1Cademy - بخش ۱۷۶ - قصه آن خرس که آبش می برد شخصی تصور کرد که خیکی است پر بار، رفت تا آن را بگیرد، خرس در وی آویخت، آن شخص به وی درماند، دیگری از کناره فریاد کرد که خیک را بگذار و بیرون آی. گفت من او را گذاشته ام او مرا نمی گذارد / Section 176 - The Story of the Bear Swept Away by Water Whom a Person Imagined to be a Loaded Waterskin and Went to Catch It, but the Bear Clung to Him, Leaving Him Trapped; Another Cried from the Shore, Leave the Waterskin and Come Out! He Replied, I Have Let It Go, but It

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بخش ۱۷۶ - قصه آن خرس که آبش می برد شخصی تصور کرد که خیکی است پر بار، رفت تا آن را بگیرد، خرس در وی آویخت، آن شخص به وی درماند، دیگری از کناره فریاد کرد که خیک را بگذار و بیرون آی. گفت من او را گذاشته ام او مرا نمی گذارد / Section 176 - The Story of the Bear Swept Away by Water Whom a Person Imagined to be a Loaded Waterskin and Went to Catch It, but the Bear Clung to Him, Leaving Him Trapped; Another Cried from the Shore, 'Leave the Waterskin and Come Out!' He Replied, 'I Have Let It Go, but It

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خرسی از حرص طعمه بر لب رود
بهر ماهی گرفتن آمده بود

ناگه از آب ماهیی برجست
برد حال به صید ماهی دست

پایش از جای شد در آب فتاد
پوستین زان خطا در آب نهاد

ای بسا کس که حرص زد راهش
آب ناخورده کشت در چاهش

آب بهر حیات خود طلبید
لیک ازان جز هلاک خویش ندید

آب بس تیز بود و پهناور
خرس مسکین در آب شد مضطر

دست و پا زد بسی و سود نداشت
عاقبت خویش را به آب گذاشت

از بلا چون به حیله نتوان رست
باید آنجا ز حیله شستن دست

همچو خیکی که پشم ناکنده
باشد از رخت و پخت آگنده

بر سر آب چرخ زن می رفت
دست شسته ز جان و تن می رفت

دو شناور ز دور بر لب آب
بهر کاری همی شدند شتاب

چشمشان ناگهان فتاد بر آن
از تحیر شدند خیره در آن

کان چه چیز است مرده یا زنده ست
پوستی از قماش آگنده ست

آن یکی بر کناره منزل ساخت
وان دگر خویش را در آب انداخت

آشنا کرد تا به آن برسید
خرس خود مخلصی همی طلبید

در شناور دو دست زد محکم
باز ماند از شنا شناور هم

اندر آن موج گشته از جان سیر
گاه بالا همی شد و گه زیر

یار چون دید حال او ز کنار
بانگ برداشت کای گرامی یار

گر گران است پوست بگذارش
هم بدان موج آب بسپارش

گفت من پوست را گذاشته ام
دست از پوست باز داشته ام

پوست از من همی ندارد دست
بلکه پشتم به زور پنجه شکست

جهد کن جهد ای برادر بوک
پوست دانی ز خرس و خیک ز خوک

نبری خرس را ز دور گمان
پوستی پر قماش و رخت گران

نکنی خوک را ز جهل خیال
خیکی از شهد ناب مالامال

گر تو گویی ستوده نیست بسی
که نهی خرس و خوک نام کسی

گویم آری ولی بداندیشی
کش نباشد بجز بدی کیشی

جز بدی و ددی نداند هیچ
مرکب بخردی نراند هیچ

خرس یا خوک اگر نهندش نام
باشد آن خرس و خوک را دشنام

بزهی گر بود درین اقوال
زان دو باید نه از وی استحلال

ای خدا دل گرفت ازین سخنم
چند بیهوده گفت و گوی کنم

زین سخن مهر بر زبانم نه
هر چه مذموم ازان امانم ده

از بدی و ددی مده سازم
وز بدان و ددان رهان بازم

هر که دل ز آرزوی او خوش نیست
به زبان گفت و گوی او خوش نیست

چون توان یاد دوستان کردن
دل ازان یاد بوستان کردن

حیف باشد حکایت دشمن
رفتن از بوستان سوی گلخن

چون حدیث خسان نه بهبود است
باز گردم به آنچه مقصود است

English translation

A bear, greedy for prey, on the bank of the river, had come to catch fish. Suddenly a fish leapt out of the water, he immediately stretched out his hand to catch the fish. His foot slipped and he fell into the water; he placed his fur coat in the water through that error. Oh, how many a person whose greed has blocked his path, and killed him in his well without having drunk water! He sought water for his own life, yet saw nothing in it but his own destruction. The water was very swift and wide, the poor bear became helpless in the water. He flailed his limbs much, but it was of no use; at last, he abandoned himself to the water. Since one cannot escape from calamity by trickery, one must wash one's hands of trickery there. Like a waterskin whose hair has not been shorn, stuffed with garments and baggage, it went spinning upon the surface of the water, going along having washed its hands of life and body. Two swimmers from afar on the bank of the water were hurrying on some business. Suddenly their eyes fell upon it; from bewilderment they stared at it: 'What is that thing? Is it dead or alive? Is it a skin stuffed with fabric?' One of them halted on the shore, while the other threw himself into the water. He swam until he reached it; the bear himself was seeking a way of escape. He firmly clutched the swimmer with both hands; the swimmer, too, was prevented from swimming. Having grown weary of life in those waves, now he went up, and now he went down. When his companion saw his state from the shore, he called out, 'O dear friend! If the skin is heavy, leave it, and commit it to that wave of water!' He said, 'I have let go of the skin, I have withdrawn my hands from the skin. The skin does not let go of me; nay, my back has been broken by the strength of its claws!' Strive, strive, O brother, so that perhaps you may distinguish a bear from a skin, and a pig from a waterskin. Do not mistake a bear from afar to be a skin full of fabric and costly garments; nor, out of ignorance, imagine a pig to be a waterskin brimful of pure honey. If you say, 'It is not very praiseworthy to call someone a bear or a pig,' I say: 'Yes, but a malevolent person, who has no creed but wickedness, and knows nothing but evil and savagery, and rides no mount but foolishness— If they name him a bear or a pig, it would be an insult to the bear and the pig! If there is any sin in these words, one should seek forgiveness from those two [animals], not from him.' O God, my heart is weary of these words of mine; how long shall I speak vain words? Place a seal on my tongue from such speech, and grant me safety from whatever is blameworthy. Do not let my nature be shaped by evil and savagery, and rescue me from the wicked and the beasts. Anyone whose heart is not pleased by His desire, the speech of his tongue is not pleasant. How can one remember friends, and make the heart a garden by that remembrance? It would be a pity to tell the story of the enemy, going from the garden to the ash-pit. Since the talk of the vile is of no benefit, I shall return to what is intended.

Updated 2026-07-07

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