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دفتر دوم - بخش ۳۰ - امتحان کردن خواجهٔ لقمان زیرکی لقمان را / Book Two - Section 30 - Luqman's Master Testing Luqman's Cleverness

متن و ترجمه / Text and Translation

نی که لقمان را که بندهٔ پاک بودروز و شب در بندگی چالاک بود
Was it not that Luqman was a pure slave,
Nimble in servitude by day and night?
خواجه اش می داشتی در کار پیشبهترش دیدی ز فرزندان خویش
His master would put him first in every task,
Seeing him as better than his own children.
زانک لقمان گرچه بنده زاد بودخواجه بود و از هوا آزاد بود
For Luqman, though born a slave,
Was a master and free from caprice.
گفت شاهی شیخ را اندر سخنچیزی از بخشش ز من درخواست کن
A king said to a shaykh in conversation,
“Ask me for something as a gift.”
گفت ای شه شرم ناید مر تراکه چنین گویی مرا زین برتر آ
He said, “O king, are you not ashamed
To say such a thing to me? Come higher than this.
من دو بنده دارم و ایشان حقیروآن دو بر تو حاکمانند و امیر
I have two slaves, contemptible ones,
And those two are rulers and commanders over you.”
گفت شه آن دو چه اند این زلتستگفت آن یک خشم و دیگر شهوتست
The king said, “What are those two? This is abasement.”
He said, “One is anger and the other lust.”
شاه آن دان کو ز شاهی فارغستبی مه و خورشید نورش بازغست
Know that the king is he who is free of kingship;
His light rises without moon or sun.
مخزن آن دارد که مخزن ذات اوستهستی او دارد که با هستی عدوست
He has the treasure-store whose treasure-store is his own essence;
He has being who is an enemy to being.
خواجهٔ لقمان بظاهر خواجه وشدر حقیقت بنده لقمان خواجه اش
Luqman's master was outwardly master-like;
In reality he was the slave, and Luqman his master.
در جهان بازگونه زین بسیستدر نظرشان گوهری کم از خسیست
There is much in the world that is reversed in this way;
In their sight a jewel is less than a straw.
مر بیابان را مفازه نام شدنام و رنگی عقلشان را دام شد
The desert came to be called mafaza, “place of deliverance”;
Name and color became a snare for their intellect.
یک گره را خود معرف جامه استدر قبا گویند کو از عامه است
For one group, clothing itself is a badge of recognition;
From the robe they say, “He is one of the common people.”
یک گره را ظاهر سالوس زهدنور باید تا بود جاسوس زهد
For another group there is the outward hypocrisy of asceticism;
Light is needed to spy out asceticism.
نور باید پاک از تقلید و غولتا شناسد مرد را بی فعل و قول
Light is needed, pure from imitation and ghoul-like delusion,
So that it may know the man without act or speech.
در رود در قلب او از راه عقلنقد او بیند نباشد بند نقل
It enters his heart by way of intellect;
It sees his coin and is not bound by report.
بندگان خاص علام الغیوبدر جهان جان جواسیس القلوب
The special servants of the Knower of the Unseen
Are, in the world of soul, spies of hearts.
در درون دل در آید چون خیالپیش او مکشوف باشد سر حال
It enters the inside of the heart like thought;
Before it the secret of the state is disclosed.
در تن گنجشک چیست از برگ و سازکه شود پوشیده آن بر عقل باز
What provisions or equipment are there in a sparrow's body
That could be hidden from the intellect of a hawk?
آنک واقف گشت بر اسرار هوسر مخلوقات چه بود پیش او
One who has become aware of the secrets of Hu,
What are the secrets of creatures before him?
آنک بر افلاک رفتارش بودبر زمین رفتن چه دشوارش بود
One whose walking is upon the heavens,
How should walking on earth be hard for him?
در کف داود کاهن گشت مومموم چه بود در کف او ای ظلوم
In David's hand iron became wax;
What, then, is wax in his hand, O unjust one?
بود لقمان بنده شکلی خواجه ایبندگی بر ظاهرش دیباجه ای
Luqman was a master in the form of a slave;
Servitude was an ornamental preface on his outward form.
