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(۵) حکایت پسر صاحب جمال و عاشق شوریده حال / (5) The Tale of the Beautiful Youth and the Distraught Lover

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یکی صاحب جمال دلستان بود
که از رویش عرق بر بوستان بود

بهاری بود در صحرا بمانده
بزیر خیمهٔ تنها بمانده

ازو خیمه سپهری معتبر بود
که زیر خیمه خورشیدی دگر بود

جوانی را نظر ناگه بیفتاد
ز عشق او دلش از ره بیفتاد

چنان در عشق محکم گشت بندش
که پند کس نیامد سودمندش

نبودی صبر یک دم از جمالش
ولی بوئی نبردی از وصالش

مگر بود اتفاق غم گساران
که روزی اوفتاد آغاز باران

همه صحرانشینان می دویدند
بزیر خیمه سر در می کشیدند

قضارا عاشق و معشوق دلبر
دران یک خیمه افتادند همبر

چو از اندازه باران بیشتر شد
همی هر کس بزیر جامه در شد

بزیر خیمه در آن هر دو دلخواه
بزیر جامهٔ رفتند آنگاه

بچشم از یکدیگر جان می ربودند
زلب بر همدگر جان می فزودند

دعا می کرد هر سوزنده جانی
که کم کن ای خدا باران زمانی

ولی می گفت عاشق یا الهی
زیادت کن نه کم چندانکه خواهی

کنون کز ابر طوفانی روانست
اگر کشتی برانم وقت آنست

بسی بودست قحط غمگساران
که تری نیست این ساعت ز باران

اگر می بارد این تا روز محشر
قیامت گردد از شادی میسر

خدایا نقد گردان آن سعادت
که گردد هر زمان باران زیادت

چو حق ابلیس ملعون را همی خواست
همان چیز او ز حق افزون همی خواست

چو حق بی واسطه با او سخن گفت
برای آن همه از خویشتن گفت

چوامر سجده آمد آن لعین را
بخوابانید چشم راه بین را

بدو گفتند اسجد قال لاغیر
برو خواندند اخسوا قال لاضیر

اگرچه لعنتی از پی درآرم
به پیش غیر او سر کی درآرم

بغیری گرمرا بودی نگاهی
نبودی حکمم از مه تا بماهی

English translation

There was a heart-ravishing beauty, Whose face brought sweat to the garden. Like spring, they remained in the desert, Left alone beneath a tent. Because of them, the tent was a prestigious heaven, For beneath the tent was another sun. A youth's gaze suddenly fell upon them, And out of love, his heart went astray. His bond became so firm in love That no one's counsel proved beneficial to him. He had not a single moment of patience without their beauty, Yet he did not catch even a scent of union. But by the chance of the sorrow-sharers, One day, the rain began to fall. All the desert-dwellers ran, Seeking shelter under the tents. By fate, the lover and the beloved sweetheart Ended up side-by-side in that same tent. When the rain exceeded all measure, Everyone crept under their garments. Beneath the tent, those two desired ones Then went under a garment together. With their eyes, they were stealing each other's souls; With their lips, they were giving life to one another. Every burning soul was praying: 'O God, lessen the rain for a while.' But the lover was saying: 'O my Lord, Increase it, do not decrease it, as much as You wish! Now that a torrent is flowing from the storm clouds, If I am to steer a ship, now is the time. There has been a great drought of sorrow-sharers, And there is no freshness in this hour except from the rain. If this rains until the Day of Resurrection, The Resurrection will be achieved in joy. O God, make that happiness immediate, So that the rain increases at every moment.' When God willed the testing of the accursed Iblis, He also desired the same thing from God even more. When God spoke to him without an intermediary, For that reason, he spoke entirely from his own self. When the command to prostrate came to that accursed one, He closed his path-seeing eye. They said to him, 'Prostrate!' He said, 'Not to another!' They read to him, 'Away with you, despised!' He said, 'No harm.' 'Even if I bring a curse upon myself, How would I bow my head before any other than Him? If I had a gaze toward anyone else, My rule would not have run from the moon to the fish.'

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