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دفتر سوم - بخش ۸ - فریفتن روستایی شهری را و به دعوت خواندن، به لابه و الحاح بسیار / Book Three - Section 8 - The Villager Deceiving the Townsman and Inviting Him to the Village, with Much Entreaty and Insistence

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ای برادر بود اندر ما مضیٰ
شهریی با روستایی آشنا

روستایی چون سوی شهر آمدی
خرگه اندر کوی آن شهری زدی

دو مه و سه ماه مهمانش بدی
بر دکان او و بر خوانش بدی

هر حوایج را که بودش آن زمان
راست کردی مرد شهری رایگان

رو به شهری کرد و گفت ای خواجه تو
هیچ می نایی سوی ده فرجه جو

الله الله جمله فرزندان بیار
کاین زمان گلشن ست و نوبهار

یا به تابستان بیا وقت ثمر
تا ببندم خدمتت را من کمر

خیل و فرزندان و قومت را بیار
در ده ما باش سه ماه و چهار

که بهاران خطهٔ ده خوش بود
کشت زار و لالهٔ دلکش بود

وعده دادی شهری او را دفع حال
تا بر آمد بعد وعده هشت سال

او به هر سالی همی گفتی که کی
عزم خواهی کرد کامد ماه دی

او بهانه ساختی کامسال مان
از فلان خطه بیامد میهمان

سال دیگر گر توانم وا رهید
از مهمات ، آن طرف خواهم دوید

گفت هستند آن عیالم منتظر
بهر فرزندان تو ای اهل بر

باز هر سالی چو لک لک آمدی
تا مقیم قبهٔ شهری شدی

خواجه هر سالی ز زر و مال خویش
خرج او کردی گشادی بال خویش

آخرین کرت سه ماه آن پهلوان
خوان نهادش بامدادان و شبان

از خجالت باز گفت او خواجه را
چند وعده چند بفریبی مرا

گفت خواجه جسم و جانم وصل جوست
لیک هر تحویل اندر حکم هوست

آدمی چون کشتی است و بادبان
تا کی آرد باد را آن باد ران

باز سوگندان بدادش کای کریم
گیر فرزندان ، بیا بنگر نعیم

دست او بگرفت سه کرت به عهد
کالله الله زو بیا بنمای جهد

بعد ده سال و به هر سالی چنین
لابه ها و وعده های شکرین

کودکان خواجه گفتند ای پدر
ماه و ابر و سایه هم دارد سفر

حق ها بر وی تو ثابت کرده ای
رنج ها در کار او بس برده ای

او همی خواهد که بعضی حق آن
وا گزارد چون شوی تو میهمان

بس وصیت کرد ما را او نهان
که کشیدش سوی ده لابه کنان

گفت حق ست این ولی ای سیبویه
اتق من شر من احسنت الیه

دوستی تخم دم آخر بود
ترسم از وحشت که آن فاسد شود

صحبتی باشد چو شمشیر قطوع
همچو دی در بوستان و در زروع

صحبتی باشد چو فصل نوبهار
زو عمارت ها و دخل بی شمار

حزم آن باشد که ظن بد بری
تا گریزی و شوی از بد بری

حزم سوء الظن گفته ست آن رسول
هر قدم را دام می دان ای فضول

روی صحرا هست هموار و فراخ
هر قدم دامی ست کم ران اوستاخ

آن بز کوهی دود که «دام کو »
چون بتازد ، دامش افتد در گلو

آنک می گفتی که کو اینک ببین
دشت می دیدی نمی دیدی کمین

بی کمین و دام و صیاد ای عیار
دنبه کی باشد میان کشت زار

آنک گستاخ آمدند اندر زمین
استخوان و کله هاشان را ببین

چون به گورستان روی ای مرتضا
استخوانشان را بپرس از ما مضی

تا به ظاهر بینی آن مستان کور
چون فرو رفتند در چاه غرور

چشم اگر داری تو کورانه میا
ور نداری چشم ، دست آور عصا

آن عصای حزم و استدلال را
چون نداری دید می کن پیشوا

ور عصای حزم و استدلال نیست
بی عصا کش بر سر هر ره مایست

گام ز ان سان نه که نابینا نهد
تا که پا از چاه و از سگ وا رهد

لرز لرزان و به ترس و احتیاط
می نهد پا تا نیفتد در خباط

ای ز دودی جسته در ناری شده
لقمه جسته لقمهٔ ماری شده

English translation

O brother, in the days of old, there was a townsman acquainted with a villager. Whenever the villager came to the town, he would pitch his tent in the quarter of that townsman, And would be his guest for two or three months, staying at his shop and eating at his table. Every need that he had at that time, the townsman would satisfy for him free of cost. The villager turned to the townsman and said, 'O master, do you never come to the village to seek recreation?' 'For God's sake, bring all your children, for this is the time of the rose-garden and early spring.' 'Or come in summer, the season of fruit, so that I may gird my loin to serve you.' 