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دفتر چهارم - بخش ۶ - قصهٔ آن صوفی کی زن خود را بیگانه‌ای بگرفت / Book Four – Section 6 – The Story of the Sufi Whose Wife Took a Stranger to Herself
متن و ترجمه / Text and Translation
| صوفیی آمد به سوی خانه روز | خانه یک در بود و زن با کفش دوز |
| A Sufi came toward his house by day; the house had one door, and his wife was with a cobbler. | |
| جفت گشته با رهی خویش زن | اندر آن یک حجره از وسواس تن |
| The wife had coupled with her own servant in that single chamber, driven by the temptation of the flesh. | |
| چون بزد صوفی به جد در چاشتگاه | هر دو درماندند نه حیلت نه راه |
| When the Sufi knocked earnestly at mid-morning, both were confounded — neither trick nor way out. | |
| هیچ معهودش نبد کو آن زمان | سوی خانه باز گردد از دکان |
| It had never been his custom at that hour to return home from the shop. | |
| قاصدا آن روز بی وقت آن مروع | از خیالی کرد تا خانه رجوع |
| Purposely that day, at an unaccustomed hour, that alarmed man returned home on account of a certain premonition. | |
| اعتماد زن بر آن کو هیچ بار | این زمان فا خانه نامد او ز کار |
| The wife's confidence rested on the belief that never at this hour would he come home from work. | |
| آن قیاسش راست نامد از قضا | گرچه ستارست هم بدهد سزا |
| That reckoning of hers was not borne out by fate; for though God is the Concealer, He gives punishment too. | |
| چونک بد کردی بترس آمن مباش | زانک تخمست و برویاند خداش |
| When you have done evil, fear — do not feel secure, for it is a seed, and God will make it grow. | |
| چند گاهی او بپوشاند که تا | آیدت زان بد پشیمان و حیا |
| For a while He conceals it, so that repentance and shame may come to you from that evil. | |
| عهد عمر آن امیر مؤمنان | داد دزدی را به جلاد و عوان |
| In the time of 'Umar, that Commander of the Faithful, a thief was handed over to the executioner and the constables. | |
| بانگ زد آن دزد کای میر دیار | اولین بارست جرمم زینهار |
| The thief cried out: "O lord of the realm, this is the first time I have committed this offense — spare me!" | |
| گفت عمر حاش لله که خدا | بار اول قهر بارد در جزا |
| 'Umar said: "God forbid! For God does not pour down wrath in punishment the very first time. | |
| بارها پوشد پی اظهار فضل | باز گیرد از پی اظهار عدل |
| Many times He conceals, to manifest His grace; then He seizes, to manifest His justice — | |
| تا که این هر دو صفت ظاهر شود | آن مبشر گردد این منذر شود |
| so that both these attributes may become manifest: the one becomes a bearer of glad tidings, the other a warner." | |
| بارها زن نیز این بد کرده بود | سهل بگذشت آن و سهلش می نمود |
| The wife too had done this evil many times before; it had passed easily, and easy it seemed to her. | |
| آن نمی دانست عقل پای سست | که سبو دایم ز جو ناید درست |
| That feeble-footed reason did not know that the pitcher does not always come unbroken from the stream. | |
| آنچنانش تنگ آورد آن قضا | که منافق را کند مرگ فجا |
| Fate pressed her into such straits as sudden death presses the hypocrite — | |
| نه طریق و نه رفیق و نه امان | دست کرده آن فرشته سوی جان |
| no path, no companion, no safety, the angel's hand already reaching toward the soul. | |
| آنچنان کین زن در آن حجره جفا | خشک شد او و حریفش ز ابتلا |
| Just so, this woman in that chamber of wrongdoing — she and her partner were frozen by the tribulation. | |
| گفت صوفی با دل خود کای دو گبر | از شما کینه کشم لیکن به صبر |
| The Sufi said to himself: "O you two infidels, I will take my vengeance upon you — but with patience. | |
| لیک نادانسته آرم این نفس | تا که هر گوشی ننوشد این جرس |
| Yet I will carry it out secretly, so that every ear may not hear this bell. | |
| از شما پنهان کشد کینه محق | اندک اندک هم چو بیماری دق |
| The rightful one draws his vengeance from you in secret, little by little, like the wasting disease of consumption. | |
| مرد دق باشد چو یخ هر لحظه کم | لیک پندارد بهر دم بهترم |
| The consumptive man diminishes like ice at every moment, yet thinks at every breath: 'I am getting better.' | |
| هم چو کفتاری که می گیرندش و او | غرهٔ آن گفت کین کفتار کو |
| Like a hyena being seized while it is beguiled by the saying: 'Where is this hyena?'" | |
| هیچ پنهان خانه آن زن را نبود | سمج و دهلیز و ره بالا نبود |
| The woman had no hiding place whatsoever — no cellar, no vestibule, no way to the upper floor. | |
| نه تنوری که در آن پنهان شود | نه جوالی که حجاب آن شود |
| No oven in which to hide, no sack to serve as cover. | |
| هم چو عرصهٔ پهن روز رستخیز | نه گو و نه پشته نه جای گریز |
| Like the broad plain of the Day of Resurrection — no pit, no mound, no place of escape. | |
| گفت یزدان وصف این جای حرج | بهر محشر لا تری فیها عوج |
| God described this place of distress for the Gathering: "You will see no crookedness in it." | |
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