1Cademy - بخش ۱۸ - دلالت کردن بزرگان بنی عامر پدر مجنون را به آنکه یکی از معشوقان قبیله عرب را به نکاح مجنون درآرد تا آتش سودای او فرو نشیند / Section 18 - The Nobles of Banu Amir Guiding Majnuns Father to Wed to Majnun One of the Beloved Women of the Arab Tribe, So That the Fire of His Passion Might Subside

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بخش ۱۸ - دلالت کردن بزرگان بنی عامر پدر مجنون را به آنکه یکی از معشوقان قبیله عرب را به نکاح مجنون درآرد تا آتش سودای او فرو نشیند / Section 18 - The Nobles of Banu Amir Guiding Majnun's Father to Wed to Majnun One of the Beloved Women of the Arab Tribe, So That the Fire of His Passion Might Subside

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چون قیس دریده جیب و دامان
از پند پدر نشد به سامان

اعیان قبیله پیش آن پیر
گفتند به حسن راء/ی و تدبیر

کای عامری فلک عماری
معموری ملک کامگاری

فرزند تو نور دیده ماست
آرام دل رمیده ماست

چشم و دل ما به اوست روشن
آب و گل ما ازوست روشن

بر آتش مهر او سپندیم
تا چند بر آتشش پسندیم

چون عشق و وفاست در سرشتش
این واقعه گشت سرنوشتش

آن را که فتد چنین بلایی
گر زانکه طلب کند دوایی

شرط است ره سفر گرفتن
یا مهر بتی دگر گرفتن

خرد است و زو سفر نیاید
وز عهده آن به در نیاید

آن به که پریرخی بجویی
مشهور جهان به خوبرویی

در عقد و نکاح وی در آری
همت به صلاح او گماری

باشد گیرد بدو تسلی
فارغ شود از هوای لیلی

در خدمت آن میان ببندد
وز قصه این زبان ببندد

این نکته ز صاحبان تدبیر
افتاد پسند خاطر پیر

بگشاد زبان و قیس را خواند
پیش نظرش به لطف بنشاند

گفت ای ز تو بخت من خجسته
در دیده چو مردمم نشسته

چشمم به شمایل تو بیناست
وز پشتی توست پشت من راست

طبعم به تو شاد و سینه خرم
حالم ز جدایی تو درهم

تا چند ز خانه فرد باشی
تنها رو و هرزه گرد باشی

یکچند به سوی خانه باز آی
چون مرغ به آشیانه باز آی

ور نیست به خانه ات قراری
همخانه کنم تو را نگاری

تا صحبت تو به ناز دارد
وز هرزه رویت باز دارد

گاهی که قدم نهی به خانه
بوسد قدمت چو آستانه

ور سوی برون شوی خرامان
در پای تو سر نهد چو دامان

عم تو که هست نقطه غم
از صفحه روزگار او کم

در پرده یکی نگار دارد
کز مه به جمال عار دارد

صافی بدنی چو در مکنون
از حقه تنگ وصف بیرون

همشیره شهد شکر او
همخوابه ناز عبهر او

هر دم به جهان فکنده پرتو
از قامت او قیامتی نو

آوازه او به هر دیاری
آواره او چو تو هزاری

بیرون ز حساب عقل مالش
وز مال بسی فزون جمالش

در افسر جاه همسر توست
در اصل و نسب برابر توست

بر دامن تو نه ننگی از وی
بر شیشه تو نه سنگی از وی

حیف است چنین دو گوهر پاک
ناگشته به وصل هم طربناک

خواهم که شود قرینه تو
خشنود به مهر و کینه تو

گردد به تو جلوه گر ز یک سلک
نا سفته درش شود تو را ملک

باشید به هم چو جان و دل دوست
بادام صفت دو مغز و یک پوست

گردید به هم رفیق و دمساز
نی نیش حسود و زخم غماز

چون قیس شنید این سخن را
بگشاد لب شکرشکن را

هم از مژه هم ز لب گهر سفت
افشاند سرشک و با پدر گفت

کای اصل وجود و گوهر من
خاک قدم تو افسر من

گل کرده توست آب و خاکم
پرورده توست جان پاکم

من عیسی مریمم درین دیر
در راه مجردی سبک سیر

خورشید وشم ازین و آن فرد
پیوند بریده از زن و مرد

دارم دلی از جهان رمیده
آن به که من بلا رسیده

تا در خم این رواق باشم
زآویزش جفت طاق باشم

دیوانه ام از بلند رایی
دیوانه چه مرد کدخدایی

من بار خود افکنم ز گردن
در بار کسان چرا دهم تن

جز من نسزد رفیق من کس
تنهایی من رفیق من بس

بیچاره پدر چو کرد ازو گوش
این طرفه جواب رفت از هوش

گفتا که ز کدخدایی تو
باشد غرضم رهایی تو

باشد یابی به کدخدایی
از لیلی و عشق او رهایی

پیوند کنی به دیگری سخت
بندد غم لیلی از دلت رخت

یک کفش بود برای یک پای
یک دل نشود دو دوست را جای

ماء/وای دو خصم نیست یک باغ
شهباز آید سفر کند زاغ

گفت ای پدر این چه حیله سازیست
با بیدلی این چه عشوه بازیست

هیهات که بگسلم ز لیلی
تا سیر شود دلم ز لیلی

لیلی نقش و دلم نگین است
لیلی تخم و دلم زمین است

لیلی جان است و من تن او را
او طوطی و دل نشیمن او را

تا تن جان را بود نشیمن
من باشم و لیلی لیلی و من

گشتم یکسر همه جهان را
دیدم یک یک جهانیان را

هر چیز که روی در خلل داشت
چون در نگریستم بدل داشت

الا لیلی که گر نیاید
چیزی دگرش بدل نشاید

بر بی بدل ار بدل گزینم
جز در دل و دین خلل نبینم

چون دید پدر که حال مجنون
از پند نمی شود دگرگون

با خاطر خوش شدش دعاگوی
در کش مکش قضا رضاجوی

English translation

When Qays, with torn collar and hem, was not set right by his father's counsel, the nobles of the tribe, before that elder, spoke with sound judgment and wise counsel: "O Amiri, whose litter is the very heavens, flourishing of the realm of good fortune, your son is the light of our eyes, the repose of our restless hearts. Our eyes and hearts are bright with him; our very being is illumined by him. We are as rue-seed upon the fire of his love; how long shall we be content to watch him burn? Since love and fidelity are woven into his nature, this affair has become his destiny. One who falls into such an affliction, if he seeks a remedy, the remedy is either to set out on a journey, or to take up love for another idol. He is but a youth, and travel cannot