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بخش ۴۳ - در مدح نظام‌الملک ابونصر محمّدبن عبدالحمیدالمستوفی / Section 43 - In Praise of Nizam al-Mulk Abu Nasr Muhammad bin Abdul Hamid al-Mustawfi

متن و ترجمه / Text and Translation

خواجه بونصر نائب دستورچشم بد زان جمال و دانش دور
Khwaja Abu Nasr, the deputy of the minister,
May the evil eye be far from that beauty and wisdom.
خلق او هست بی ریا و نفاقخلق او هست بی خلاف و شقاق
His character is without hypocrisy or pretense,
His character is without conflict or discord.
هم نکو خلق و هم نکو گفتارهم نکو خط و هم نکو دیدار
He is of good character and good speech,
Of fine handwriting and pleasant countenance.
آنچه گوش از کمال خواجه شنیدچشم از او صد هزار چندان دید
Whatever the ear heard of the master's perfection,
The eye beheld a hundred thousand times more of it.
جان و دل را حدیقه و مونسعقل و گل را شمامه و مجلس
He is a garden and companion to the soul and heart,
A perfume and assembly to reason and the rose.
کانچه دارد ز خلق او اطرافآهوی چین ندارد اندر ناف
For whatever fragrance the horizons possess of his character,
The musk-deer of China does not hold in its navel.
روح دیدار و عقل گفتارستدولت ایثار و ملت آثارست
He is the spirit of vision and the intellect of speech,
The wealth of selflessness and the legacy of the nation.
فضل او در زمان چنان فاشستکه ادب بر درش چو فراشست
His merit is so renowned in this age,
That etiquette serves at his door like a chamberlain.
از پی جاه و خدمت سلطاننه برای فلانک و بهمان
For the sake of the Sultan's dignity and service,
And not for this or that insignificant person.
قبلهٔ فاضلان ستانهٔ اوستسرمهٔ عقل گرد خانهٔ اوست
His threshold is the sanctuary of the learned,
The dust of his house is collyrium for the intellect.
مال خود چون خیال بگذاردوآن سلطان چو جان نگه دارد
He lets go of his own wealth like a passing phantom,
But guards that of the Sultan as if it were his own soul.
صورتش ابتدای قوت روحسیرتش انتهای سورهٔ نوح
His form is the beginning of the soul's nourishment,
His character is the pinnacle of the Chapter of Noah.
کرده از بهر حق بکرد و بگفتعادتش عدت وفا را جفت
He has acted and spoken for the sake of the Truth,
His habit is wedded to the preparation of loyalty.
در ره شاکری فریشته وشراست محنت کن است و محنت کش
In the path of gratitude, like an angel,
He is truly a strive-maker and pain-bearer.
پیش او از برای سود و زیانصدهزاران دلست و یک فرمان
Before him, for the sake of profit and loss,
Are a hundred thousand hearts, yet but a single command.
همچو عقل از کی و که و چه و چونفکرتش پی برد درون و برون
Like the intellect, regarding when, who, what, and how,
His contemplation penetrates the inner and the outer.
از پی آفتاب دهرآرایزو برد مشتری اصابت رای
Following the sun that adorns the era,
Jupiter derives from him the rectitude of judgment.
رای او قطب دولت مردانملک و دین گرد رای او گردان
His judgment is the pole-star of the rule of great men,
Kingdom and religion revolve around his counsel.
همچو عقل از ورای چرخ کبوددیده نابوده هرچه خواهد بود
Like the intellect, from beyond the blue sphere,
He has foreseen whatever is yet to be before it exists.
پیش رایش نماند پوشیدهبر فلک هیچ روی پوشیده
Before his judgment, nothing remains hidden,
No veiled face upon the heavens.
فهمش از جام جم نیاید کمکه همه بودنی بدید چو جم
His understanding is not inferior to Jamshid's cup,
For like Jam, he saw all things that are to happen.
دل او از برای به دانیهست مشکات نور ربانی
His heart, for the sake of higher knowledge,
Is the niche of divine light.
اثر لطف او چو آب زلالخاک روب درش اثیر جلال
The trace of his grace is like pure water,
The sweeper of his door is the ether of majesty.
نیست در کارگاه صنع خدایکار بندی چو خواجه کارگشای
There is not, in the workshop of God's creation,
An administrator and problem-solver like the master.
چون سرانگشت او قلم گیردچار طبع عدو الم گیرد
When his fingertip takes up the pen,
The four humors of the enemy are seized with affliction.
عقدی از در کشد ز نوک قلمچون ز سر بر بیاض ساخت قدم
He draws a necklace of pearls from the tip of the pen,
When he steps upon the white paper from its top.
پست بالاست پیش عزش عرشتنگ پهناست پیش فرش فرش
High is low before his glory, even the Throne,
And narrow is the expanse of earth before his carpet.
ابر گریان ز دست و دست گهشصبح خندان ز خاک بوس رهش
The cloud weeps out of envy of his hand and bounty,
The dawn smiles from kissing the dust of his path.
هست در رشک آن کف و گفتارآب دریا و لؤلؤ شهوار
Envious of that hand and speech are
The water of the sea and the royal pearl.
برده آب بهار و آوازه شلب خندان و چهرهٔ تازه ش
His smiling lip and fresh countenance
Have surpassed the luster and fame of spring.
پیش سر خدایگان از هوشهر زمان حلقه ای کند در گوش
In the presence of the masters of secrets, out of wisdom,
Every moment he places a ring of servitude in his ear.
گر فلک نیست کلک او هرگاهاز گریبان چرا برآرد ماه
If his pen is not the celestial sphere,
Why then does it draw forth the moon from its collar?