چون رود خواجه به جای ناشناسدر غلام خویش پوشاند لباس
When a master goes to an unknown place,
He clothes himself in his slave's clothes.
او بپوشد جامه های آن غلاممر غلام خویش را سازد امام
He puts on that slave's garments
And makes his own slave the leader.
در پیش چون بندگان در ره شودتا نباید زو کسی آگه شود
He goes ahead on the road like servants,
So that no one should become aware of him.
گوید ای بنده تو رو بر صدر شینمن بگیرم کفش چون بندهٔ کهین
He says, “O slave, go sit in the place of honor;
I will take the shoes like a lowly servant.
تو درشتی کن مرا دشنام دهمر مرا تو هیچ توقیری منه
Be harsh with me; abuse me;
Show me no respect at all.
ترک خدمت خدمت تو داشتمتا به غربت تخم حیلت کاشتم
I treated abandoning service as service to you,
Until in exile I planted the seed of stratagem.”
خواجگان این بندگیها کرده اندتا گمان آید که ایشان بنده اند
Masters have performed such acts of servitude
So that it might be supposed that they are slaves.
چشم پر بودند و سیر از خواجگیکارها را کرده اند آمادگی
They were full-eyed and sated with mastery;
They had prepared these acts in advance.
وین غلامان هوا بر عکس آنخویشتن بنموده خواجهٔ عقل و جان
But these slaves of caprice, conversely,
Have displayed themselves as masters of intellect and soul.
آید از خواجه ره افکندگیناید از بنده به غیر بندگی
From the master comes the way of self-abasement;
From the slave comes nothing but servitude.
پس از آن عالم بدین عالم چنانتعبیتها هست بر عکس این بدان
So, from that world into this world, know this:
There are subordinations in reverse.
خواجهٔ لقمان ازین حال نهانبود واقف دیده بود از وی نشان
Luqman's master was aware of this hidden state;
He had seen a sign of it in him.
راز می دانست و خوش می راند خراز برای مصلحت آن راه بر
He knew the secret and cheerfully drove the donkey,
For the sake of expediency, that guide on the way.
مر ورا آزاد کردی از نخستلیک خشنودی لقمان را بجست
He would have freed him from the beginning,
But he sought Luqman's satisfaction.
زانک لقمان را مراد این بود تاکس نداند سر آن شیر و فتی
For Luqman's wish was this:
That no one should know the secret of that lion and noble youth.
چه عجب گر سر ز بد پنهان کنیاین عجب که سر ز خود پنهان کنی
What wonder if you hide your secret from the wicked?
The wonder is this: that you hide the secret from yourself.
کار پنهان کن تو از چشمان خودتا بود کارت سلیم از چشم بد
Hide your work from your own eyes,
So that your work may be sound from the evil eye.
خویش را تسلیم کن بر دام مزدوانگه از خود بی ز خود چیزی بدزد
Surrender yourself to the snare of recompense,
And then, beyond yourself and without yourself, steal something from yourself.
می دهند افیون به مرد زخم مندتا که پیکان از تنش بیرون کنند
They give opium to a wounded man
So that they may pull the arrowhead from his body.
وقت مرگ از رنج او را می درنداو بدان مشغول شد جان می برند
At the time of death, they tear him away from his pain;
He is occupied with it, and they take away his soul.
چون به هر فکری که دل خواهی سپرداز تو چیزی در نهان خواهند برد
Whenever you entrust the heart to any thought it desires,
Something will be secretly taken from you.
پس بدان مشغول شو کان بهترستتا ز تو چیزی برد کان کهترست
So occupy yourself with what is better,
So that what is taken from you is the lesser thing.
هرچه تحصیلی کنی ای معتنیمی در آید دزد از آن سو کایمنی
Whatever you acquire, O concerned one,
The thief enters from the side where you feel secure.
بار بازرگان چو در آب اوفتددست اندر کالهٔ بهتر زند
When a merchant's load falls into the water,
He reaches for the better goods.
چونک چیزی فوت خواهد شد در آبترک کمتر گوی و بهتر را بیاب
When something is going to be lost in the water,
Let the lesser go and take the better.

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