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دفتر سوم - بخش ۲۲۸ - یافتن عاشق معشوق را و بیان آنک جوینده یابنده بود کی وَ مَنْ یَعْمَلْ مِثْقالَ ذَرَّةٍ خَیْراً یَرَهُ / Book Three - Section 228 - The Lover Finding the Beloved, and Exposition That the Seeker Is the Finder, as in 'Whoever does an atom's weight of good shall see it'

متن و ترجمه / Text and Translation

کان جوان در جست و جو بد هفت سالاز خیال وصل گشته چون خیال
That youth was in search for seven years,
From the imagination of union, he had become like a phantom.
سایهٔ حق بر سر بنده بودعاقبت جوینده یابنده بود
The shadow of Truth is upon the head of the servant;
In the end, the seeker is the finder.
گفت پیغامبر که چون کوبی دریعاقبت زان در برون آید سری
The Prophet said that when you knock on a door,
In the end, a head will come out from that door.
چون نشینی بر سر کوی کسیعاقبت بینی تو هم روی کسی
When you sit at the top of someone's street,
In the end, you too will see someone's face.
چون ز چاهی می کنی هر روز خاکعاقبت اندر رسی در آب پاک
When you dig dirt from a well every day,
In the end, you will reach pure water.
جمله دانند این اگر تو نگرویهر چه می کاریش روزی بدروی
Everyone knows this, if you do not believe it:
Whatever you sow, you will one day reap.
سنگ بر آهن زدی آتش نجستاین نباشد ور بباشد نادرست
You struck stone against iron and fire did not leap forth?
This does not happen, and if it does, it is an anomaly.
آنک روزی نیستش بخت و نجاتننگرد عقلش مگر در نادرات
He whose daily portion is not fortune and salvation,
His intellect looks at nothing but anomalies.
کان فلان کس کشت کرد و بر نداشتو آن صدف برد و صدف گوهر نداشت
Saying, 'Such-and-such a person planted and did not harvest,'
'And that one brought a shell, and the shell had no pearl.'
بلعم باعور و ابلیس لعینسود نامدشان عبادتها و دین
Balaam the son of Beor and the accursed Iblis,
Their worship and religion brought them no profit.
صد هزاران انبیا و ره روانناید اندر خاطر آن بدگمان
A hundred thousand prophets and wayfarers,
Do not cross the mind of that suspicious one.
این دو را گیرد که تاریکی دهددر دلش ادبار جز این کی نهد
He takes these two [exceptions] to bring darkness;
Who puts adversity in his heart but this?
بس کسا که نان خورد دلشاد اومرگ او گردد بگیرد در گلو
Many a person who eats bread, his heart is gladdened by it;
[Yet for another] it becomes his death and gets stuck in his throat.
پس تو ای ادبار رو هم نان مخورتا نیفتی همچو او در شور و شر
So you, O adverse one, go and don't eat bread either,
Lest you fall like him into turmoil and evil.
صد هزاران خلق نانها می خورندزور می یابند و جان می پرورند
A hundred thousand people are eating bread,
Finding strength and nourishing their souls.
تو بدان نادر کجا افتاده ایگر نه محرومی و ابله زاده ای
Where have you fallen upon that rarity?
If you are not deprived and born a fool!
این جهان پر آفتاب و نور ماهاو بهشته سر فرو برده به چاه
This world is full of the sun and the light of the moon,
He has dropped his head into a well:
که اگر حقست پس کو روشنیسر ز چه بردار و بنگر ای دنی
Saying, 'If it is true, then where is the light?'
Lift your head from the well and look, O base one!
جمله عالم شرق و غرب آن نور یافتتا تو در چاهی نخواهد بر تو تافت
The whole world, East and West, found that light;
As long as you are in the well, it will not shine upon you.
چه رها کن رو به ایوان و کرومکم ستیز اینجا بدان کاللج شوم
Let go of the well, go towards the palace and the vineyards;
Argue less here with that unlucky stubbornness.
هین مگو کاینک فلانی کشت کرددر فلان سالی ملخ کشتش بخورد
Take heed, do not say, 'Look, so-and-so planted,
And in such-and-such a year locusts ate his crop;
پس چرا کارم که اینجا خوف هستمن چرا افشانم این گندم ز دست
So why should I work, since there is fear here?
Why should I scatter this wheat from my hand?'
و آنک او نگذاشت کشت و کار راپر کند کوری تو انبار را
And he who did not abandon planting and working,
Will fill his barn, in spite of your blindness.
چون دری می کوفت او از سلوتیعاقبت در یافت روزی خلوتی
Since he knocked on a door out of solace,
In the end, he found a private space.
جست از بیم عسس شب او به باغیار خود را یافت چون شمع و چراغ
He leaped out of fear of the night-watchman at night into an orchard;
He found his friend like a candle and a lamp.
گفت سازندهٔ سبب را آن نفسای خدا تو رحمتی کن بر عسس
He said that moment to the Maker of causes:
'O God, have mercy upon the watchman!
ناشناسا تو سببها کرده ایاز در دوزخ بهشتم برده ای
Unrecognizably, You have made causes,
From the door of hell, You have taken me to paradise.
بهر آن کردی سبب این کار راتا ندارم خوار من یک خار را
You made this matter a cause for that,
So that I may not hold a single thorn in contempt.'
در شکست پای بخشد حق پریهم ز قعر چاه بگشاید دری
In the breaking of a leg, God grants a wing;
Even from the bottom of a well, He opens a door.
تو مبین که بر درختی یا به چاهتو مرا بین که منم مفتاح راه
Do not look at whether you are on a tree or in a well;
Look at Me, for I am the key to the way.
گر تو خواهی باقی این گفت و گوای اخی در دفتر چارم بجو
If you desire the rest of this conversation,
O brother, seek it in the Fourth Book.

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