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(۱۳) حکایت سلطان محمود که با دیوانه نشست / (13) The Tale of Sultan Mahmud Who Sat with the Madman

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بر دیوانهٔ محمود بنشست
نهاد او چشم برهم، شاه بشکست

بدو گفت این چرا کردی، چنین گفت
که تا رویت نه بینم، شه برآشفت

بدو گفتا لقای شاه عالم
نمی داری روا؟ گفت آن خود هم

چو خود بینی درین مذهب روا نیست
اگر غیری به بینی جز خطا نیست

شهش گفتا اولوالامر جهانم
بود بر تو همه حکمی روانم

بدو دیوانه گفتا هین بیندیش
که امر تو روان چون نیست بر خویش

نباشد بر دگر کس هم روانه
مرا مبشول چند آری بهانه

نمی آید ترا زین خواجگی ننگ
که گرد آوردهٔ عمری دو من سنگ؟

کسی باشد بمعنی مالک خویش
که نه ناجی بود نه هالک خویش

نمی دانی که کوژی ای مرائی
چرا در راستی خود را نمائی

English translation

Mahmud sat beside a madman, He closed his eyes; the king felt slighted. He asked him, 'Why did you do this?' He replied thus: 'So that I might not see your face.' The king grew enraged. He said to him, 'The encounter with the king of the world, Do you not consider it proper?' He said, 'Even that, Since seeing oneself is not proper in this path, If you see an "other", it is nothing but an error.' His king said, 'I am the commander of the world, All my commands are enforceable upon you.' The madman said to him, 'Look here, consider! Since your command is not enforceable upon yourself, It will not be enforceable upon anyone else either. How long will you bring excuses to me, a bewildered one? Does no shame come to you from this lordship, That over a lifetime you have gathered two maunds of stone? Someone is in true meaning the master of himself, Who is neither his own savior nor his own destroyer. Do you not know that you are crooked, O hypocrite? Why do you show yourself in straightness?'

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