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دفتر سوم - بخش ۱۲۵ - جواب گفتن انبیا طعن ایشان را و مثل زدن ایشان را / Book III – Section 125 – The Prophets' Answer to Their Taunts and Their Parable

متن و ترجمه / Text and Translation

ای دریغا که دوا در رنجتانگشت زهر قهر جان آهنجتان
Alas, that the remedy for your affliction
became the poison of wrath that draws out your soul.
ظلمت افزود این چراغ آن چشم راچون خدا بگماشت پردهٔ خشم را
This lamp increased the darkness of that eye
when God set the veil of anger in place.
چه رئیسی جست خواهیم از شماکه ریاستمان فزونست از سما
What lordship do we seek from you,
when our authority surpasses the heavens?
چه شرف یابد ز کشتی بحر درخاصه کشتیی ز سرگین گشته پر
What honor does the sea gain from a ship—
especially a ship that has become filled with dung?
ای دریغ آن دیدهٔ کور و کبودآفتابی اندرو ذره نمود
Alas for that blind and dim eye
in which a sun appeared as a mere mote.
ز آدمی که بود بی مثل و ندیددیده ابلیس جز طینی ندید
Of a human who was matchless and peerless,
the eye of Iblis saw nothing but clay.
چشم دیوانه بهارش دی نمودزان طرف جنبید کو را خانه بود
The madman's eye showed him spring as winter;
he moved toward the side where his home lay.
ای بسا دولت که آید گاه گاهپیش بی دولت بگردد او ز راه
How many a fortune that comes from time to time
turns away from the path before the unfortunate one.
ای بسا معشوق کاید ناشناختپیش بدبختی نداند عشق باخت
How many a beloved who comes unrecognized—
before the wretched one who knows not how to surrender to love.
این غلط ده دیده را حرمان ماستوین مقلب قلب را سؤ القضاست
This that deceives the eye is our deprivation,
and this that turns the heart is the evil decree of fate.
چون بت سنگین شما را قبله شدلعنت و کوری شما را ظله شد
Since a stone idol became your qibla,
curse and blindness became your canopy.
چون بشاید سنگتان انباز حقچون نشاید عقل و جان همراز حق
How can your stone be a partner to the Truth,
when intellect and soul cannot be the confidant of the Truth?
پشهٔ مرده هما را شد شریکچون نشاید زنده همراز ملیک
A dead gnat became partner to the huma—
how then can the living not be confidant of the King?
یا مگر مرده تراشیدهٔ شماستپشهٔ زنده تراشیدهٔ خداست
Or perhaps the dead one is your carving,
while the living gnat is God's carving.
عاشق خویشید و صنعت کرد خویشدم ماران را سر مارست کیش
You are lovers of yourselves and your own handiwork;
the serpent's head is the way of the serpent's breath.
نه در آن دم دولتی و نعمتینه در آن سر راحتی و لذتی
There is no fortune or blessing in that breath,
no ease or pleasure in that head.
گرد سر گردان بود آن دم مارلایق اند و درخورند آن هر دو یار
That serpent's breath revolves around its head;
those two companions are worthy and fitting for each other.
آنچنان گوید حکیم غزنویدر الهی نامه گر خوش بشنوی
Thus speaks the Sage of Ghazna
in the Ilahi-nama, if you listen well:
کم فضولی کن تو در حکم قدردرخور آمد شخص خر با گوش خر
"Meddle less in the decree of Fate—
a donkey's body befits a donkey's ear.
شد مناسب عضوها و ابدانهاشد مناسب وصفها با جانها
Limbs and bodies became commensurate,
attributes became commensurate with souls.
وصف هر جانی تناسب باشدشبی گمان با جان که حق بتراشدش
The attribute of every soul has proportion,
undoubtedly, with the soul that the Truth has fashioned.
چون صفت با جان قرین کردست اوپس مناسب دانش همچون چشم و رو
Since He has joined attribute with soul,
know their proportion to be like that of eye and face.
شد مناسب وصفها در خوب و زشتشد مناسب حرفها که حق نبشت
Attributes became commensurate in beauty and ugliness,
letters became commensurate that the Truth wrote."
دیده و دل هست بین اصبعینچون قلم در دست کاتب ای حسین
Eye and heart are between two fingers,
like a pen in the hand of the writer, O Husayn.
اصبع لطفست و قهر و در میانکلک دل با قبض و بسطی زین بنان
The fingers are Grace and Wrath, and in between,
the reed-pen of the heart moves with contraction and expansion from these fingers.
ای قلم بنگر گر اجلالیستیکه میان اصبعین کیستی
O pen, consider, if you would have dignity,
who you are between the two fingers.
جمله قصد و جنبشت زین اصبعستفرق تو بر چار راه مجمعست
All your intention and movement is from these fingers;
your head is set at the crossroads of four ways.
این حروف حالهات از نسخ اوستعزم و فسخت هم ز عزم و فسخ اوست
These letters of your states are from His transcription;
your determination and cancellation too are from His determination and cancellation.
جز نیاز و جز تضرع راه نیستزین تقلب هر قلم آگاه نیست
There is no path except need and humble entreaty;
not every pen is aware of this turning.
این قلم داند ولی بر قدر خودقدر خود پیدا کند در نیک و بد
This pen knows, but according to its own measure;
it reveals its own measure in good and bad.
آنچ در خرگوش و پیل آویختندتا ازل را با حیل آمیختند
What they hung upon the hare and the elephant
to mix the pre-eternal with stratagems.

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