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دفتر اول - بخش ۱۷ - قصهٔ دیدن خلیفه لیلی را / Book One - Section 17 - The Tale of the Caliph Seeing Layla

متن و ترجمه / Text and Translation

گفت لیلی را خلیفه، کان توی؟کز تو مجنون شد پریشان و غوی؟
The caliph said to Layla, "Are you the one
through whom Majnun became distraught and led astray?
از دگر خوبان تو افزون نیستی!گفت: خامش، چون تو مجنون نیستی
You are no more beautiful than other beauties."
She said, "Be silent, for you are not Majnun."
هر که بیدارست او در خواب ترهست بیداریش از خوابش بتر
Whoever is [outwardly] awake is more deeply asleep;
his wakefulness is worse than his sleep.
چون بحق بیدار نبود جان ماهست بیداری چو در بندان ما
When our soul is not awakened through the Real (Ḥaqq),
our wakefulness is like imprisonment for us.
جان همه روز از لگدکوب خیالوز زیان و سود وز خوف زوال
The soul, all day, trampled underfoot by fantasy,
and by loss and gain and fear of decline,
نی صفا می ماندش نی لطف و فرنی به سوی آسمان راه سفر
retains neither purity nor grace nor splendor,
nor any road of travel toward the sky.
خفته آن باشد که او از هر خیالدارد اومید و کند با او مقال
Asleep is the one who, from every phantasm,
holds hope and holds discourse with it.
دیو را چون حور بیند او به خوابپس ز شهوت ریزد او با دیو آب
He sees the demon as a ḥūrī in his dream,
then from lust spills his fluid with the demon.
چونک تخم نسل را در شوره ریختاو به خویش آمد خیال از وی گریخت
When he has cast the seed of progeny into salt waste,
he comes to himself; the phantasm has fled from him.
ضعف سر بیند از آن و تن پلیدآه از آن نقش پدید ناپدید
He finds weakness in his head and filth in his body—
alas for that image, appearing and disappearing!
مرغ بر بالا و زیر آن سایه اشمی دود بر خاک پران مرغ وش
The bird is above, and its shadow below
runs upon the earth, flying bird-like.
ابلهی صیاد آن سایه شودمی دود چندانکه بی مایه شود
A fool becomes the hunter of that shadow,
running until he is utterly spent.
بی خبر کان عکس آن مرغ هواستبی خبر که اصل آن سایه کجاست
Unaware that it is the reflection of a bird of the air,
unaware of where the source of that shadow lies.
تیر اندازد به سوی سایه اوترکشش خالی شود از جست و جو
He shoots arrows toward the shadow;
his quiver is emptied in the pursuit.
ترکش عمرش تهی شد عمر رفتاز دویدن در شکار سایه تفت
The quiver of his life has been emptied; life has gone,
swiftly running in pursuit of the shadow.
سایهٔ یزدان چو باشد دایه اشوا رهاند از خیال و سایه اش
When the Shadow of God is his nurse,
it releases him from phantasm and shadow.
سایهٔ یزدان بود بنده ی خدامرده او زین عالم و زنده ی خدا
The Shadow of God is the servant of God—
dead to this world and alive in God.
دامن او گیر زوتر بی گمانتا رهی در دامن آخر زمان
Seize his hem quickly, without doubt,
that you may find a way at the hem of the End of Time.
«کيۡف مد ٱلظل» نقش اولیاستکو دلیل نور خورشید خداست
"How He stretched out the shadow" (Q. 25:45) is the form of the saints (awliyāʾ),
who are the guide to the light of God's sun.
اندرین وادی مرو بی این دلیل«لآ أحب ٱلۡأٓفلين» گو چون خلیل
In this valley, do not travel without this guide;
say "I do not love those that set" (Q. 6:76), like Khalīl (Abraham).
رو ز سایه آفتابی را بیابدامن شه شمس تبریزی بتاب
Go—through the shadow, find a sun;
seek the hem of the King, Shams of Tabrīz.
ره ندانی جانب این سور و عرساز ضیاء الحق حسام الدین بپرس
If you do not know the way to this feast and bridal celebration,
ask Ḍiyāʾ al-Ḥaqq Ḥusām al-Dīn.
ور حسد گیرد ترا در ره گلودر حسد ابلیس را باشد غلو
And if envy seizes your throat on the path,
in envy Iblīs has the greatest excess.
کو ز آدم ننگ دارد از حسدبا سعادت جنگ دارد از حسد
He scorns Adam out of envy,
and wages war against felicity out of envy.
عقبه ای زین صعب تر در راه نیستای خنک آنکش حسد همراه نیست
There is no steeper pass than this on the road;
blessed is the one who has no envy as companion.
این جسد خانه ی حسد آمد بداناز حسد آلوده باشد خاندان
Know that this body is the house of envy;
through envy the household becomes defiled.
گر جسد خانه ی حسد باشد ولیکآن جسد را پاک کرد الله نیک
Though the body is the house of envy,
God has well purified that body.
«طهرا بيتي» بیان پاکی استگنج نورست ار طلسمش خاکی است
"Purify My house" (Q. 2:125) declares purity—
it is a treasury of light, though its talisman is of clay.
چون کنی بر بی حسد مکر و حسدزان حسد دل را سیاهی ها رسد
When you practice deceit and envy against one free of envy,
darkness upon darkness reaches the heart from that envy.
خاک شو مردان حق را زیر پاخاک بر سر کن حسد را همچو ما
Become dust beneath the feet of the men of the Real (Ḥaqq);
cast dust upon the head of envy, as we do.

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