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دفتر دوم - بخش ۳۱ - ظاهر شدن فضل و زیرکی لقمان پیش امتحان کنندگان / Book Two - Section 31 - The Manifestation of Luqman's Excellence and Cleverness Before Those Who Test Him

متن و ترجمه / Text and Translation

هر طعامی کآوریدندی به ویکس سوی لقمان فرستادی ز پی
Whenever they brought any food to him (the master),
He would send someone after Luqman,
تا که لقمان دست سوی آن بردقاصدا تا خواجه پس خوردش خورد
So that Luqman would reach his hand towards it,
Intentionally, so that the master could eat his leftovers.
سؤر او خوردی و شور انگیختیهر طعامی کو نخوردی ریختی
He would eat his leftover and raise a commotion,
Any food that he did not eat, he would throw away.
ور بخوردی بی دل و بی اشتهااین بود پیوندی بی انتها
Or if he ate it without heart and without appetite,
This is an endless connection.
خربزه آورده بودند ارمغانگفت رو فرزند لقمان را بخوان
They had brought a melon as a gift,
He said, 'Go and call my son Luqman.'
چون برید و داد او را یک برینهمچو شکر خوردش و چون انگبین
When he cut it and gave him a slice,
He ate it like sugar and like honey.
از خوشی که خورد داد او را دومتا رسید آن گرچها تا هفدهم
From the pleasure with which he ate, he gave him a second one,
Until those slices reached seventeen.
ماند گرچی گفت این را من خورمتا چه شیرین خربزه ست این بنگرم
One slice remained; he said, 'I will eat this one,
To see how sweet a melon this is!'
او چنین خوش می خورد کز ذوق اوطبعها شد مشتهی و لقمه جو
He was eating it so pleasantly that from his delight,
Natures became desirous and seeking a morsel.
چون بخورد از تلخیش آتش فروختهم زبان کرد آبله هم حلق سوخت
When he ate it, its bitterness ignited a fire,
It both blistered his tongue and burned his throat.
ساعتی بی خود شد از تلخی آنبعد از آن گفتش که ای جان و جهان
For an hour he became unconscious from its bitterness,
After that he said to him, 'O my soul and the world!
نوش چون کردی تو چندین زهر رالطف چون انگاشتی این قهر را
How did you drink so much poison?
How did you consider this wrath as grace?
این چه صبرست این صبوری ازچه روستیا مگر پیش تو این جانت عدوست
What patience is this? From what motive is this patience?
Or perhaps your life is an enemy to you?
چون نیاوردی به حیلت حجتیکه مرا عذریست بس کن ساعتی
Why didn't you bring a pretext with some trickery,
Saying, I have an excuse, stop for a while?'
گفت من از دست نعمت بخش توخورده ام چندان که از شرمم دوتو
He said, 'From your bounty-giving hand,
I have eaten so much that I am bent double with shame.
شرمم آمد که یکی تلخ از کفتمن ننوشم ای تو صاحب معرفت
I was ashamed that one bitter thing from your hand,
I should not drink, O you possessing knowledge!
چون همه اجزام از انعام تورسته اند و غرق دانه و دام تو
Since all my parts from your bounties,
Have grown and are drowned in your bait and snare.
گر ز یک تلخی کنم فریاد و دادخاک صد ره بر سر اجزام باد
If I cry out and complain from one bitterness,
May the dust of a hundred paths be on the head of my parts!
لذت دست شکربخشت بداشتاندرین بطیخ تلخی کی گذاشت
The pleasure of your sugar-bestowing hand kept it;
When did it leave any bitterness in this melon?
از محبت تلخها شیرین شوداز محبت مسها زرین شود
From love, bitter things become sweet;
From love, pieces of copper become golden.
از محبت دردها صافی شوداز محبت دردها شافی شود
From love, dregs become clear;
From love, pains become healing.
از محبت مرده زنده می کننداز محبت شاه بنده می کنند
From love, they bring the dead to life;
From love, they make the king a slave.
این محبت هم نتیجهٔ دانشستکی گزافه بر چنین تختی نشست
This love is also the result of knowledge;
When did anyone sit on such a throne by absurdity?
دانش ناقص کجا این عشق زادعشق زاید ناقص اما بر جماد
How can deficient knowledge give birth to this love?
Deficient knowledge gives birth to love, but for inanimate objects.
بر جمادی رنگ مطلوبی چو دیداز صفیری بانگ محبوبی شنید
When it saw a desired color on an inanimate object,
It heard the voice of a beloved from a whistling sound.
دانش ناقص نداند فرق رالاجرم خورشید داند برق را
