Poem

دفتر ششم - بخش ۵۶ - مضاحک گفتن درزی و ترک را از قوت خنده بسته شدن دو چشم تنگ او و فرصت یافتن درزی / Book Six - Section 56 - The Tailor Telling Jokes and the Turk's Narrow Eyes Shutting from the Force of Laughter, and the Tailor Finding an Opportunity

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ترک خندیدن گرفت از داستان
چشم تنگش گشت بسته آن زمان

پاره ای دزدید و کردش زیر ران
از جز حق از همه احیا نهان

حق همی دید آن ولی ستارخوست
لیک چون از حد بری غماز اوست

ترک را از لذت افسانه اش
رفت از دل دعوی پیشانه اش

اطلس چه دعوی چه رهن چی
ترک سرمستست در لاغ اچی

لابه کردش ترک کز بهر خدا
لاغ می گو که مرا شد مغتذا

گفت لاغی خندمینی آن دغا
که فتاد از قهقهه او بر قفا

پاره ای اطلس سبک بر نیفه زد
ترک غافل خوش مضاحک می مزد

هم چنین بار سوم ترک خطا
گفت لاغی گوی از بهر خدا

گفت لاغی خندمین تر زان دو بار
کرد او این ترک را کلی شکار

چشم بسته عقل جسته مولهه
مست ترک مدعی از قهقهه

پس سوم بار از قبا دزدید شاخ
که ز خنده ش یافت میدان فراخ

چون چهارم بار آن ترک خطا
لاغ از آن استا همی کرد اقتضا

رحم آمد بر وی آن استاد را
کرد در باقی فن و بیداد را

گفت مولع گشت این مفتون درین
بی خبر کین چه خسارست و غبین

بوسه افشان کرد بر استاد او
که بمن بهر خدا افسانه گو

ای فسانه گشته و محو از وجود
چند افسانه بخواهی آزمود

خندمین تر از تو هیچ افسانه نیست
بر لب گور خراب خویش ایست

ای فرو رفته به گور جهل و شک
چند جویی لاغ و دستان فلک

تا بکی نوشی تو عشوهٔ این جهان
که نه عقلت ماند بر قانون نه جان

لاغ این چرخ ندیم کرد و مرد
آب روی صد هزاران چون تو برد

می درد می دوزد این درزی عام
جامهٔ صدسالگان طفل خام

لاغ او گر باغها را داد داد
چون دی آمد داده را بر باد داد

پیره طفلان شسته پیشش بهر کد
تا به سعد و نحس او لاغی کند

English translation

The Turk began to laugh at the tale, His narrow eyes shut tight at that time. He stole a piece and hid it under his thigh, Hidden from all living beings except God. God saw it, but He is the Veiler of sins; Yet when you exceed the limit, He exposes you. From the delight of the tale, the Turk Forgot his former claims from his heart. What satin? What claim? What pledge? The Turk is intoxicated by the jokes of his brother. The Turk begged him, 'For God's sake, Tell jokes, for they have become my nourishment.' That cheat told a joke so funny That from guffawing he fell on his back. He swiftly tucked a piece of satin into his waistband; The heedless Turk happily savored the jokes. Thus, for the third time, the erring Turk Said, 'Tell a joke for God's sake.' He told a joke funnier than the first two; He made this Turk entirely his prey. Eyes shut, reason gone, bewildered, The boastful Turk was drunk with guffawing. Then for the third time he stole a piece from the coat, For through his laughter, he found an open field. When for the fourth time that erring Turk Demanded a joke from that master, The master took pity on him And abandoned the rest of his trickery and injustice. He said, 'This infatuated man has become addicted to this, Unaware of what a loss and fraud this is.' He showered kisses upon his master, Saying, 'For God's sake, tell me a tale.' O you who have become a tale and erased from existence! How many tales will you wish to experience? There is no tale more laughable than you; Stand at the edge of your own ruined grave! O you sunk in the grave of ignorance and doubt, How long will you seek the jokes and tricks of the heavens? How long will you drink the deception of this world, Which leaves neither your reason nor your soul in order? The jokes of this heaven, the companion of pain and grief, Have washed away the honor of hundreds of thousands like you. It tears and sews, this common tailor, The garments of centenarians and raw infants alike. If its joke gave justice to the gardens, When December came, it cast what it gave to the wind. Old infants sit before it to beg, So that through its fortune and misfortune it may play a joke.

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