوی
If you become a describer of the birds' melody,
when will you be privy to the bird's intent?
گر بیاموزی صفیر بلبلیتو چه دانی کو چه دارد با گلی
If you learn the nightingale's whistle,
what do you know of what it holds with the rose?
ور بدانی باشد آن هم از گمانچون ز لب جنبان گمانهای کران
And if you do know, that too is from conjecture,
like the guesses of the deaf from lip-movements.

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