1Cademy - 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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مثنوی معنوی: دفتر سوم / Masnavi: Book Three
دفتر سوم - بخش ۱۱۰ - حکم کردن داود بر صاحب گاو کی از سر گاو برخیز و تشنیع صاحب گاو بر داود علیه السلام / Book Three - Section 110 - David passing judgment on the owner of the cow that he should give up the cow, and the reproaches of the owner of the cow against David, peace be upon him

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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 عنود
جمله مال خویش او را بخش زود

ورنه کارت سخت گردد گفتمت
تا نگردد ظاهر از وی استمت

خاک بر سر کرد و جامه بر درید
که بهر دم می‌کنی ظلمی مزید

یک‌دمی دیگر برین تشنیع راند
باز داودش به پیش خویش خواند

گفت چون بختت نبود ای بخت‌کور
ظلمت آمد اندک اندک در ظهور

ریده‌ای آنگاه صدر و پیشگاه
ای دریغ از چون تو خر خاشاک و کاه

رو که فرزندان تو با جفت تو
بندگان او شدند افزون مگو

سنگ بر سینه همی‌زد با دو دست
می‌دوید از جهل خود بالا و پست

خلق هم اندر ملامت آمدند
کز ضمیر کار او غافل بدند

ظالم از مظلوم کی داند کسی
کو بود سخرهٔ هوا همچون خسی

ظالم از مظلوم آنکس پی برد
کو سر نفس ظلوم خود برد

ورنه آن ظالم که نفس است از درون
خصم هر مظلوم باشد از جنون

سگ هماره حمله بر مسکین کند
تا تواند زخم بر مسکین زند

شرم شیران راست نه سگ را بدان
که نگیرد صید از همسایگان

عامهٔ مظلوم‌کش ظالم‌پرست
از کمین سگشان سوی داود جست

روی در داود کردند آن فریق
کای نبی مجتبی بر ما شفیق

این نشاید از تو کین ظلمیست فاش
قهر کردی بی‌گناهی را بلاش

English translation

After that David said to him, 'O obstinate one, Give all your wealth to him quickly. Otherwise your affair will become hard, I have told you, Lest the truth of the case concerning him become manifest.' He threw dust on his head and tore his garment, Saying, 'At every moment you add yet another injustice.' For another moment he continued this denunciation; Again David called him before himself. He said, 'Since you had no fortune, O fortune-blind one, Your wrongdoing has gradually come into view. You have defiled the place of honor and the forecourt; Alas, that straw and chaff should belong to an ass like you. Go, for your children together with your wife Have become his slaves; say no more.' He beat his breast with both hands, Running up and down in his own ignorance. The people too began to blame him, For they were unaware of the inward reality of his affair. Who can know the oppressor from the oppressed, When he is the plaything of passion like a straw? The one who can discern the oppressor from the oppressed Is the one who cuts off the head of his own tyrannical self. Otherwise that oppressor, the inward self, Will in madness be the enemy of every oppressed one. A dog always attacks the poor, And strikes the poor whenever it can. Know that shame belongs to lions, not to dogs: A lion does not take prey from its neighbors. The common people, killers of the oppressed and worshippers of oppressors, Sprang toward David from their doglike ambush. That group turned their faces to David: 'O chosen Prophet, compassionate toward us, This does not befit you, for this is manifest injustice; You have overwhelmed an innocent man without cause.'

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