'Bring your family, children, and kinsfolk, and stay in our village for three or four months,' 'For in spring the country-side is pleasant, and the sown fields and tulips are delightful.' The townsman gave him promises to put him off, until eight years passed after the promise. Every year the villager would say, 'When will you resolve to go, for the month of Day (winter) has come?' The townsman would make excuses, saying, 'This year of ours, a guest has come from such-and-such region;' 'Next year, if I can be free from urgent matters, I will run to that side.' The villager said, 'My family are waiting for your children, O man of piety.' Yet every year the villager would come like a stork, till he became a resident under the townsman's dome. The master every year, out of his own gold and property, spent on him and spread his wings (generosity) wide. The last time, for three months, that champion spread his table for him morning and evening. In shame, the villager said again to the master, 'How many promises? How long will you deceive me?' The master said, 'My body and soul seek connection, but every change is under His decree.' 'Man is like a ship and its sail: whither will the Ship-driver (God) bring the wind?' Again he bound him with oaths: 'O generous one, take your children, come and see the bounty!' He grasped his hand three times in covenant: 'For God's sake, make an effort to come!' After ten years, and every year like this, with sweet entreaties and sugary promises, The master's children said, 'O father, the moon, the cloud, and the shadow also travel.' 'You have established many rights over him, and you have suffered much pain on his behalf.' 'He wishes to repay some of those rights when you become his guest.' 'He gave us many secret counsels to drag you to the village with entreaties.' He said, 'This is true, but O Sibawayh, "Beware of the evil of him to whom you have done good!"' 'Friendship is the seed of the final breath; I fear lest it should be corrupted by estrangement.' 'There is companionship like a cutting sword, like December (winter) in the garden and the crops.' 'There is companionship like the season of early spring, from which come prosperity and countless gains.' 'Prudence is to think ill (of others), so that you may flee and be free from evil.' 'The Messenger said, "Prudence is to think ill (of others)," consider every step to be a snare, O busybody!' 'The surface of the plain is smooth and wide, yet every step is a snare; do not gallop boldly.' 'That mountain goat runs, crying, "Where is the snare?" As it gallops, the snare falls around its neck.' 'The one who said "Where is it?" now see! You saw the plain, but you did not see the ambush.' 'Without ambush, snare, and hunter, O knave, how should there be fat tail (bait) in the midst of the sown field?' 'Those who came boldly upon the earth, behold their bones and skulls!' 'When you go to the graveyard, O chosen one, ask their bones about what has passed,' 'So that you may clearly see those blind drunkards, how they sank into the well of pride (delusion).' If you have eyes, do not walk blindly; and if you do not have eyes, get a staff. Make that staff of prudence and logical deduction your leader when you lack vision. And if there is no staff of prudence and logical deduction, do not stand on any road without a staff-puller. Take steps such as a blind man takes, so that his foot may escape from the pit and the dog. Trembling, and with fear and caution, he places his foot so that he may not fall into confusion (stumble). O you who have fled from smoke only to enter the fire, O you who sought a morsel and became a morsel for a snake!

Updated 2026-06-25

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