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

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بخش ۷ - فی مثالب شعراء المدّعین / Section 7 - On the Vices of the Pretentious Poets

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چون ستودی بسی عدولان را
سخنی گوی بوالفضولان را

آنکه بی آلتند و بی مایه
همه عریان چو کیر بی خایه

یا طلبکار زرق و تزویرند
یا جهان را به حسبه می گیرند

شعر برده به گازر و جولاه
خواسته زو بهای کفش و کلاه

همچو خلقانیان کهن پیرای
کرده یک شعر را دو گرده بهای

همچو سگ در به در به دریوزه
خوانده مر زهر را شکر بوزه

مدح شاهان به عامیان برده
دیو را هوش خویش بسپرده

یک رمه ناحفاظ و نابینا
در عبارت فرخچ و نازیبا

جای خلخال تاج بنهاده
شعرشان همچو ریششان ساده

هیچ نشناخته معانی را
بد زبانی ز خوش زبانی را

تابه از آفتابه نشناسند
شکل چرخ از ذوابه نشناسند

نزد ایشان کراسه با کاسه
هست یکسان چو تاس با تاسه

شاه را مدحت امیر برند
میر را در علو به تیر برند

عامیان را خدایگان خوانند
مهتران را به پاسبان خوانند

مدح و ذم نزدشان چو یکسانست
کس زنشان چو خانه ویرانست

همه محتاج لقمهٔ نانند
همه بی آلتند و حیرانند

همه ناشسته روی و منحوسند
همه تطفیل خوی و جاسوسند

همه با روی و طلعت شومند
زان همه ساله خوار و محرومند

بی زبانی ورا زبانی کرد
آلت خویش بی زبانی کرد

English translation

Since you have praised many righteous people, Now say a word about the meddling fools. Those who are without ability and without substance, All naked like a penis without testicles. Either they are seekers of hypocrisy and deceit, Or they attempt to take the world by self-appointed religious policing. They carry poetry to the washerman and the weaver, Demanding from them the price of shoes and hats. Like old clothes menders who patch worn rags, They make a single poem worth the price of two loaves of bread. Like a dog begging from door to door, They call poison 'sweet drink.' They take the praises of kings to commoners, And surrender their intellect to the devil. A herd of unfaithful and blind ones, Whose expressions are clumsy and ungraceful. They put a crown in the place of an ankle-bracelet, Their poetry is as plain as their beards. They have not understood meanings at all, Failing to distinguish foul language from pleasant speech. They do not know a frying pan from an ewer, Nor the shape of the celestial sphere from a lock of hair. To them, a bound book is the same as a bowl, And a metal cup is identical to a sigh of grief. They carry praises meant for the king to an emir, And raise an emir high up to the heavens with arrows of praise. They call commoners 'lords,' And refer to great leaders as gatekeepers. Praise and blame are identical in their eyes, And their dignity is like a ruined house. They are all in need of a morsel of bread, They are all powerless and bewildered. They are all unwashed of face and ill-omened, They are all parasitical in nature and spies. They all have an unlucky face and appearance, Therefore they are despised and deprived year-round. Their dumbness became their eloquence, And they made their silence their instrument.

Updated 2026-07-03

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