come from him, nor can he manage it. Better that you seek a fairy-faced one, famed throughout the world for beauty, bring her into his marriage contract, and bend your resolve toward his welfare. Perhaps he will find solace in her and be freed of his desire for Layla, will gird himself to serve her, and shut his tongue upon this tale." This counsel from the men of judgment pleased the elder's mind. He opened his tongue and summoned Qays, seating him tenderly before his gaze. He said: "O you by whom my fortune is blessed, seated in my eye like its very pupil, my eye sees by your form; my back stands straight through your support. My nature is glad by you and my breast joyful; my state is undone by your absence. How long will you dwell apart from home, wandering alone and aimlessly? For a while return toward home, come back like a bird to its nest. And if you find no rest at home, I will make a lovely one your housemate, that she may keep your company with tenderness and hold you back from aimless roaming. When you set foot in the house, she will kiss your feet like the threshold; and when you stride outside, she will lay her head at your feet like a trailing hem. Your uncle, who is a very point of care, may his sorrow be effaced from the page of the age, keeps behind the veil a beauty who disdains even the moon for her loveliness, pure of body like a hidden pearl, beyond the narrow casket of description, sister to honey and sugar, bedfellow to the grace of the narcissus. Each moment she casts radiance upon the world; from her stature rises a new resurrection. Her fame is in every land; wanderers for her sake, like you, number a thousand. Her wealth lies beyond the reckoning of intellect, and her beauty far exceeds her wealth. In the crown of rank she is your equal, in origin and lineage your peer. No shame upon your hem would come from her, no stone against your glass from her. It is a pity that two such pure jewels have not yet grown joyful in union. I wish her to become your consort, content with your love and your displeasure, to display herself with you upon a single thread; her unpierced pearl would become your possession. Be together like soul and heart, like an almond—two kernels within one skin, become companions and confidants, free of the envious one's sting and the slanderer's wound." When Qays heard these words, he parted his sugar-shattering lips; from both lash and lip he strung pearls, scattered his tears, and said to his father: "O source of my being and my essence, the dust of your feet is my crown; my clay is molded by you; my pure soul is nurtured by you. I am the Jesus of Mary within this cloister, swift-paced upon the path of celibacy, sun-like, apart from this one and that, my bond severed from woman and man. I keep a heart estranged from the world; better that I, calamity-stricken, remain so. As long as I dwell within the arch of this vault, let me stay single, unpaired to its curve. I am mad through lofty aspiration; what has a madman to do with householding? I would cast my own burden from my neck; why should I yield myself to the burden of others? None but myself is fit to be my companion; my solitude is companion enough for me." The helpless father, when he heard from him this strange reply, swooned away from his senses. He said: "By your marrying, my only aim is your deliverance; perhaps through wedlock you will find release from Layla and her love. If you bind yourself firmly to another, the grief of Layla will pack up and leave your heart. One shoe is made for one foot; one heart cannot be a dwelling for two beloveds. One garden is no abode for two foes; when the royal falcon arrives, the crow departs." He said: "O father, what contrivance is this? With one who has no heart, what coquetry is this play? Far be it that I break from Layla until my heart is sated of Layla. Layla is the design and my heart the seal-stone; Layla the seed and my heart the soil. Layla is the soul and I am her body; she the parrot and my heart her perch. As long as the body is the dwelling of the soul, I shall be, and Layla—Layla and I. I wandered the whole world from end to end; I looked upon its people one by one. Everything that bore a flaw, when I gazed closely, had a substitute— save Layla, for whom, should she not come, nothing else can ever serve. Were I to choose a substitute for the irreplaceable, I would see nothing but ruin in heart and faith." When the father saw that Majnun's condition would not be altered by counsel, with a contented heart he turned to blessing him, seeking acceptance amid the tug-of-war of fate.

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