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دفتر سوم - بخش ۱۱۱ - حکم کردن داود بر صاحب گاو کی جمله مال خود را به وی ده / Book Three - Section 111 - David passing judgment on the owner of the cow that he should give all his wealth to him

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بعد از آن داود گفتش کای عنودجمله مال خویش او را بخش زود
After that David said to him, 'O obstinate one,
Give all your wealth to him quickly.
ورنه کارت سخت گردد گفتمتتا نگردد ظاهر از وی استمت
Otherwise your affair will become hard, I have told you,
Lest the truth of the case concerning him become manifest.'
خاک بر سر کرد و جامه بر دریدکه به هر دم می کنی ظلمی مزید
He threw dust on his head and tore his garment,
Saying, 'At every moment you add yet another injustice.'
یک دمی دیگر برین تشنیع راندباز داودش به پیش خویش خواند
For another moment he continued this denunciation;
Again David called him before himself.
گفت چون بختت نبود ای بخت کورظلمت آمد اندک اندک در ظهور
He said, 'Since you had no fortune, O fortune-blind one,
Your wrongdoing has gradually come into view.
ریده ای آنگاه صدر و پیشگاهای دریغ از چون تو خر خاشاک و کاه
You have defiled the place of honor and the forecourt;
Alas, that straw and chaff should belong to an ass like you.
رو که فرزندان تو با جفت توبندگان او شدند افزون مگو
Go, for your children together with your wife
Have become his slaves; say no more.'
سنگ بر سینه همی زد با دو دستمی دوید از جهل خود بالا و پست
He beat his breast with both hands,
Running up and down in his own ignorance.
خلق هم اندر ملامت آمدندکز ضمیر کار او غافل بدند
The people too began to blame him,
For they were unaware of the inward reality of his affair.
ظالم از مظلوم کی داند کسیکو بود سخرهٔ هوا همچون خسی
Who can know the oppressor from the oppressed,
When he is the plaything of passion like a straw?
ظالم از مظلوم آنکس پی بردکو سر نفس ظلوم خود برد
The one who can discern the oppressor from the oppressed
Is the one who cuts off the head of his own tyrannical self.
ورنه آن ظالم که نفس است از درونخصم هر مظلوم باشد از جنون
Otherwise that oppressor, the inward self,
Will in madness be the enemy of every oppressed one.
سگ هماره حمله بر مسکین کندتا تواند زخم بر مسکین زند
A dog always attacks the poor,
And strikes the poor whenever it can.
شرم شیران راست نه سگ را بدانکه نگیرد صید از همسایگان
Know that shame belongs to lions, not to dogs:
A lion does not take prey from its neighbors.
عامهٔ مظلوم کش، ظالم پرستاز کمین، سگشان سوی داود جست
The common people, killers of the oppressed and worshippers of oppressors,
Sprang toward David from their doglike ambush.
روی در داود کردند آن فریقکای نبی مجتبی بر ما شفیق
That group turned their faces to David:
'O chosen Prophet, compassionate toward us,
این نشاید از تو کین ظلمیست فاشقهر کردی بی گناهی را به لاش
This does not befit you, for this is manifest injustice;
You have overwhelmed an innocent man without cause.'

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