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دفتر دوم - بخش ۱۰۸ - سخن گفتن به زبان حال و فهم کردن آن / Book Two - Section 108 - Speaking in the language of state and understanding it

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ماجرای شمع با پروانه تو
بشنو و معنی گزین ز افسانه تو

گرچه گفتی نیست سر گفت هست
هین به بالا پر مپر چون جغد پست

گفت در شطرنج کین خانهٔ رخ است
گفت خانه از کجاش آمد به دست؟

خانه را بخرید یا میراث یافت؟
فرخ آنکس کو سوی معنی شتافت

گفت نحوی زید عمروا قد ضرب
گفت چونش کرد بی جرمی ادب

عمرو را جرمش چه بد کان زید خام
بی گنه او را بزد همچون غلام

گفت این پیمانهٔ معنی بود
گندمی بستان که پیمانه ست رد

زید و عمروا، ز بهر اعرابست و ساز
گر دروغست آن تو با اعراب ساز

گفت نی من آن ندانم عمرو را
زید چون زد بی گناه و بی خطا

گفت از ناچار و لاغی بر گشود
عمرو یک واو فزون دزدیده بود

زید واقف گشت دزدش را بزد
چونک از حد برد او را حد سزد

English translation

Hear the tale of the candle with the moth — listen and choose meaning from the fable. Though speech is absent, the secret of speech is there; beware — fly upward, do not fly low like an owl. One said in chess: "This is the rook's square"; another said: "How did he come to have a house?" "Did he buy the house or inherit it?" Blessed is one who hastens toward meaning. A grammarian said: "Zayd struck ʿAmr"; another said: "How did he punish him without cause?" "What was ʿAmr's crime, that this raw Zayd struck him guiltless, as one strikes a slave?" He said: "This was the vessel of meaning; take a grain of wheat — the vessel is to be discarded." Zayd and ʿAmr exist for the sake of grammatical inflection and form; if that is false, deal yourself with the inflection. He said: "No, I cannot grasp that — how did Zayd strike ʿAmr without guilt or fault?" He said: out of necessity a jest was opened — ʿAmr had stolen one extra wāw. Zayd found out and struck the thief; since he exceeded the limit, the ḥadd-punishment is his due.

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