Deficient knowledge does not know the difference,
Therefore, it considers lightning to be the sun.
چونک ملعون خواند ناقص را رسولبود در تاویل نقصان عقول
Since the Messenger called the deficient one accursed,
It was in the interpretation of the deficiency of intellects.
زانک ناقص تن بود مرحوم رحمنیست بر مرحوم لایق لعن و زخم
Because one deficient in body is the recipient of mercy;
Curses and wounds are not fitting for one who is shown mercy.
نقص عقلست آن که بد رنجوریستموجب لعنت سزای دوریست
It is the deficiency of intellect that is a bad disease,
The cause of a curse, deserving of distance.
زانک تکمیل خردها دور نیستلیک تکمیل بدن مقدور نیست
Because the perfection of intellects is not remote,
But the perfection of the body is not possible.
کفر و فرعونی هر گبر بعیدجمله از نقصان عقل آمد پدید
The disbelief and Pharaoh-like arrogance of every distant infidel,
All became apparent from the deficiency of intellect.
بهر نقصان بدن آمد فرجدر نبی که ما علی الاعمی حرج
For the deficiency of the body, relief came,
In the revelation: There is no blame upon the blind.
برق آفل باشد و بس بی وفاآفل از باقی ندانی بی صفا
Lightning is transient and very unfaithful;
You, lacking purity, do not know the transient from the everlasting.
برق خندد بر کی می خندد بگوبر کسی که دل نهد بر نور او
Lightning smiles; tell me, at whom does it smile?
At someone who sets his heart on its light.
نورهای چرخ ببریده پیستآن چو لا شرقی و لا غربی کیست
The lights of the sky have their traces cut off;
Who is like that which is neither of the East nor of the West?
برق را خو یخطف الابصار داننور باقی را همه انصار دان
Know that the nature of lightning is it snatches away sights;
Know the everlasting light to be all helpers.
بر کف دریا فرس را راندننامه ای در نور برقی خواندن
Driving a horse on the foam of the sea,
Reading a letter in the light of lightning,
از حریصی عاقبت نادیدنستبر دل و بر عقل خود خندیدنست
Comes from greed and not seeing the end;
It is laughing at one's own heart and intellect.
عاقبت بینست عقل از خاصیتنفس باشد کو نبیند عاقبت
By its property, intellect sees the end;
It is the ego that does not see the end.
عقل کو مغلوب نفس، او نفس شدمشتری مات زحل شد نحس شد
The intellect that is defeated by the ego, it became ego;
Jupiter was checkmated by Saturn and became inauspicious.
هم درین نحسی بگردان این نظردر کسی که کرد نحست در نگر
Even in this inauspiciousness, turn your gaze;
Look at the One who made you inauspicious.
آن نظر که بنگرد این جر و مداو ز نحسی سوی سعدی نقب زد
That gaze which looks at this ebb and flow,
It has dug a tunnel from inauspiciousness towards auspiciousness.
زان همی گرداندت حالی به حالضد به ضد پیداکنان در انتقال
For that reason He keeps turning you from state to state,
Revealing opposite by opposite in the transition,
تا که خوفت زاید از ذات الشماللذت ذات الیمین یرجی الرجال
So that fear may be born in you from the left side,
The pleasure of the right side is what men hope for.
تا دو پر باشی که مرغ یک پرهعاجز آید از پریدن ای سره
So that you may have two wings, for a one-winged bird
Is incapable of flying, O excellent one!
یا رها کن تا نیایم در کلامیا بده دستور تا گویم تمام
Either let me go so I may not enter into speech,
Or give me permission to speak fully.
ورنه این خواهی نه آن فرمان تراستکس چه داند مر ترا مقصد کجاست
If you want neither this nor that, the command is Yours;
Who knows where Your destination is?
جان ابراهیم باید تا به نوربیند اندر نار فردوس و قصور
The soul of Abraham is needed so that by the light,
He may see paradise and palaces within the fire.
پایه پایه بر رود بر ماه و خورتا نماند همچو حلقه بند در
He ascends step by step above the moon and the sun,
So that he may not remain bound to the door like a ring.
چون خلیل از آسمان هفتمینبگذرد که لا احب الافلین
When the Friend passes beyond the seventh heaven,
Saying, I love not those that set.
این جهان تن غلط انداز شدجز مر آن را کو ز شهوت باز شد
This world of the body has become a thrower into error,
Except for the one who has held back from lust.

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