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دفتر ششم - بخش ۴۷ - بار دیگر رجوع کردن به قصهٔ صوفی و قاضی / Book Six - Section 47 - Returning once again to the story of the Sufi and the Qadi

متن و ترجمه / Text and Translation

گفت صوفی در قصاص یک قفاسر نشاید باد دادن از عمی
The Sufi said, 'In retaliation for a single slap
one should not throw away one's head out of blindness.
خرقهٔ تسلیم اندر گردنمبر من آسان کرد سیلی خوردنم
The cloak of surrender around my neck
made receiving the slap easy for me.'
دید صوفی خصم خود را سخت زارگفت اگر مشتش زنم من خصم وار
The Sufi saw his adversary in a very miserable state.
He said, 'If I strike him with my fist like an enemy,
او به یک مشتم بریزد چون رصاصشاه فرماید مرا زجر و قصاص
He will crumble from a single punch of mine like lead.
The king will order my punishment and retaliation.
خیمه ویرانست و بشکسته وتداو بهانه می جود تا در فتد
The tent is ruined and the peg broken;
he is seeking an excuse to collapse.
بهر این مرده دریغ آید دریغکه قصاصم افتد اندر زیر تیغ
It would be a great pity for this dead man
that my retaliation should fall under the sword (lead to my execution).'
چون نمی تانست کف بر خصم زدعزمش آن شد کش سوی قاضی برد
Since he could not strike his adversary with his palm,
his resolve became to take him to the judge,
که ترازوی حق است و کیله اشمخلص است از مکر دیو و حیله اش
For he is the scale of Truth and its measure;
he is the deliverer from the deceit and trickery of the devil.
هست او مقراض احقاد و جدالقاطع جن دو خصم و قیل و قال
He is the scissors for hatreds and disputes,
severing the root of two adversaries and idle talk.
دیو در شیشه کند افسون اوفتنه ها ساکن کند قانون او
His spell puts the devil in a bottle;
his law pacifies rebellions.
چون ترازو دید خصم پر طمعسرکشی بگذارد و گردد تبع
When the greedy adversary sees the scale,
he leaves rebelliousness and becomes a follower.
ور ترازو نیست گر افزون دهیشاز قسم راضی نگردد آگهیش
And if there is no scale, even if you give him more,
his awareness will not be satisfied with the portion.
هست قاضی رحمت و دفع ستیزقطره ای از بحر عدل رستخیز
The judge is mercy and the repeller of conflict,
a drop from the sea of justice of the Resurrection.
قطره گرچه خرد و کوته پا بودلطف آب بحر ازو پیدا بود
Although the drop is small and short-stepping,
the grace of the sea's water is evident in it.
از غبار ار پاک داری کله راتو ز یک قطره ببینی دجله را
If you keep your head clear of dust,
you will see the Tigris from a single drop.
جزوها بر حال کلها شاهدستتا شفق غماز خورشید آمدست
Parts are witnesses to the state of wholes,
just as the twilight is the indicator of the sun.
آن قسم بر جسم احمد راند حقآنچ فرمودست کلا والشفق
God swore that oath by the body of Ahmad
when He proclaimed, 'Nay, by the twilight.'
مور بر دانه چرا لرزان بدیگر از آن یک دانه خرمن دان بدی
Why would the ant tremble over a grain
if it knew the harvest from that single grain?
بر سر حرف آ که صوفی بی دلستدر مکافات جفا مستعجلست
Return to the story, for the Sufi is faint-hearted;
he is hasty in seeking retribution for the cruelty.
ای تو کرده ظلمها چون خوش دلیاز تقاضای مکافی غافلی
O you who have committed injustices, why are you happy?
You are unaware of the demand of the Requiter.
یا فراموشت شدست از کرده هاتکه فرو آویخت غفلت پرده هات
Or have you forgotten your deeds
because heedlessness has hung its veils?
گر نه خصمیهاستی اندر قفاتجرم گردون رشک بردی بر صفات
If there were no enemies (claims) behind you,
the body of heaven would envy your attributes.
لیک محبوسی برای آن حقوقاندک اندک عذر می خواه از عقوق
But you are imprisoned because of those rights;
seek pardon little by little for your disobedience.
تا به یکبارت نگیرد محتسبآب خود روشن کن اکنون با محب
Lest the inspector seizes you all at once,
clear your water now with the Beloved.
رفت صوفی سوی آن سیلی زنشدست زد چون مدعی در دامنش
The Sufi went towards the one who slapped him
and grabbed his skirt like a claimant.
اندر آوردش بر قاضی کشانکین خر ادبار را بر خر نشان
He dragged him before the judge, saying,
'Mount this donkey of misfortune on a donkey,
یا به زخم دره او را ده جزاآنچنان که رای تو بیند سزا
Or punish him with the blows of the whip,
as your judgment sees fit.
کانک از زجر تو میرد در دماربر تو تاوان نیست آن باشد جبار
For whoever dies in destruction from your punishment,
there is no penalty on you; it is immune.'
در حد و تعزیر قاضی هر که مردنیست بر قاضی ضمان کو نیست خرد
Whoever dies under the judge's fixed punishment or chastisement,
there is no liability on the judge, for he is not insignificant.
نایب حقست و سایهٔ عدل حقآینهٔ هر مستحق و مستحق
He is the deputy of God and the shadow of God's justice,
the mirror of every rightful claimant and the deserving.
کو ادب از بهر مظلومی کندنه برای عرض و خشم و دخل خود
For he inflicts discipline for the sake of the oppressed,
not for his own honor, anger, or income.
چون برای حق و روز آجله ستگر خطایی شد دیت بر عاقله ست
Since it is for God and the Hereafter,
if a mistake occurs, the blood money is upon the 'Aqila (tribe).
