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دفتر دوم - بخش ۷۱ - شکایت قاضی از آفت قضا و جواب گفتن نایب او را / Book Two - Section 71 - The Complaint of the Judge About the Affliction of Judgment and His Deputy's Answer to Him

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قاضیی بنشاندند و می گریست
گفت نایب قاضیا گریه ز چیست

این نه وقت گریه و فریاد تست
وقت شادی و مبارک باد تست

گفت اه چون حکم راند بی دلی
در میان آن دو عالم جاهلی

آن دو خصم از واقعهٔ خود واقفند
قاضی مسکین چه داند زان دو بند

جاهلست و غافلست از حالشان
چون رود در خونشان و مالشان

گفت خصمان عالم اند و علتی
جاهلی تو لیک شمع ملتی

زانک تو علت نداری در میان
آن فراغت هست نور دیدگان

وان دو عالم را غرضشان کور کرد
علمشان را علت اندر گور کرد

جهل را بی علتی عالم کند
علم را علت کژ و ظالم کند

تا تو رشوت نستدی بیننده ای
چون طمع کردی ضریر و بنده ای

از هوا من خوی را وا کرده ام
لقمه های شهوتی کم خورده ام

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English translation

A judge was installed, and he was weeping. His deputy said, "O judge, why do you weep? This is not the time for weeping and lamentation— This is your time for joy and congratulation."

He said, "Alas! How shall one without heart pass judgment Among those two learned ones—I, who am ignorant? The two litigants are versed in their own affair; What can the poor judge know of those two claims? He is ignorant and heedless of their situation— How then shall he rule on their blood and their wealth?"

The deputy said, "The litigants are learned, yet afflicted; You are ignorant, but you are the candle of the community. For you have no self-interest in the matter— That freedom is the light of the eyes. Those two learned ones—their desire blinded them, And their affliction buried their knowledge in the grave.

Ignorance, free of self-interest, becomes the knowing one; Knowledge, when afflicted by self-interest, becomes crooked and tyrannical. As long as you have taken no bribe, you are clear-sighted; Once you grow covetous, you are blind and enslaved.

From vain desire I have freed my nature; I have eaten fewer morsels of sensual passion. The tasting-sense of my heart has grown luminous— It truly knows the straight from the false."

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