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دفتر ششم - بخش ۸۶ - تدبیر کردن موش به چغز کی من نمی‌توانم بر تو آمدن به وقت حاجت در آب میان ما وصلتی باید کی چون من بر لب جو آیم ترا توانم خبر کردن و تو چون بر سر سوراخ موش‌خانه آیی مرا توانی خبر کردن الی آخره / Book Six - Section 86 - The mouse devising a plan with the frog, saying, 'I cannot come to you in the water at the time of need; there must be a connection between us so that when I come to the bank of the stream, I can inform you, and when you come to the mouse-hole, you can inform me,'

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این سخن پایان ندارد گفت موشچغز را روزی که ای مصباح هوش
This discourse has no end. One day the mouse said
to the frog, 'O lamp of intelligence!
وقتها خواهم که گویم با تو رازتو درون آب داری ترک تاز
Sometimes I want to tell you a secret,
but you are frolicking in the water.
بر لب جو من ترا نعره زناننشنوی در آب نالهٔ عاشقان
On the bank of the stream, I cry out to you,
but you do not hear the groans of lovers in the water.
من بدین وقت معین ای دلیرمی نگردم از محاکات تو سیر
At this appointed time, O bold one,
I am not satiated with talking to you.
پنج وقت آمد نماز و رهنمونعاشقان را فی صلاة دائمون
Five times were appointed for prayer and guidance,
but lovers are in constant prayer.
نه به پنج آرام گیرد آن خمارکه در آن سرهاست نی پانصد هزار
That intoxication which is in those heads is not pacified by five,
nor by five hundred thousand.
نیست زر غبا وظیفهٔ عاشقانسخت مستسقیست جان صادقان
Visiting occasionally is not the duty of lovers;
the soul of the sincere is severely thirsty.
نیست زر غبا وظیفهٔ ماهیانزانک بی دریا ندارند انس جان
Visiting occasionally is not the duty of fishes,
because without the sea they have no joy of life.
آب این دریا که هایل بقعه ایستبا خمار ماهیان خود جرعه ایست
The water of this sea, which is a terrible expanse,
is but a sip for the thirst of the fishes.
یک دم هجران بر عاشق چو سالوصل سالی متصل پیشش خیال
One moment of separation is like a year to the lover,
and a year of continuous union seems a mere fantasy to him.
عشق مستسقیست مستسقی طلبدر پی هم این و آن چون روز و شب
Love is thirsty, and it seeks the thirsty;
they follow each other like day and night.
روز بر شب عاشقست و مضطرستچون ببینی شب برو عاشق ترست
Day is a lover of night and is desperate for it;
when you look closely, night is even more in love with it.
نیستشان از جست وجو یک لحظه ایستاز پی همشان یکی دم ایست نیست
They do not have a moment's pause from searching;
there is not a moment's halt in their pursuit of each other.
این گرفته پای آن آن گوش ایناین بر آن مدهوش و آن بی هوش این
This one grabs the foot of that, that one the ear of this;
this one is infatuated with that, and that one senseless over this.
در دل معشوق جمله عاشق استدر دل عذرا همیشه وامق است
In the heart of the beloved, all is the lover;
in the heart of Azra, Wamiq is always present.
در دل عاشق به جز معشوق نیستدر میانشان فارق و فاروق نیست
In the heart of the lover there is naught but the beloved;
there is no separator or distinction between them.
بر یکی اشتر بود این دو دراپس چه زر غبا بگنجد این دو را
These two bells are on one camel;
so how can "visiting occasionally" fit between these two?
هیچ کس با خویش زر غبا نمودهیچ کس با خود به نوبت یار بود
Has anyone ever visited himself occasionally?
Has anyone ever been a friend to himself by turns?
آن یکیی نه که عقلش فهم کردفهم این موقوف شد بر مرگ مرد
This is not a oneness that the intellect has understood;
the understanding of this depends upon the death of the man.
ور به عقل ادراک این ممکن بدیقهر نفس از بهر چه واجب شدی
And if it were possible to perceive this by the intellect,
why would the subjugation of the self have become obligatory?
با چنان رحمت که دارد شاه هشبی ضرورت چون بگوید نفس کش
With such mercy as the King of intelligence has,
how could He, without necessity, say: "Kill your self"?'

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