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بخش ۱ - یمدح السلطان الاعظم مالک رقاب الامم سلطان سلاطین العالم یمین الدّولة و امین الملّة کهف الإسلام و المسلمین ابا الحارث بهرامشاه‌بن مسعود نوّر اللّٰه مضجعه / Section 1 - He Praises the Greatest Sultan, Master of the Necks of Nations, Sultan of the Sultans of the World, Right Hand of the State and Trustee of the Religion, Cave of Islam and Muslims, Abu al-Harith Bahramshah bin Mas'ud, May Allah Illuminate His Resting Place

متن و ترجمه / Text and Translation

ای سنایی به گرد رضوان پویدر آن از ثنای سلطان جوی
O Sanai, run around Rizwan (paradise),
In it, seek the praise of the Sultan.
شاه بهرامشاه مسعود آنکه به حق اوست پادشاه جهان
King Bahramshah Mas'ud, that one
Who rightfully is the king of the world.
ای سنایی کم سنایی گیربا ثنای شه آشنایی گیر
O Sanai, take on a little radiance,
Become acquainted with the praise of the king.
کانکه گوید به مدح او سخنیچون صدف پرگهر کند دهنی
For whoever speaks a word in his praise,
Makes his mouth like a pearl-filled shell.
نام او گر کند به کام گذرراست چون گل شود دهان پر زر
If his name passes by the palate,
The mouth becomes exactly full of gold like a rose.
بر درش گر کسی مقام کندعقل کلی بر او سلام کند
If someone resides at his door,
The Universal Intellect greets him.
در آن جان که مدح او گویدجان آن دل گل بقا بوید
In the soul that speaks his praise,
The heart of that soul smells the rose of eternity.
همچو گل چون ز جودش آری نامریزهٔ زر شود سخن در کام
Like a rose, when you bring his name from his generosity,
Speech becomes bits of gold in the mouth.
همچو هدهد کنم زمین پر بوستا مرا مرغ گیرد از سالوس
Like a hoopoe, I make the earth full of kisses (I kiss the ground),
So that the bird may take me from hypocrisy.
دوست گل را نه رایگان داردکو زر و سیم در دهان دارد
The friend does not hold the rose for free,
For it holds gold and silver in its mouth.
همچو گل تازه روی و خوش بویستپشت و رویش ببین همه رویست
Like a rose, he has a fresh face and a pleasant scent,
Look at his back and front, it is all face.
از پی عدل شاه شاخ چمنگل عمامه است و چرخ پیراهن
For the sake of the king's justice, the branch of the meadow,
The rose is the turban and the sky is the shirt.
از پی ملک چرخ در تدبیرماه حکمست و آفتاب ضمیر
For the sake of the kingdom, the sky is in management,
The moon is the decree and the sun is the mind.
هست بر رای روشنش جاویدهمه پنهان چرخ چون خورشید
Upon his bright thought is eternally,
All the hidden things of the sky like the sun.
چرخ تمکین کنست پایش راشرع تلقین کنست رایش را
The sky gives dignity to his foundation,
The religious law gives instruction to his opinion.
کرده یکسان به جد و حشمت خودصفحهٔ تیغ و صفحهٔ کاغذ
He has made equal by his effort and majesty,
The page of the sword and the page of paper.
ملک را جزم و عزم او جوشنراز چون روز پیش او روشن
His determination and resolution are the armor for the kingdom,
The secret is bright before him like the day.
زآنکه سلطان عادل اعظمملک و دین را چو کرد با هم ضم
Because the great just Sultan,
When he joined the kingdom and religion together,
کرد از آن نیزهٔ زبان باریکدیدهٔ عمر دشمنان تاریک
From that, he made the spear of the tongue thin,
And darkened the eye of the life of the enemies.
گر فرستد به روم نامهٔ خویشتو نبینی به روم یک بد کیش
If he sends his letter to Rome,
You will not see a single person of bad faith in Rome.
چرخ را جود او گدای کندبوم را فر او همای کند
His generosity makes the sky a beggar,
His glory makes the owl a huma (auspicious bird).
ملک او نقشبند عدل و یقینکلک او خامه دار معنی و دین
His kingdom is the painter of justice and certainty,
His pen is the holder of the pen of meaning and religion.
تیغ در دست پادشاه جهانهم فلک رنگ و هم ملک فرمان
The sword in the hand of the king of the world,
Is both the color of the sky and the command of the angel.
راز چون آشکار نزدیکشزان دل دوربین باریکش
The secret is like the manifest near him,
From that far-seeing, precise heart.
چون خرد صدهزار گونه ش رایهمچو جان در دو عالم او را جای
Since wisdom has a hundred thousand kinds of opinions of him,
Like the soul, his place is in the two worlds.
چون علی هم شجاع و هم عالمنه چو حجاج باغی و ظالم
Like Ali, he is both brave and a scholar,
Not like Hajjaj, a rebel and oppressor.
رای او چون شهاب ثاقب دانروی او تختهٔ مناقب دان
Consider his opinion like a piercing meteor,
Consider his face as the board of virtues.
منظر و مخبرش لطیف و بدیعصورت و سیرتش ظریف و رفیع
His appearance and inner self are subtle and novel,
His form and character are elegant and elevated.
هر شهی کو ز جاه بر ماهستبندهٔ خاک درگه شاهست
Every king who has status over the moon,
Is the servant of the dust of the king's threshold.
ملک او پای بند دشمن اوستکلک او دستیار با تن اوست
His kingdom is the fetter on the foot of his enemy,
His pen is the assistant to his body.
همه چشمش به روی محرومانهمه گوشش به سوی مظلومان
All his eyes are towards the faces of the deprived,
All his ears are towards the oppressed.
شاه ما گر نشاط صید کندعزم او پای گور قید کند
If our king engages in the joy of hunting,
