1Cademy - بخش ۱۳۵ - در مذمت آنان که همت ایشان بتمام مصروف شراب است و طعام / Section 135 - On the Condemnation of Those Whose Ambition is Entirely Devoted to Wine and Food

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Haft Awrang

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بخش ۱۳۵ - در مذمت آنان که همت ایشان بتمام مصروف شراب است و طعام / Section 135 - On the Condemnation of Those Whose Ambition is Entirely Devoted to Wine and Food

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خواجه را بین که از سحر تا شام
دارد اندیشه شراب و طعام

شکم از خوشدلی و خوشحالی
گاه پر می کند گهی خالی

فارغ از خلد و ایمن از دوزخ
جای او مزبله ست یا مطبخ

کار او بهر نفس پروردن
روز و شب ریدن است و یا خوردن

معده فاسد ز اشتهای دروغ
می دهد تیز و می زند آروغ

زین دو باد عفن ز طبع کثیف
داد بر باد نقد عمر شریف

بس که زد معده بر دماغش دود
روزن عقل شد بر او مسدود

شهرت بطن کان بود بطنه
تذهب بالذکاء و الفطنه

چون شود پر ز نان و آب شکم
گردد از سینه علم و دانش کم

خود چه دانش بود در آن سینه
که بود جای شهوت و کینه

ور بود دانشی ز جهل کم است
زانکه از بهر فرج یا شکم است

دانش خویش را چو خرج کند
بهر شهوات بطن و فرج کند

هر که را بنگری ز دشمن و دوست
قیمت او به قدر همت اوست

هر که را همت آن بود که مدام
رودش در درون شراب و طعام

قیمت او اگر بیفزاید
آن بود کز درون برون آید

چه ازین زشتتر بود به جهان
که طفیل شکم کنی دل و جان

دل و جان بهر آب و نان خواهی
عقل و دین بهر انی و آن کاهی

همت تو همه شکم باشد
هر چه غیر از شکم عدم باشد

English translation

See the master, who from dawn to dusk Has only thoughts of wine and food. With joy and merriment, his belly He sometimes fills, and sometimes empties. Oblivious to Paradise and secure from Hell, His place is either the dunghill or the kitchen. His business, for the sake of nurturing his carnal self, Is day and night either defecating or eating. A corrupt stomach, from a false appetite, Passes foul wind and lets out a burp. With these two rancid winds from a filthy nature, He has cast the precious cash of his noble life to the wind. So much has the stomach sent smoke to his brain That the window of intellect has been closed to him. Gluttony of the belly, which is overindulgence, Removes sagacity and intelligence. When the belly is filled with bread and water, Knowledge and wisdom are diminished from the breast. Indeed, what knowledge can be in that breast Which is the dwelling place of lust and malice? And if there is any knowledge, it is less than ignorance, For it is acquired only for the sake of the genitals or the stomach. When he spends his knowledge, He expends it for the lusts of the belly and the genitals. Whomever you look upon, whether enemy or friend, Their worth is according to the measure of their ambition. Whoever's ambition is that constantly Wine and food should enter their body, Their value, should it increase, Is only that which comes out from within them. What is uglier in the world than this: To make the heart and soul a parasite of the stomach? You desire heart and soul only for water and bread; You diminish intellect and faith for the sake of this and that. Your ambition is entirely the stomach; Whatever is other than the stomach is non-existent to you.

Updated 2026-07-07

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