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دفتر دوم - بخش ۲۲ - به راه کردن شاه یکی را از آن دو غلام و ازین دیگر پرسیدن / Book Two - Section 22 - The King Sending One of Those Two Slaves on an Errand and Questioning the Other

متن و ترجمه / Text and Translation

آن غلامک را چو دید اهل ذکاآن دگر را کرد اشارت که بیا
When he saw that the little slave was a man of intelligence,
He motioned to the other one, saying, "Come!"
کاف رحمت گفتمش تصغیر نیستجد گود فرزندکم تحقیر نیست
(I said "little slave" as a diminutive of affection, not of contempt;
A grandfather says "my little child," not meaning belittlement.)
چون بیامد آن دوم در پیش شاهبود او گنده دهان دندان سیاه
When that second one came before the king,
He had a foul-smelling mouth and black teeth.
گرچه شه ناخوش شد از گفتار اوجست و جویی کرد هم ز اسرار او
Although the king was displeased by his speech,
He still made a search into his secrets.
گفت با این شکل و این گند دهاندور بنشین لیک آن سوتر مران
He said, "With this appearance and this foul mouth,
Sit at a distance, but do not drive yourself further away.
که تو اهل نامه و رقعه بدینه جلیس و یار و هم بقعه بدی
For you might be a man of letters and petitions,
Even if you are not a companion, friend, and intimate.
تا علاج آن دهان تو کنیمتو حبیب و ما طبیب پر فنیم
(Wait) until we cure that mouth of yours;
You are a beloved friend, and we are an expert physician.
بهر کیکی نو گلیمی سوختننیست لایق از تو دیده دوختن
To burn a new blanket for the sake of a flea,
It is not fitting to avert our eyes from you.
با همه بنشین دو سه دستان بگوتا ببینم صورت عقلت نکو
Despite everything, sit down and tell two or three tales,
So that I may see the beautiful form of your intellect."
آن ذکی را پس فرستاد او به کارسوی حمامی که رو خود را بخار
Then he sent that intelligent one on an errand
To a bathhouse, saying, "Go and wash yourself."
وین دگر را گفت خه تو زیرکیصد غلامی در حقیقت نه یکی
And to this other one he said, "Bravo, you are clever!
In truth, you are a hundred slaves, not one.
آن نه ای که خواجه تاش تو نموداز تو ما را سرد می کرد آن حسود
You are not what your fellow-slave described;
That envious one was making us cold towards you.
گفت او دزد و کژست و کژنشینحیز و نامرد و چنینست و چنین
He said he is a thief, crooked, and a companion of the crooked,
Effeminate, unmanly, and such and such."
گفت پیوسته بدست او راست گوراست گویی من ندیدستم چو او
He replied, "He has always been a speaker of truth;
I have not seen anyone as truthful as him.
راست گویی در نهادش خلقتیستهرچه گوید من نگویم آن تهیست
Truthfulness is a natural disposition in his being;
Whatever he says, I will not say it is groundless.
کژ ندانم آن نکواندیش رامتهم دارم وجود خویش را
I do not deem that well-wisher to be crooked;
I hold my own existence suspect.
باشد او در من ببیند عیبهامن نبینم در وجود خود شها
Perhaps he sees faults in me
Which I do not see in my own being, O King!
هر کسی گر عیب خود دیدی ز پیشکی بدی فارغ وی از اصلاح خویش
If anyone saw his own fault from the first,
How could he be free of reforming himself?
غافل اند این خلق از خود ای پدرلاجرم گویند عیب همدگر
These people are heedless of themselves, O father!
Necessarily they speak of each other's faults.
من نبینم روی خود را ای شمنمن ببینم روی تو تو روی من
I do not see my own face, O idol-worshipper!
I see your face, and you see my face.
آنکسی که او ببیند روی خویشنور او از نور خلقانست بیش
Whoever sees his own face,
His light is greater than the light of created beings.
گر بمیرد دید او باقی بودزانک دیدش دید خلاقی بود
If he dies, his vision will remain,
Because his vision was the vision of the Creator.
نور حسی نبود آن نوری که اوروی خود محسوس بیند پیش رو
That light by which he sensibly sees his own face
Before him is not a sensory light."
گفت اکنون عیبهای او بگوآنچنان که گفت او از عیب تو
The king said, "Now tell me his faults,
Just as he told of your faults,
تا بدانم که تو غمخوار منیکدخدای ملکت و کار منی
So that I may know that you are sympathetic to me,
The administrator of my kingdom and my affairs."
گفت ای شه من بگویم عیبهاشگرچه هست او مر مرا خوش خواجه تاش
He said, "O King, I will tell his faults,
Though he is a sweet fellow-slave to me.
عیب او مهر و وفا و مردمیعیب او صدق و ذکا و همدمی
His fault is affection, loyalty, and humanity;
His fault is sincerity, intelligence, and companionship.
کمترین عیبش جوامردی و دادآن جوامردی که جان را هم بداد
His least fault is generosity and justice,
That generosity that would even give up its life.
صد هزاران جان خدا کرده پدیدچه جوامردی بود کان را ندید
God has brought into being hundreds of thousands of lives:
What generosity would it be if one did not see that?
ور بدیدی کی به جان بخلش بدی؟بهر یک جان کی چنین غمگین شدی؟
And if he saw it, how would he be stingy with a life?
How would he be so grieved for a single life?
بر لب جو بخل آب آن را بودکو ز جوی آب نابینا بود
Stinginess with water on the bank of the stream belongs to him
Who is blind to the stream of water.
گفت پیغامبر که هر که از یقینداند او پاداش خود در یوم دین
The Prophet said that whoever with certainty
Knows his reward on the Day of Judgment,
که یکی را ده عوض می آیدشهر زمان جودی دگرگون زایدش
That for one (given), ten substitutes will come to him,
And every moment a different bounty will be born for him.
جود جمله از عوضها دیدنستپس عوض دیدن ضد ترسیدنست
All generosity is from seeing substitutes (rewards);
Hence, seeing substitutes is the opposite of fearing.
بخل نادیدن بود اعواض راشاد دارد دید در خواض را
Stinginess is the non-seeing of substitutes;
Vision makes the pearl-diver joyful.
پس بعالم هیچ کس نبود بخیلزانک کس چیزی نبازد بی بدیل
Therefore, no one in the world is stingy,
Because no one sacrifices anything without a substitute.
پس سخا از چشم آمد نه ز دستدید دارد کار جز بینا نرست
So generosity comes from the eye, not from the hand;
It is vision that does the work; none but the seer escaped.
عیب دیگر این که خودبین نیست اوهست او در هستی خود عیب جو
Another fault is that he is not self-seeing;
He is a seeker of faults in his own existence.
عیب گوی و عیب جوی خود بدستبا همه نیکو و با خود بد بدست
He is a speaker of faults and a seeker of faults in himself;
He is good to everyone and bad to himself."
گفت شه جلدی مکن در مدح یارمدح خود در ضمن مدح او میار
The king said, "Do not be hasty in praising your friend;
Do not bring your own praise implicitly within his praise.
زانک من در امتحان آرم وراشرمساری آیدت در ماورا
Because I will put him to the test,
And shame will come to you in the end."

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