آنک بهر خود زند او ضامنستوآنک بهر حق زند او آمنست
He who strikes for himself is liable,
and he who strikes for God is safe.
گر پدر زد مر پسر را و بمردآن پدر را خون بها باید شمرد
If a father strikes a son and he dies,
that father must pay the blood money,
زانک او را بهر کار خویش زدخدمت او هست واجب بر ولد
Because he struck him for his own affairs,
since serving him is obligatory on the child.
چون معلم زد صبی را شد تلفبر معلم نیست چیزی لا تخف
When a teacher strikes a boy and he perishes,
there is nothing upon the teacher, do not fear,
کان معلم نایب افتاد و امینهر امین را هست حکمش همچنین
For that teacher is a deputy and a trustee;
every trustee has a similar ruling.
نیست واجب خدمت استا بروپس نبود استا به زجرش کارجو
Serving the master is not obligatory on him,
so the master was not seeking his own benefit by punishing him.
ور پدر زد او برای خود زدستلاجرم از خونبها دادن نرست
But if the father struck, he struck for himself;
inevitably, he does not escape paying blood money.
پس خودی را سر ببر ای ذوالفقاربی خودی شو فانیی درویش وار
So sever the head of selfhood, O Zulfiqar;
become selfless and annihilated like a dervish.
چون شدی بی خود هر آنچ تو کنیما رمیت اذ رمیتی آمنی
When you become selfless, whatever you do,
'You did not throw when you threw,' you are safe.
آن ضمان بر حق بود نه بر امینهست تفصیلش به فقه اندر مبین
That liability is on God, not on the trustee;
its details are clear in jurisprudence.
هر دکانی راست سودایی دگرمثنوی دکان فقرست ای پسر
Every shop has a different trade;
the Masnavi is the shop of poverty (spiritual detachment), O son.
در دکان کفشگر چرمست خوبقالب کفش است اگر بینی تو چوب
In the cobbler's shop there is fine leather;
if you see wood, it is the shoe mold.
پیش بزازان قز و ادکن بودبهر گز باشد اگر آهن بود
Before the drapers there is raw silk and colored cloth;
if there is iron, it is for the yardstick.
مثنوی ما دکان وحدتستغیر واحد هرچه بینی آن بتست
Our Masnavi is the shop of Unity;
whatever you see other than the One is an idol.
بت ستودن بهر دام عامه راهم چنان دان کالغرانیق العلی
Praising idols as a snare for the common people,
consider it like 'Al-Gharaniq al-Ula' (the lofty cranes).
خواندش در سورهٔ والنجم زودلیک آن فتنه بد از سوره نبود
He read it quickly in the Surah An-Najm,
but that was a trial, it was not from the Surah.
جمله کفار آن زمان ساجد شدندهم سری بود آنک سر بر در زدند
All the infidels at that time prostrated;
it was also a mystery that they bowed their heads to the ground.
بعد ازین حرفیست پیچاپیچ و دوربا سلیمان باش و دیوان را مشور
After this is a twisted and distant discourse;
be with Solomon and do not provoke the demons.
هین حدیث صوفی و قاضی بیاروان ستمکار ضعیف زار زار
Come, bring the story of the Sufi and the Qadi,
and that weak, miserable, weeping oppressor.
گفت قاضی ثبت العرش ای پسرتا برو نقشی کنم از خیر و شر
The judge said, 'Establish the throne (facts) first, O son,
so that I may engrave upon it a design of good and evil.
کو زننده کو محل انتقاماین خیالی گشته است اندر سقام
Where is the striker, where is the object of revenge?
This one has become a phantom in illness.
شرع بهر زندگان و اغنیاستشرع بر اصحاب گورستان کجاست
The religious law is for the living and the wealthy;
where is the law for the inhabitants of the graveyard?
آن گروهی کز فقیری بی سرندصد جهت زان مردگان فانی تراند
That group who are headless from poverty
are a hundred ways more annihilated than those dead.
مرده از یک روست فانی در گزندصوفیان از صد جهت فانی شدند
The dead are annihilated from harm in one respect;
the Sufis have become annihilated in a hundred respects.
مرگ یک قتلست و این سیصد هزارهر یکی را خونبهایی بی شمار
Death is a single slaying, and this is three hundred thousand;
for each one there is an incalculable blood money.
گرچه کشت این قوم را حق بارهاریخت بهر خونبها انبارها
Although God killed this people many times,
He poured out granaries for their blood money.
هم چو جرجیس اند هر یک در سرارکشته گشته زنده گشته شصت بار
They are like Saint George, each one in secret,
killed and brought back to life sixty times.
کشته از ذوق سنان دادگرمی بسوزد که بزن زخمی دگر
Slain by the taste of the spear of the Just Judge,
he burns, saying: 'Strike another blow!'
والله از عشق وجود جان پرستکشته بر قتل دوم عاشق ترست
By Allah, out of love for the soul-worshipping existence,
the slain is more in love with the second killing.'
گفت قاضی من قضادار حیمحاکم اصحاب گورستان کیم
The Qadi said, 'I am a judge for the living;
how am I the ruler over the inhabitants of the graveyard?
این به صورت گر نه در گورست پستگورها در دودمانش آمدست
If outwardly he is not lowly in the grave,
graves have entered his lineage.
بس بدیدی مرده اندر گور توگور را در مرده بین ای کور تو
You have seen many a dead man in the grave;
see the grave in the dead man, O blind one.
گر ز گوری خشت بر تو اوفتادعاقلان از گور کی خواهند داد
If a brick from a tomb fell upon you,
how would the wise seek justice from the tomb?
گرد خشم و کینهٔ مرده مگردهین مکن با نقش گرمابه نبرد

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