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بخش ۲۴ - الحكایة و التمثیل / Section 24 - The Tale and the Parable

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آن امام دین چنین گفته ست راست
کان چنان قربی که نزدیک خداست

اهل لطف و طبع را کس در جهان
آن نیابد آشکارا و نهان

از زفانها هر سخن بیرون رود
از زفان شاعران موزون رود

آنکه بود او سرور پیغامبران
گفت در زیر زفان شاعران

هست حق را گنجهای بیشمار
سر آن یک میندانند از هزار

هم قوافی کان خوش و یکسان بود
زان سخن بسیار در قرآن بود

گر قوافی را رواجی نیستی
بر سر هر خطبه تاجی نیستی

نظم ونثری کان میان امتست
از قوافی آن سخن را حرمتست

گر پیمبرمی نخواندی شعر راست
پادشا جولاهه گر نبود رواست

چون جهودان ساحرش میخواندند
بت پرستان شاعرش میخواندند

حق تعالی گفت این بس ظاهرست
کو بحق نه ساحر ونه شاعرست

شاعری در منصب پیغامبری
همچو حجامیست در اسکندری

آنکه باشد هر دو کونش ارزنی
خوشه چینی چون کند در خرمنی

حق چو گفتش نیست شاعر زان نبود
ورنه او را در سخن تاوان نبود

بود او هم در عرب هم در عجم
افصح الفصحاء فی کل الامم

شاعران را نطق او خاموش کرد
در لفظش حلقهشان در گوش کرد

هم فصیحان پیش او الکن شدند
هم ظریفان جهان کودن شدند

باز با جبریل گفت ای محترم
من نیم قاری نبود او لاجرم

هر دو عالم زیر پایش بود خاک
گر نبود او قاری و شاعر چه باک

شعر از طبع آید و پیغامبران
طبع کی دارند همچون دیگران

روح قدسی را طبیعت کی بود
انبیا را جز شریعت کی بود

در سخن آمد بسی و اندکی
گر بسنجی وزن گیرد بیشکی

شعر گفتن همچو زر پختن بود
در عروض آوردنش سختن بود

لیکن آن کس را که زر باشد بسی
کی تواند سختن آن هرگز کسی

گر بسنجی زر زر موزون بود
ور بسی باشد ز وزن افزون بود

زر چو در میزان نمیگنجد بسی
پس زر بسیار چون سنجد کسی

زر بسی سختن نه بس کاری بود
چون توان سختن چو بسیاری بود

چون پیمبر خواجه اسرار بود
در خور سرش سخن بسیار بود

چون بسختن در نمیآید زرش
همچنان ناسخته میشد از برش

گر زر سخته دهد مرد کریم
گرچه موزون باشد آن باشد سلیم

چون زر ناسخته او پخته بود
سخت اگر گفتی سخن هم سخته بود

حاتم طی را ترازو کی نکوست
لیک فرش بخل را زوطی نکوست

پادشا را زور بازو بس بود
دست زر پاشش ترازو بس بود

English translation

That Imam of Religion has spoken truly thus That such proximity as is near to God For the people of grace and nature in the world No one will find it openly or hidden From tongues every word goes out From the tongues of poets it goes out metrically He who was the master of the prophets Said that beneath the tongue of poets There are countless treasures of truth The secret of which they do not know one in a thousand Also rhymes that are pleasant and identical Of such speech there is much in the Quran If rhyme had no currency There would be no crown upon the head of any sermon The verse and prose that exist among the community From rhyme that speech derives its sanctity If the Prophet did not recite true poetry It would be as if it were fitting for a weaver to be king Since the Jews called him a sorcerer And the idol-worshippers called him a poet God the Exalted said this is quite evident That in truth he is neither a sorcerer nor a poet Being a poet in the rank of prophethood Is like being a cupper in Alexandria He for whom both worlds are but a grain of millet How could he be a gleaner in a harvest? Because God said he is not a poet, he was not Otherwise he would have no inability in speech He was, among both Arabs and non-Arabs, The most eloquent of the eloquent in all nations His speech silenced the poets The pearl of his words put a ring in their ears Even the eloquent became stutterers before him Even the clever ones of the world became dullards Again he said to Gabriel, O honorable one, I am not a reciter, so he was not necessarily Both worlds were dust beneath his feet If he were not a reciter or a poet, what fear? Poetry comes from human nature, and the prophets, When do they have human nature like others? When does the Holy Spirit have human nature? When do prophets have anything but the Divine Law? In speech there came both much and little If you weigh it, it undoubtedly takes on measure To compose poetry is like smelting gold Bringing it into prosody is to weigh it But for the one who has a lot of gold How could anyone ever weigh it all? If you weigh gold, measured gold is good But if there is much, it exceeds the weight Since much gold cannot be contained in the scale Then how can anyone weigh abundant gold? Weighing much gold is not an easy task How can one weigh it when there is an abundance? Since the Prophet was the master of secrets His speech was abundant, befitting his secrets Because his gold could not be weighed It emanated from him unweighed If a generous man gives weighed gold Even if it is measured, it is flawless Since his unweighed gold was pure If he spoke weightily, his speech was also weighed When is a scale fitting for Hatim of Tayy? But for the spread of miserliness, a scale is fitting For a king, the strength of his arm is enough His gold-scattering hand is enough of a scale.

Updated 2026-07-03

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