1Cademy - بخش ۳۱ - مشورت کردن برادران با یکدیگر که چه حیله سازند که یوسف را از پیش پدر دور سازند / Section 31 - The Brothers Consult with One Another About What Ruse They Should Devise to Remove Joseph from His Fathers Presence

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بخش ۳۱ - مشورت کردن برادران با یکدیگر که چه حیله سازند که یوسف را از پیش پدر دور سازند / Section 31 - The Brothers Consult with One Another About What Ruse They Should Devise to Remove Joseph from His Father's Presence

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چو گردد کشته پنهان ماند این راز
ز کشته بر نیاید هرگز آواز

یکی گفت این به بی دینیست راهی
که اندیشیم قتل بی گناهی

اگر اسب جفا رانیم آخر
نه تا کشتن مسلمانیم آخر

غرض زین بقعه بیرون بردن اوست
نه کشتن یا زدن یا بردن اوست

همان به کافکنیمش از پدر دور
به هایل وادیی محروم و مهجور

بیابانی در او جز دام و دد نی
به جز روباه و گرگ از نیک و بد نی

نباشد آب او جز اشک نومید
نباشد نان او جز قرص خورشید

نه در وی سایه ای جز در شب تار
نه در وی بستری جز نشتر خار

چو یکچند اندر او آرام گیرد
به مرگ خویشتن بی شک بمیرد

نگشته تیغ ما رنگین به خونش
رهیم از تیغ نیرنگ و فسونش

دگر یک گفت قتل دیگر است این
چه جای قتل ازان هم بدتر است این

به یکدم زیر خنجر جان سپردن
به است از گرسنه یا تشنه مردن

صواب آنست کاندر دور و نزدیک
طلب داریم چاهی تنگ و تاریک

ز صدر عزت و جاه افکنیمش
به صد خواری در آن چاه افکنیمش

بود کانجا نشیند کاروانی
برآساید در آن منزل زمانی

به چاه اندر کسی دلوی گذارد
به جای آب ازان چاهش برآرد

به فرزندیش گیرد یا غلامی
کند در بردن وی تیزگامی

شود پیوند او زینجا بریده
به وی از ما گزندی نارسیده

چو گفت او قصه چاه پر آسیب
شدند آنان همه بر چه سراشیب

ز غور چاه مکر خود نه آگاه
همه بی ریسمان رفتند در چاه

گرفته با پدر در دل نفاقی
بر آن تزویر کردند اتفاقی

وز آن پس رو به کار خود نهادند
به فردا وعده آن کار دادند

چو آید مشکلی پیش خردمند
کزان مشکل فتد در کار او بند

کند عقل دگر با عقل خود یار
که تا در حل آن گردد مددگار

ز یک شمعش نگیرد نور خانه
فروزد شمع دیگر در میانه

ولی هست این سخن در راست بینان
به صدر راستی بالانشینان

نه در کجرو حریفان کج اندیش
که گردد از دو کجرو کجروی بیش

چو مجلس ساختند اخوان یوسف
برای مشورت در شان یوسف

یکی گفت او ز حسرت خون ما ریخت
به خونریزیش باید حیله انگیخت

ز دشمن ریز خون چون یافتی دست
که از دستش به خونریزی توان رست

English translation

Once he is slain, this secret will remain concealed; No voice will ever rise from one who has been killed.

One said, This is a path to faithlessness: That we should contemplate murdering an innocent.

Even if we spur on the steed of cruelty, We are not, after all, Muslims to the point of killing.

Our aim is to take him away from this place, Not to kill, strike, or abduct him.

It would be better to cast him far away from his father, Into a dreadful valley, deprived and desolate;

A wilderness containing nothing but snares and beasts, With none among good and evil save foxes and wolves.

Let its only water be the tears of despair, And its only bread the disk of the sun.

Let it have no shade except in the dark night, And no bedding except the lancets of thorns.

Once he has remained there for a while, He will undoubtedly die his own death.

Our blades will not have been stained with his blood, And we shall be delivered from the blade of his guile and enchantment.

Another said, This is another kind of murder; Indeed, it is even worse than murder.

To surrender one's life beneath a dagger in an instant Is better than dying of hunger or thirst.

The right course is to search, near and far, For a narrow and dark well.

Let us cast him down from the seat of honor and rank, And throw him into that well with a hundred humiliations.

Perhaps a caravan will stop there And rest for a time at that station.

Someone may lower a bucket into the well And draw him from it instead of water.

He may take him as a son or as a slave And hasten to carry him away.

His bond with this place will then be severed, While no injury from us will have reached him.

When he told the tale of the perilous well, They all inclined headlong toward the well.

Unaware of the depth of the well of their own deceit, They all entered the well without a rope.

Harboring hypocrisy toward their father in their hearts, They agreed upon that deception.

Then they turned to carrying out their plan And appointed the next day for that deed.

When a wise person encounters a difficulty By which his undertaking becomes obstructed,

He makes another intellect the companion of his own So that it may help him resolve the difficulty.

A house receives no light from one candle alone; He kindles another candle in its midst.

But this saying applies to those of upright vision, Those seated in the highest place of rectitude,

Not to crooked companions of crooked thought, For two crooked travelers only increase crookedness.

When Joseph's brothers formed an assembly To consult about Joseph's affair,

One said, Through envy of him, he has shed our blood; We must devise a ruse to shed his blood.

When you gain power, spill the enemy's blood, For through bloodshed you may escape his hand.

Updated 2026-07-18

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