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دفتر اول - بخش ۱۳۷ - حکایت ماجرای نحوی و کشتیبان / Book One - Section 137 - The Tale of the Grammarian and the Boatman

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آن یکی نحوی به کشتی در نشسترو به کشتیبان نهاد آن خودپرست
A certain grammarian boarded a boat;
That self-conceited one turned his face to the ferryman.
گفت هیچ از نحو خواندی گفت لاگفت نیم عمر تو شد در فنا
He said: "Have you read anything of grammar?" He said: "No."
He said: "Half your life has gone to ruin."
دل شکسته گشت کشتیبان ز تابلیک آن دم کرد خامش از جواب
The ferryman was heartbroken from the sting,
But in that moment held his tongue from reply.
باد کشتی را به گردابی فکندگفت کشتیبان بدان نحوی بلند
The wind threw the boat into a whirlpool;
The ferryman said to that lofty grammarian:
هیچ دانی آشنا کردن بگوگفت نی ای خوش جواب خوب رو
"Do you know how to swim? Tell me."
He said: "No, O sweet-answering, fair-faced one."
گفت کل عمرت ای نحوی فناستزانک کشتی غرق این گردابهاست
He said: "Your whole life, O grammarian, is ruined,
For the boat is sinking in these whirlpools.
محو می باید نه نحو اینجا بدانگر تو محوی بی خطر در آب ران
Know that mahw is needed here, not nahw—
If you are annihilated, swim through the water without danger.
آب دریا مرده را بر سر نهدور بود زنده ز دریا کی رهد
The ocean water holds a dead man aloft;
But if he is alive, how shall he escape the sea?
چون بمردی تو ز اوصاف بشربحر اسرارت نهد بر فرق سر
When you have died to the attributes of humanity,
The sea of mysteries will set you upon its crown.
ای که خلقان را تو خر می خوانده ایاین زمان چون خر برین یخ مانده ای
O you who have been calling people asses,
Now you are stuck on this ice like an ass.
گر تو علامه زمانی در جهاننک فنای این جهان بین وین زمان
If you are the great scholar of the age in the world,
Behold now the annihilation of this world and this time."
مرد نحوی را از آن در دوختیمتا شما را نحو محو آموختیم
We stitched the grammarian into this tale
So that we might teach you the grammar of annihilation.
فقه فقه و نحو نحو و صرف صرفدر کم آمد یابی ای یار شگرف
Fiqh is fiqh, and nahw is nahw, and ṣarf is ṣarf—
In diminishment you will find them, O wondrous friend.
آن سبوی آب، دانشهای ماستوان خلیفه دجلهٔ علم خداست
That water jug is our knowledges,
And that Caliph is the Tigris of God's knowledge.
ما سبوها پر به دجله می بریمگرنه خر دانیم خود را، ما خریم
We carry jugs brimful to the Tigris—
If we do not know ourselves as asses, we are asses.
باری اعرابی بدان معذور بودکو ز دجله غافل و بس دور بود
At least the Arab was excused in this,
For he was unaware of and far from the Tigris.
گر ز دجله با خبر بودی چو مااو نبردی آن سبو را جا بجا
Had he been aware of the Tigris as we are,
He would not have carried that jug from place to place.
بلک از دجله چو واقف آمدیآن سبو را بر سر سنگی زدی
Rather, had he come to know the Tigris,
He would have smashed that jug upon a stone.

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