در یکی فضل او تأمل کنعقل را مال و روح را مل کن
Contemplate but one of his virtues,
Rub the intellect and make the spirit like wine.
تا نبینی به چشم عقل و یقیندر دو خط صد نگارخانهٔ چین
Until you see, with the eye of intellect and certainty,
A hundred picture-galleries of China within two lines of his writing.
درج کرده چو سایه و خورشیددر شب و روز نام بیم و امید
Enclosed like the shadow and the sun,
Within night and day, the names of fear and hope.
از خط او که دنیی و دینستدیده گل بین و عقل گل چینست
Calligraphy which is world and religion,
The eye sees roses and the intellect gathers them.
همتش آسمان و خلق ملکخاطرش آفتاب و کلک فلک
His high resolve is the sky and his nature is angelic,
His mind is the sun and his pen is the celestial sphere.
خط او در هوای گلبن رازپشت طاوس دان و سینهٔ باز
Know his calligraphy in the breeze of the secret rosebush
To be like the peacock's back and the falcon's breast.
زاده از روح کلک و نور یقینشب و روز جهان دولت و دین
Born of the spirit of the pen and the light of certainty,
Are the night and day of the world of state and religion.
زردهٔ عقل زردی خامه شادهم دین سیاهی نامه ش
The yellowness of his reed-pen is the yolk of intellect,
The blackness of his scroll is the dark steed of faith.
هرکرا نیست چون قلم رایشقلم او قلم کند پایش
Whoever has not a judgment like his pen,
His pen will sever his foot.
خط او خط جان اسرافیلکلک او کیل رزق میکائیل
His writing is the line of Israfil's life,
His pen is the measure of Michael's sustenance.
صورت خط او که در نامه ستچون نسیم بهارخوش جامه ست
The form of his writing that is in the letter,
Is well-dressed like the spring breeze.
کلک او همچو نوک دیده کشانخط او همچو غمزه های خوشان
His pen is like the tip of the eye-liners of beauties,
His writing is like the coquettish glances of the beautiful.
شحنهٔ راه دین صلابت اوروح قدسی کمین مثابت او
The guardian of the path of religion is his firmness,
The Holy Spirit is the lowest of his stations.
نیست پوشیده زو قلیل و کثیرنز نقیر ایچ چیز و نز قطمیر
Neither little nor much is hidden from him,
Not a single speck nor a date-stone's groove.
جاه او همچو ماه ملک نگارکلک او همچو تیغ کارگذار
His stature is like the moon that adorns the kingdom,
His pen is like an effective sword.
به امان و به خلق حور و پریدر تباشیر بشر او بشری
In safety and in the character of houris and fairies,
In the good tidings of humanity, he is a true human.
برده بیخ سخاش تا عیوقمیوه و برگ و شاخ و نرد و عروق
The root of his generosity has reached Capella,
Along with its fruit, leaves, branches, stems, and veins.
طیب ذکرش غذای روح ملکطول عمرش مدار دور فلک
The fragrance of his remembrance is the food of the angel's spirit,
The length of his life is the orbit of the heavens' rotation.
باد امرش چو امر روح ملکباد عمرش چو عمر نوح و لمک
May his command be like the command of the angel of spirit,
May his life be like the life of Noah and Lamech.
عقل با وی نشسته در مکتبعلم از وی گرفته علم و ادب
Reason sat with him in school,
Knowledge acquired science and etiquette from him.
روح بر مرکب عنایت اوستعقل در مکتب هدایت اوست
The spirit is mounted on the steed of his favor,
Reason is in the school of his guidance.
به گه ضبط مال و عقد حسیبساحران را زند به علم آسیب
At the time of securing wealth and calculating accounts,
He strikes magicians with his knowledge.
کرده از بر به قدرت خلاقحاجت آید مطالعت به کتاب
And should there be need to study a book,
By the Creator's power, he has committed it to memory.
او ز حالی که شاه از او جویدهمه از بر به جمله برگوید
Whatever condition or matter the King seeks from him,
He recites it all entirely from memory.
ملک عالم برش معاینه شددل او بر مثال آینه شد
The kingdom of the world was clearly visible to him,
His heart became like a mirror.
حبذا رای روشن و پاکشکه فلک گشت تختهٔ خاکش
How wonderful is his bright and pure judgment,
For which the sky became a writing tablet of dust!
خامه اندر بنان او گه سیربگشاید به خلق بر در خیر
The reed-pen in his fingers, during its movement,
Opens the door of goodness to the creation.
بر سر انگشت وی چو گشت سوارآن لطیف نحیف زرد و نزار
When that delicate, slender, yellow, and thin reed-pen
Becomes mounted upon his fingertip,
دوستان را کند دو رخ چون لعلدشمنان را کند سیاه چو نعل
It turns the two cheeks of friends ruby-red,
And makes the enemies black as a horseshoe.
انده دشمن است و شادی دوستخیر و شر بسته در زبانهٔ اوست
The sorrow of the enemy and the joy of the friend,
Good and evil are bound up in its tongue.
شب آبستنست خامهٔ اوگشت مضمر ز فتح نامهٔ او
His pen is like a pregnant night,
From which victory letters became concealed.
زان زبان سیاه و شخص سپیدگشته دشمن ز جان خود نومید
From that black tongue and white body of the pen,
The enemy has become hopeless of his own life.
تن سپید و سیاه منقارشهمه ساله غذا شده قارش
Its body is white and its beak is black,
All year round its food has been ink.
در شود هر زمان به بحر سیاهبرکشد در ز بهر تاج و کلاه

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