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دفتر دوم - بخش ۴۶ - سبب پریدن و چرخیدن مرغی با مرغی کی جنس او نبود / Book Two - Section 46 - The Reason for a Bird Flying and Circling with a Bird That Was Not of Its Kind

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آن حکیمی گفت دیدم هم تکیدر بیابان زاغ را با لکلکی
A certain sage said: I once saw running together
A crow and a stork in the wilderness.
در عجب ماندم بجستم حالشانتا چه قدر مشترک یابم نشان
I was struck with wonder; I sought to know their condition,
To see what common measure I might find between them.
چون شدم نزدیک من حیران و دنگخود بدیدم هر دوان بودند لنگ
When I drew near, bewildered and dazed,
I saw for myself that both of them were lame.
خاصه شه بازی که او عرشی بودبا یکی جغدی که او فرشی بود
Especially a royal falcon that was of the Throne,
Paired with an owl that was of the earth.
آن یکی خورشید علیین بودوین دگر خفاش کز سجین بود
One was the sun of the highest heavens (ʿilliyyīn),
And the other a bat from the depths of sijjīn.
آن یکی نوری ز هر عیبی بریوین یکی کوری گدای هر دری
One was a light, free of every flaw,
And the other a blind beggar at every door.
آن یکی ماهی که بر پروین زندوین یکی کرمی که در سرگین زید
One was a moon striking against the Pleiades,
And the other a worm living in dung.
آن یکی یوسف رخی عیسی نفسوین یکی گرگی و یا خر با جرس
One had the face of Joseph and the breath of Jesus,
And the other was a wolf, or a bell-laden donkey.
آن یکی پران شده در لامکانوین یکی در کاهدان همچون سگان
One had soared into the Placeless (lā-makān),
And the other lay in the hayloft like dogs.
با زبان معنوی گل با جعلاین همی گوید که ای گنده بغل
In the spiritual tongue, the rose speaks to the dung-beetle,
Saying: "O foul-armpit one,
گر گریزانی ز گلشن بی گمانهست آن نفرت کمال گلستان
If you flee from the rose garden, without doubt
That very revulsion is the perfection of the garden.
غیرت من بر سر تو دورباشمی زند کای خس ازینجا دور باش
My jealous honor strikes a warning over your head:
'O worthless straw, be gone from here!'
ور بیامیزی تو با من ای دنیاین گمان آید که از کان منی
And if you mingle with me, O base one,
The suspicion arises that you are from my mine.
بلبلان را جای می زیبد چمنمر جعل را در چمین خوشتر وطن
The meadow befits nightingales;
For the dung-beetle, dung is a better abode.
حق مرا چون از پلیدی پاک داشتچون سزد بر من پلیدی را گماشت
Since God has kept me pure from filth,
How would it be fitting to assign filth to me?
یک رگم زیشان بد و آن را بریددر من آن بدرگ کجا خواهد رسید
One vein of mine was of their kind, and that was severed—
Where would that evil vein now reach within me?
یک نشان آدم آن بود از ازلکه ملایک سر نهندش از محل
One sign of Adam from eternity was
That the angels bowed their heads to him from their station.
یک نشان دیگر آنک آن بلیسننهدش سر که منم شاه و رئیس
Another sign was that Iblis
Would not bow to him, saying: 'I am the king and chief.'
پس اگر ابلیس هم ساجد شدیاو نبودی آدم او غیری بدی
So if Iblis too had prostrated himself,
He would not have been Adam—he would have been another.
هم سجود هر ملک میزان اوستهم جحود آن عدو برهان اوست
Both the prostration of every angel is his measure,
And the denial of that enemy is his proof.
هم گواه اوست اقرار ملکهم گواه اوست کفران سگک
The acknowledgment of the angel is his witness,
And the ingratitude of that wretch is also his witness.

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