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(۲) حکایت نمرود / (2) The Tale of Nimrod

متن و ترجمه / Text and Translation

یکی کشتی شکست و هفتصد تندرآب افتاد و باقی ماند یک زن
A ship broke apart and seven hundred people
Fell into the water, and one woman remained.
زنی برتختهٔ آنجا مگر ماندبزاد القصه وز وی یک پسر ماند
A woman happened to remain there on a plank;
In short, she gave birth, and from her a son remained.
چو بنهاد آن زن آشفته دل بارفرو افتاد در دریا نگونسار
When that distressed woman gave birth,
She fell headlong into the sea.
بر آن تخته بماند آن کودک خردپیاپی موجش از هر سو همی برد
That little child remained on that plank,
Wave after wave carrying him from every side.
خطاب آمد بباد و موج و ماهیکه این طفلیست در حفظ الهی
An address came to the wind, wave, and fish:
"This is a child under divine protection;
نگه دارید تا نرسد بلائیشکه می باید رسانیدن بجائیش
Protect him so that no calamity reaches him,
For he must be delivered to a certain place."
همه روحانیان گفتند الهیچه شخصست این میان موج و ماهی
All the spiritual beings said, "O God!
Who is this person amid the wave and fish?"
خطاب آمد کزین شوریده ایامچو وقت آید شوید آگه بهنگام
An address came: "From these turbulent times,
When the time comes, you shall be informed in due course."
چو آخر بر کنار بحر افتادبکف آورد صیادیش استاد
When he finally fell upon the shore of the sea,
A master fisherman found him.
به شیر و مرغ و ماهی کرد دم سازبخون دل بپروردش باعزاز
He nourished him with milk, fowl, and fish,
He raised him with heart's blood and honor.
چو بالا برکشید و راه دان شدمگر یک روز در راهی روان شد
When he grew up and became familiar with the way,
One day he happened to be walking on a path.
بره در سرمه دانی یافت یاقوتکه در خاصیتش شد عقل مبهوت
On the path, he found a ruby collyrium container,
The properties of which astounded the intellect.
چو میلی برکشید از سرمهٔ پاکبیک ره عرش و کرسی دید و افلاک
When he drew a stylus of the pure collyrium [across his eye],
At once he saw the Throne, the Pedestal, and the heavens.
چو میلی نیز در چشم دگر کردبگنج جملهٔ عالم نظر کرد
When he also applied the stylus to the other eye,
He beheld the treasure of the entire world.
هزاران گنج زیر خاک می دیدز مه تا پشت ماهی پاک می دید
He saw thousands of treasures beneath the earth,
He saw clearly from the moon to the back of the fish.
ملایک جمله می گفتند کای پاکچه بنده ست این چنین شایسته ادراک
All the angels said, "O Pure One!
What servant is this, so worthy of perception?"
چنین آمد ز غیب الغیب آوازکه نمرودست این شخص سرافراز
Such a voice came from the invisible of invisibles:
"This proud person is Nimrod.
زند لاف خدائی و بصد رنگبرون آید بکین ما بصد جنگ
He will boast of divinity, and in a hundred ways,
He will come forth in enmity against Us in a hundred battles.
ببین تا چون بپروردش درین راهچگونه خوار باز افکند ناگاه
See how He raised him on this path,
And how He suddenly casts him down in disgrace!"
کسی را در دو عالم هر که خواهیوقوفی نیست بر سر الهی
Whoever you might wish in the two worlds,
Has no awareness of the divine secret.
بعلت چیست خود مشغول بودننخواهد بود جز معلول بودن
Why occupy oneself with the cause?
It will be nothing but being the effect.
وگر در چار طبعی هیچ شک نیستکه کژ طبعی و هرگز چار یک نیست
And if you are in the four humors, there is no doubt
That you are ill-natured and never a quarter of one.
بدین دریا درآ و سرنگون آهم از طبع و هم از علت برون آ
Enter this sea and come headlong,
Come out of both temperament and cause.
نه ازچرخ برین برتر رود روزکه او هم سرنگون آمد شب و روز
Does the day not go higher than this supreme sphere?
For it too came headlong, night and day.
همه کار جهان از ذره تا شمسچه می پرسی کأن لم تغن بالامس
All the affairs of the world, from a mote to the sun,
Why do you ask? "As if they had not flourished yesterday."
شکست آورد گردون از مجرهسبک نکند که گردی ذره ذره
The sphere brought defeat from the Milky Way,
Do not take it lightly, lest you become mote by mote.
جهان را رخش گردونست در زینکه خورشیدست بر وی زین زرین
The world has the steed of the sphere saddled,
Whose golden saddle is the sun upon it.
چو عالم را فنا نزدیک گرددچو شب خورشید او تاریک گردد
When the annihilation of the world draws near,
Its sun will become dark like the night.
نهند آن زین او دانی چگونهبرین مرکب ز مغرب باژگونه
Do you know how they will place that saddle of his
Upon this mount from the west, upside down?
ازان بر عکس گردانند خورشیدکه این زین می نگردانند جاوید
They will turn the sun backwards for this reason:
Because they will not turn this saddle forever.
برآر از جان پر خون آه دلسوزکه نه از شب خبرداری نه از روز
Bring forth a heart-burning sigh from your blood-filled soul,
For you have no knowledge of either night or day.
شبت خوش باد وزین شب خوش چه سودتکه روز روشنی هرگز نبودت
May your night be pleasant, but what good is this pleasant night to you,
Since you never had a bright day?
اگرخواهی که باشی روز و شب شادمکن تاتو توئی زین روز و شب یاد
If you want to be happy day and night,
As long as you are you, do not remember this day and night.
ولی تا تو توئی در خویش ماندهنخواهی بود جز دل ریش مانده
But as long as you are you, remaining in yourself,
You will be nothing but left with a wounded heart.
تو می باید که بیخود گردی از شورشوی پاک از خود و از کار خود کور
You must become selfless from the passion,
Become pure of yourself, and blind to your own deeds.
که تا تو خویش را بر کار بینیاگردر خرقهٔ زنار بینی
For as long as you see yourself at work,
Even if you are in a cloak, you will see a zunnar.

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Updated 2026-09-12

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