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دفتر سوم - بخش ۱۳۰ - معنی حزم و مثال مرد حازم / Book Three - Section 130 - The Meaning of Prudence and the Example of the Prudent Man

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یا به حال اولینان بنگرید
یا سوی آخر بحزمی در پرید

حزم چه بود در دو تدبیر احتیاط
از دو آن گیری که دورست از خباط

آن یکی گوید درین ره هفت روز
نیست آب و هست ریگ پای سوز

آن دگر گوید دروغست این بران
که بهر شب چشمه ای بینی روان

حزم آن باشد که بر گیری تو آب
تا رهی از ترس و باشی بر صواب

گر بود در راه آب این را بریز
ور نباشد وای بر مرد ستیز

ای خلیفه زادگان دادی کنید
حزم بهر روز میعادی کنید

آن عدوی کز پدرتان کین کشید
سوی زندانش ز علیین کشید

آن شه شطرنج دل را مات کرد
از بهشتش سخرهٔ آفات کرد

چند جا بندش گرفت اندر نبرد
تا بکشتی در فکندش روی زرد

اینچنین کردست با آن پهلوان
سست سستش منگرید ای دیگران

مادر و بابای ما را آن حسود
تاج و پیرایه بچالاکی ربود

کردشان آنجا برهنه و زار و خوار
سالها بگریست آدم زار زار

که ز اشک چشم او رویید نبت
که چرا اندر جریدهٔ لاست ثبت

تو قیاسی گیر طراریش را
که چنان سرور کند زو ریش را

الحذر ای گل پرستان از شرش
تیغ لا حولی زنید اندر سرش

کو همی بیند شما را از کمین
که شما او را نمی بینید هین

دایما صیاد ریزد دانه ها
دانه پیدا باشد و پنهان دغا

هر کجا دانه بدیدی الحذر
تا نبندد دام بر تو بال و پر

زانک مرغی کو بترک دانه کرد
دانه از صحرای بی تزویر خورد

هم بدان قانع شد و از دام جست
هیچ دامی پر و بالش را نبست

English translation

Either look to the state of those who came before, Or fly with prudence toward the end.

What is prudence? In two counsels, take the cautious one — Of the two, choose what is far from blunder.

One says: on this road, for seven days, there is no water, only foot-scorching sand.

Another says: this is a lie — press on, for each night you will find a flowing spring.

Prudence is this: that you take water with you, so you are delivered from fear and set upon the right path.

If water is found along the road, pour yours out; but if there is none, woe to the man of contention.

O descendants of the khalīfa, be just! Make prudence your daily covenant.

That enemy who bore enmity against your father dragged him from ʿIlliyyīn down to his prison.

That enemy checkmated the sovereign of the heart's chess, and made him the sport of afflictions, driven from his Paradise.

Many times he bound him in battle, until he threw him, pale-faced, into the wrestling ring.

Thus has he done to that great champion — do not regard him as weak and feeble, O you others!

That envious one snatched with cunning the crown and adornment from our mother and father.

He left them naked, wretched, and abased; Adam wept piteously for years.

Such that from the tears of his eyes plants grew — for why is he written in the register of lā?

Draw an analogy from his treachery — that he would pluck the beard of even such a master.

Beware, O flower-worshippers, of his malice! Strike the sword of lā ḥawla upon his head!

For he sees you from his ambush, while you cannot see him — beware!

The hunter forever scatters seeds; the seed is visible, but the deceit lies hidden.

Wherever you see bait — beware! — lest the trap bind your wings and feathers.

For the bird that forsook the baited seed ate seed from a field free of deceit.

Content with that, it escaped the snare; no trap ever bound its wings and feathers.

Updated 2026-06-30

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