His determination binds the foot of the onager.
دشمنش دل نهاد بر کم دلبی بها رایگان خورد غم دل
His enemy set his heart on a cowardly heart,
He suffers the sorrow of the heart for free, without a price.
صورت سهمش ار کمین سازدز آسمان عدو زمین سازد
If the form of his terror sets an ambush,
It makes the enemy from the sky into the earth.
آن کسانی که در سرای غمانمانده بودند بی سر و سامان
Those people who in the house of sorrows,
Had remained without head and provision.
ذلت و غربت و مهانت چرخمی کشیدند از خیانت چرخ
The abasement and exile and insult of the sky,
They were enduring from the treachery of the sky.
چون بدین بارگاه پیوستنداز غریبی و غبن و غم رستند
When they joined this court,
They escaped from strangeness, deception, and sorrow.
بست از بهر قدر خرمن برخبر گریبان روز دامن چرخ
For the sake of power, he tied a portion of the harvest,
On the collar of the day, the skirt of the sky.
شب او گرچه مستمند بوداز پی روز پای بند بود
His night, although it was sorrowful,
From following the day, was a fetter.
خسرو شرق شاه بهرامستکه بدو تند مملکت رامست
The Khusraw of the East is King Bahram,
To whom the fierce kingdom is tame.
صبح ملکش چو بر دمید از شرقجز ثبات و بقا ندید از شرق
When the morning of his kingdom dawned from the East,
It saw nothing but stability and eternity from the East.
در رخ خسرو خردمندانخنده ای کرد بی لب و دندان
In the face of the Khusraw of the wise,
It laughed without lips and teeth.
ماه نو بود روی فرح اویخنده زد زان سپهر در رخ اوی
The new moon was the face of his joy,
The sky laughed from that at his face.
صبح و مه زین سبب فزاینده ستملک او زین دو روی پاینده ست
The morning and moon are increasing for this reason,
His kingdom is lasting from these two faces.
نه که چون آفتاب رخشانستنعل اسبش چو مه در افشانست
Not only is he shining like the sun,
The horseshoe of his horse is pearl-scattering like the moon.
رای او همچو دین جهان آرایوهم او همچو مه فلک پیمای
His opinion is like the world-adorning religion,
His illusion is like the sky-traversing moon.
عزم او تیزرو بسان قضاحزم او دوربین تر از زرقا
His determination is swift-moving like destiny,
His prudence is more far-seeing than Zarqa (blue-eyed woman of Yamama).
پیش عدلش میان خلق جهانظلم گشتست عدل نوشروان
Before his justice among the creation of the world,
Oppression has become the justice of Anushirvan.
تن او چون قمر فلک پیمایجانش چون مشتری همایون رای
His body is like the sky-traversing moon,
His soul is like Jupiter with auspicious opinion.
بر کشندهٔ فگندگانست اوکارفرمای بندگانست او
He is the elevator of the fallen,
He is the taskmaster of the servants.
از پی گفت و کرد دون و ظریفگوش و چشمش شده چو عقل شریف
For the sake of the speech and action of the base and the elegant,
His ear and eye have become like the noble intellect.
خصم شد کور چون خرد نگریستملک خندید چون قلم بگریست
The adversary became blind when wisdom looked,
The kingdom laughed when the pen wept.
دون که او را زمان گرفت زبونتیغ سلطان برو بگرید خون
The base whom time took as abased,
The sword of the Sultan wept blood upon him.
تیغ را بر عدو چنین کرمستبر ولی فضل شاه ازو چه کمست
Such is the generosity of the sword upon the enemy,
Upon the friend, what is less of the king's grace from it?
هرکه یکدم نشست بر خوانشعقل برخاست از پی جانش
Whoever sat at his table for one breath,
Intellect arose for the sake of his life.
از شمر آب هرکسی ببردچون به دریا رسد کسش نخورد
He cuts off the water of anyone from the pool,
When he reaches the sea, no one consumes it.
تا بجویست اگرچه خاین نیستزآب جوی آب جوی ایمن نیست
As long as he is in the stream, although he is not treacherous,
The water of the stream is not safe from the water of the stream.
چون به دریا رسد ز جوی و ز دشتماغ هم گرد او نیارد گشت
When he reaches the sea from the stream and the plain,
Even the cormorant cannot circle around him.
گه غریب ارچه ذوفنون باشدهم به دست جهان زبون باشد
Sometimes the stranger, although he is a master of arts,
Is also abased by the hand of the world.
خشک و زارا که کشت زار بودهرکجا غول غوله دار بود
The dry place and the field that was a sown field,
Wherever there was a ghoul, it was full of ghouls.
اهل غزنین کنون برآسودندوز زیانی که بود بر سودند
The people of Ghaznin have now rested,
And from the loss that was, they have profited.
هرکه در دولت تو پیوستنداز غریبی و غبن و غم رستند
Whoever joined your state,
Escaped from strangeness, deception, and sorrow.
هرکه از بهر شاه رنج کشیدرنج او سوی خانه گنج کشید
Whoever suffered hardship for the sake of the king,
His hardship brought treasure to his house.
پس تو چون آفتاب شاه آثاردر افق گم شود سلیمان وار
Then you, like the sun, O king of monuments,
Will be lost in the horizon like Solomon.
شاه کو تاج پر گهر جویدگهر تیغ را به خون شوید
The king who seeks the pearl-filled crown,
Washes the pearl of the sword in blood.
بر در قصر شاه دین پروراز پی نام و ننگ و کسب هنر
At the door of the palace of the religion-nurturing king,
For the sake of name and honor and the acquisition of art.

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