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دفتر اول - بخش ۱۱ - حکایت بقال و طوطی و روغن ریختن طوطی در دکان / Book One - Section 11 - The Tale of the Grocer and the Parrot and the Parrot Spilling Oil in the Shop

متن و ترجمه / Text and Translation

بود بقالی و وی را طوطییخوش نوایی سبز و گویا طوطیی
There was a grocer, and he had a parrot,
A sweet-voiced parrot, green and speaking.
بر دکان بودی نگهبان دکاننکته گفتی با همه سوداگران
It would stay at the shop as guardian of the shop,
And would speak witty points with all the traders.
در خطاب آدمی ناطق بدیدر نوای طوطیان حاذق بدی
In addressing humans it was eloquent,
And in the song of parrots it was skilled.
خواجه روزی سوی خانه رفته بودبر دکان طوطی نگهبانی نمود
One day the master had gone toward home,
And the parrot kept watch over the shop.
گربه ای برجست ناگه بر دکانبهر موشی طوطیک از بیم جان
A cat suddenly leaped onto the shop
After a mouse; the little parrot, in fear for its life,
جست از سوی دکان سویی گریختشیشه های روغن گل را بریخت
Jumped from the shop and fled to one side,
And spilled the bottles of rose oil.
از سوی خانه بیامد خواجه اشبر دکان بنشست فارغ خواجه وش
Its master came from the direction of the house;
He sat in the shop, at ease, in the manner of a master.
دید پر روغن دکان و جامه چرببر سرش زد، گشت طوطی کل ز ضرب
He saw the shop full of oil and his garment greasy;
He struck it on the head, and the parrot became bald from the blow.
روزکی چندی سخن کوتاه کردمرد بقال از ندامت آه کرد
For several days it cut short its speech;
The grocer sighed from remorse.
ریش بر می کند و می گفت ای دریغکافتاب نعمتم شد زیر میغ
He tore at his beard and said, Alas,
The sun of my good fortune has gone under a cloud.
دست من بشکسته بودی آن زمانکه زدم من بر سر آن خوش زبان
Would that my hand had been broken then,
When I struck the head of that sweet-tongued one.
هدیه ها می داد هر درویش راتا بیابد نطق مرغ خویش را
He gave gifts to every dervish,
So that he might recover the speech of his bird.
بعد سه روز و سه شب حیران و زاربر دکان بنشسته بد نومیدوار
After three days and three nights, bewildered and wretched,
He sat in the shop hopelessly.
می نمود آن مرغ را هر گون نهفتتا که باشد اندرآید او بگفت
He showed the bird every kind of hidden inducement,
So that perhaps it might enter into speech.
جولقیی سر برهنه می گذشتبا سر بی مو چو پشت طاس و طشت
A jowlaqi dervish, bare-headed, passed by,
With a hairless head like the back of a basin or tray.
آمد اندر گفت طوطی آن زمانبانگ بر درویش زد چون عاقلان
At that moment the parrot came into speech;
Like the rational, it cried out to the dervish:
کز چه ای کل با کلان آمیختی؟تو مگر از شیشه روغن ریختی؟
Why, bald one, have you mixed yourself with the bald?
Did you perhaps spill oil from a bottle?
از قیاسش خنده آمد خلق راکو چو خود پنداشت صاحب دلق را
The people laughed at its analogy,
Because it had supposed the patched-cloak wearer to be like itself.
کار پاکان را قیاس از خود مگیرگرچه ماند در نبشتن شیر و شیر
Do not measure the work of the pure by yourself,
Even though shir and shir are alike in writing.
جمله عالم زین سبب گمراه شدکم کسی ز ابدال حق آگاه شد
The whole world has gone astray for this reason;
Few have become aware of the Abdals of God.
همسری با انبیا برداشتنداولیا را همچو خود پنداشتند
They claimed equality with the prophets;
They supposed the saints to be like themselves.
گفته اینک ما بشر ایشان بشرما و ایشان بستهٔ خوابیم و خور
They said, See, we are human and they are human;
We and they are bound by sleep and eating.
این ندانستند ایشان از عمیهست فرقی درمیان بی منتهی
In their blindness they did not know this:
There is a boundless difference between them.
هر دو گون زنبور خوردند از محللیک شد زان نیش و زین دیگر عسل
Both kinds of bee ate from the same place,
Yet from that one came a sting, and from this other honey.
هر دو گون آهو گیا خوردند و آبزین یکی سرگین شد و زان مشک ناب
Both kinds of gazelle ate grass and water;
From this one came dung, and from that pure musk.
هر دو نی خوردند از یک آب خوراین یکی خالی و آن پر از شکر
Both reeds drank from one watering-place;
This one is empty, and that one full of sugar.
صد هزاران این چنین اشباه بینفرقشان هفتاد ساله راه بین
See hundreds of thousands of such likenesses;
See that the difference between them is a seventy-year road.
این خورد گردد پلیدی زو جداآن خورد گردد همه نور خدا
This one eats and filth is separated from it;
That one eats and becomes wholly the light of God.
این خورد زاید همه بخل و حسدوآن خورد زاید همه نور احد
This one eats and all miserliness and envy are born;
That one eats and all the light of the One is born.
این زمین پاک و آن شوره ست و بداین فرشتهٔ پاک و آن دیوست و دد
This is pure earth, and that is salt-marsh and bad;
This is a pure angel, and that is a demon and beast.
هر دو صورت گر به هم ماند رواستآب تلخ و آب شیرین را صفاست
If the two forms resemble each other, that is possible;
Bitter water and sweet water both have clarity.
جز که صاحب ذوق کی شناسد بیاباو شناسد آب خوش از شوره آب
Who but the possessor of taste can know? Come, seek him:
He recognizes good water from brackish water.
سحر را با معجزه کرده قیاسهر دو را بر مکر پندارد اساس
They have compared sorcery with miracle,
Supposing both to be founded on deception.
ساحران موسی از استیزه رابرگرفته چون عصای او عصا
The sorcerers of Moses, out of contention,
Took up staffs like his staff.
زین عصا تا آن عصا فرقی ست ژرفزین عمل تا آن عمل راهی شگرف
From this staff to that staff there is a deep difference;
From this act to that act, a wondrous road.
لعنة الله این عمل را در قفارحمة الله آن عمل را در وفا
The curse of God follows behind this act;
The mercy of God follows that act in fidelity.
کافران اندر مری بوزینه طبعآفتی آمد درون سینه طبع
Unbelievers in disputation are ape-natured;
A blight came into the breast of nature.
هرچه مردم می کند بوزینه همآن کند کز مرد بیند دم بدم
Whatever a human does, the ape too
Does what it sees the human do from moment to moment.
او گمان برده که من کردم، چو اوفرق را کی داند آن استیزه رو
It imagines: I did as he did.
How should that contentious-faced one know the difference?
این کند از امر و او بهر ستیزبر سر استیزه رویان خاک ریز
This one acts by command, and that one for contention;
Throw dust on the heads of the contentious.
آن منافق با موافق در نمازاز پی استیزه آید نه نیاز
That hypocrite comes with the sincere believer in prayer
For contention, not need.
در نماز و روزه و حج و زکاتبا منافق مؤمنان در برد و مات
In prayer and fasting and pilgrimage and alms,
Believers and hypocrites are in winning and losing.
مؤمنان را برد باشد عاقبتبر منافق مات اندر آخرت
The believers will have the win in the end;
For the hypocrite there is checkmate in the hereafter.
گرچه هر دو بر سر یک بازی اندهر دو با هم مروزی و رازی اند
Although both are over one game,
Both are together like men of Merv and Rayy.
هر یکی سوی مقام خود رودهر یکی بر وفق نام خود رود
Each one goes toward his own station;
Each one goes according to his own name.
مؤمنش خوانند جانش خوش شودور منافق تیز و پر آتش شود
Call him believer and his soul becomes happy;
But if you call him hypocrite, he becomes sharp and full of fire.
نام او محبوب از ذات وی استنام این مبغوض از آفات وی است
His name is beloved because of his essence;
This one's name is hated because of his defects.
میم و واو و میم و نون تشریف نیستلفظ مؤمن جز پی تعریف نیست
The letters mim, waw, mim, and nun are no honor;
The grace of believer is only for designation.
گر منافق خوانیش این نام دونهمچو کژدم می خلد در اندرون
If you call the hypocrite by this low name,
It stings within him like a scorpion.
گرنه این نام اشتقاق دوزخستپس چرا در وی مذاق دوزخست
If this name is not derived from hell,
Then why is there a taste of hell in him?
زشتی آن نام بد از حرف نیستتلخی آن آب بحر از ظرف نیست
The ugliness of that bad name is not from the letters;
The bitterness of sea water is not from the vessel.
حرف ظرف آمد درو معنی چو آببحر معنی عنده ام الکتاب
The letter is the vessel; meaning in it is like water;
The sea of meaning is with Him, the Mother of the Book.
بحر تلخ و بحر شیرین در جهاندر میانشان برزخ لا یبغیان
There is a bitter sea and a sweet sea in the world;
Between them is a barrier: they do not overstep.
وانگه این هر دو ز یک اصلی روانبر گذر زین هر دو رو تا اصل آن
Yet these two both flow from one origin;
Pass beyond both and go to that origin.
زر قلب و زر نیکو در عیاربی محک هرگز ندانی ز اعتبار
Counterfeit gold and good gold in assay:
Without a touchstone you never know them by estimation.
هر که را در جان خدا بنهد محکهر یقین را باز داند او ز شک
Whoever has had God place a touchstone in his soul
Distinguishes every certainty from doubt.
در دهان زنده خاشاکی جهدآنگه آرامد که بیرونش نهد
When a bit of straw jumps into the mouth of a living person,
He rests only when he removes it.
در هزاران لقمه یک خاشاک خردچون در آمد حس زنده پی ببرد
Among a thousand morsels, one tiny straw:
When it enters, the living sense detects it.
حس دنیا نردبان این جهانحس دینی نردبان آسمان
The worldly sense is the ladder of this world;
The religious sense is the ladder of heaven.
صحت این حس بجویید از طبیبصحت آن حس بجویید از حبیب
Seek the health of this sense from the physician;
Seek the health of that sense from the Beloved.
صحت این حس ز معموری تنصحت آن حس ز تخریب بدن
The health of this sense comes from the body's flourishing;
The health of that sense comes from the body's devastation.
راه جان مر جسم را ویران کندبعد از آن ویرانی آبادان کند
The path of the soul ruins the body,
And after that ruin makes it prosper.
کرد ویران خانه بهر گنج زروز همان گنجش کند معمورتر
It destroyed the house for the sake of a treasure of gold,
And from that same treasure made it more prosperous.
آب را ببرید و جو را پاک کردبعد از آن در جو روان کرد آب خورد
It cut off the water and cleaned the channel;
After that it sent drinkable water running in the channel.
پوست را بشکافت و پیکان را کشیدپوست تازه بعد از آنش بر دمید
It split the skin and drew out the arrowhead;
After that it grew fresh skin over it.
قلعه ویران کرد و از کافر ستدبعد از آن بر ساختش صد برج و سد

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