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حدیقة الحقیقه و شریعة الطریقه / Hadiqat al-Haqiqah (The Walled Garden of Truth)

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بخش ۶۲ - حکایت / Section 62 - A Tale

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بود در شهر بلخ بقالی
بی کران داشت در دکان مالی

ز اهل حرفت فراشته گردن
چابک اندر معاملت کردن

هم شکر داشت هم گل خوردن
عسل و خردل و خل اندر دن

ابلهی رفت تا شکر بخرد
چونکه بخرید سوی خانه برد

مرد بقال را بداد درم
گفت شکر مرا بده به کرم

برد بقال دست زی میزان
تا دهد شکر و برد فرمان

در ترازو ندید صدگان سنگ
گشت دلتنگ از آن و کرد آهنگ

مرد بقال در ترازوی خویش
سنگ صدگان نهاد از کم و بیش

کرد از گل ترازو را پاسنگ
تا شکر بدهدش مقابل سنگ

مرد ابله مگر که گل خوردی
تن و جان را فدای گل کردی

از ترازو گلک همی دزدید
مرد بقال نرم می خندید

گفت مسکین خبر نمی دارد
کین زیانست و سود پندارد

هرچه گل کم کند همی زین سر
شکرش کم شود سری دیگر

مردمان جهان همه زین سان
گشته از بهر سود جفت زیان

خویشتن را به باد بر داده
آن جهان را بدین جهان داده

English translation

There was a grocer in the city of Balkh, Who had boundless wealth in his shop. He held his head high among the tradesmen, Nimble in conducting business. He had both sugar and edible clay, Honey, mustard, and vinegar in the jar. A fool went to buy sugar, So that when he bought it, he might take it home. He gave dirhams to the grocer, Saying, 'Give me my sugar with generosity.' The grocer reached out for the scale, To give the sugar and fulfill the order. He did not see the hundred-unit weight by the scale, He became distressed by that and made a plan. The grocer, in his own scale, Placed a hundred-unit weight, more or less; He made a counterweight for the scale out of clay, To give him sugar equivalent to the weight. The foolish man happened to be a clay-eater, Who would sacrifice body and soul for clay. He stealthily kept stealing clay from the scale, While the grocer was softly laughing. He said, 'The wretched man is unaware, That this is a loss, yet he considers it a gain. Whatever amount of clay he reduces from this side, His sugar will be reduced on the other side.' The people of the world are all like this, For the sake of profit, they have coupled with loss. Having thrown themselves to the wind, Having traded the next world for this world.

Updated 2026-07-03

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