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بخش ۶ - الحكایة و التمثیل / Section 6 - The Tale and the Parable

متن و ترجمه / Text and Translation

پیره زالی برد پیش بوسعیدکودکی را تا بود او را مرید
An old woman brought a child to Abu Sa'id,
So that he could be his disciple.
آن جوان در کار مرد آمد ولیکزرد گشت و ناتوان از ضعف نیک
That young man became diligent in the work, but
He became pale and weak from extreme frailty.
برگ بی برگی و بی خویشی نداشتطاقت خواری و درویشی نداشت
He did not have the means for poverty and selflessness,
He did not have the endurance for humility and dervishhood.
خاست مرد و شیخ را گفت این زمانصوفیم ناکرده کردی ناتوان
The man stood up and said to the Sheikh at this time,
"Without making me a Sufi, you made me weak.
خواستم تا صوفئی گردانیمهمچو خویش از خویشتن برهانیم
I wanted you to make me a Sufi,
To deliver me from myself like yourself.
تو مرا در دام مرگ انداختیکار من جمله ز برگ انداختی
You threw me into the snare of death,
You threw all my affairs out of order."
گفت چون صوفی نشاند بوسعیدصوفی او چون تو باشد ای مرید
He said, "When Abu Sa'id establishes a Sufi,
His Sufi will be like you, O disciple!
لیک چون صوفی نشاند کردگارلاجرم چون بوسعید آید بکار
But when the Creator establishes a Sufi,
Inevitably one like Abu Sa'id is produced.
هرچه آن از من رود چون من بوددوست از من گر رود دشمن بود
Whatever comes from me will be like me;
If a friend comes from me, he will be an enemy.
راست ناید صوفئی هرگز بکسبخر کجاگردد بجد و جهد اسب
Being a Sufi never comes right by earning,
Where does a donkey become a horse by earnest striving?
لیک اگر دولت رسد ازجای خویشیک خر عیسی بود صد اسب بیش
But if fortune arrives from its own place,
One donkey of Jesus is more than a hundred horses.
جد وجهدت را چو رای دیگرستصوفئی کردن ز جای دیگرست
Since your earnest striving has another intent,
Becoming a Sufi is from another place.
جد وجهدت بی ثوابی کی بودلیک گنجشگی عقابی کی بود
When would your earnest striving be without reward?
But when would a sparrow be an eagle?
گر همه عالم ثواب تو بودتا تو باشی تو عذاب تو بود
If the whole world were your reward,
As long as you exist, 'you' are your own torment.
صوفئی سنگیست مبهوت آمدهسنگ رفته لعل و یاقوت آمده
Sufism is a stone that has become bewildered,
The stone is gone, and rubies and sapphires have come.
تا بذات اندر تبدل نبودتجزو باشی ذات تو کل نبودت
Until there is a transformation in your essence,
You will be a part, your essence will not be the whole.
در حقیقت گرچه توکل آمدیلیک این ساعت همه ذل آمدی
In reality, although you came as the whole,
But at this hour you have come all as abasement.
گر شود ذل تودر کل ناپدیدتو بکلی کل شوی ذل ناپدید
If your abasement disappears in the whole,
You will entirely become the whole, and abasement will disappear.
ور بماند ذرهٔ از ذل توپس بود آن ذره ذلت غل تو
And if an atom of your abasement remains,
Then that atom of abasement will be your shackle.
هست صوفی ذل در کل باختهذل و کل در کل کل انداخته
The Sufi is one who has lost abasement in the whole,
Having thrown abasement and the whole into the whole of the whole.
کل کل در کل کلات آمدهبی صفت بی فعل و بی ذات آمده
The whole of the whole has come into the totalities,
Having come without attribute, without action, and without essence.
پای ناگاهی فرو رفتن بگنجپیشهٔ نبود که آموزی برنج
Suddenly stepping into a treasure
Is not a profession that you can learn through toil.
هست صوفی مرد بی رنج آمدهپای او ناگاه در گنج آمده
The Sufi is a man who has arrived without toil,
Whose foot has suddenly stepped into a treasure.
صوفئی باید ترا اندیشه کنتا که دانی گنج یابی پیشه کن
If you need Sufism, think about it,
So that you may know how to make treasure-finding your profession.
لیک جد و جهد میباید تراتادر این گنج بگشاید ترا
But you must have earnest striving,
So that the door of this treasure opens for you.
زانکه در راهی که سلطانان گنجگنجها دیدند بی رنج و برنج
For on the path where the kings of treasure
Saw treasures without toil and with toil.
صد نشان دادند ازان ره پیش توتا بجنبد نفس کافر کیش تو
They gave a hundred signs of that path before you,
So that your infidel-natured self might be stirred.
سر بدان راه آور و مردانه وارگنج میجو با دلی پرانتظار
Bring your head to that path and, like a man,
Seek the treasure with a heart full of expectation.
زانکه در راهی که گنج آنجا نهندهیچ نبود شک که رنج آنجا نهند
Because on the path where they place a treasure,
There is no doubt that they place toil there.
گر تو در راهی دگر پویندهٔگنج نیست آنجا که تو جویندهٔ
If you are traveling on another path,
The treasure is not there where you are seeking.
در رهی رو کان نشانت داده اندجهد کن تا سر بدانت داده اند
Go on the path that they have shown you the signs of,
Strive until they have given you its secret.
جهد میکن روز و شب در کوی رنجبو که ناگاهی ببینی روی گنج
Strive day and night in the alley of toil,
Perhaps suddenly you will see the face of the treasure.
هان و هان گر گنج دین بینی تو مستظن مبر کز جهد تو آمد بدست
Beware, beware, if you see the treasure of religion while intoxicated,
Do not think that it was obtained by your striving.
زانکه آنجا جهد را مقدار نیستگنج را جز گنج کس بر کار نیست
Because there, striving has no value,
For the treasure, no one but the treasure is at work.
هرکرا بنمود آن محض عطاستوانکه را ننمود از حکم قضاست
Whoever was shown it, that is pure bounty,
And whoever was not shown it, it is by the decree of destiny."

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