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دفتر پنجم - بخش ۱۳۵ - و هم‌چنین قد جف القلم یعنی جف القلم و کتب لا یستوی الطاعة والمعصیة لا یستوی الامانة و السرقة جف القلم ان لا یستوی الشکر و الکفران جف القلم ان الله لا یضیع اجر المحسنین / Book Five - Section 135 - And likewise 'the Pen has dried' means the Pen has dried and written that obedience and disobedience are not equal, trustworthiness and theft are not equal, the Pen has dried that gratitude and ingratitude are not equal, the Pen has dried that indeed God does not waste the reward o

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هم چنین تاویل قد جف القلمبهر تحریضست بر شغل اهم
Likewise, the interpretation of 'The Pen has dried'
Is for the sake of inciting [one] to the most important work.
پس قلم بنوشت که هر کار رالایق آن هست تاثیر و جزا
For the Pen wrote that for every action,
There is a fitting effect and recompense.
کژ روی جف القلم کژ آیدتراستی آری سعادت زایدت
If you go crookedly, 'The Pen has dried' [decreeing] that crookedness will come to you;
If you bring truth, happiness will be born for you.
ظلم آری مدبری جف القلمعدل آری بر خوری جف القلم
If you bring oppression, [you will face] adversity—the Pen has dried;
If you bring justice, you will enjoy the fruit—the Pen has dried.
چون بدزدد دست شد جف القلمخورد باده مست شد جف القلم
When he steals, his hand is cut off—the Pen has dried;
When he drinks wine, he becomes intoxicated—the Pen has dried.
تو روا داری روا باشد که حقهم چو معزول آید از حکم سبق
Do you think it proper, or is it permissible, that God
Should be like one deposed by His own prior decree,
که ز دست من برون رفتست کارپیش من چندین میا چندین مزار
Saying, 'The matter has gone out of My hands;
Do not come to Me so much, do not weep so much'?
بلک معنی آن بود جف القلمنیست یکسان پیش من عدل و ستم
Rather, the meaning of 'The Pen has dried' is this:
Justice and oppression are not equal before Me.
فرق بنهادم میان خیر و شرفرق بنهادم ز بد هم از بتر
I have set a distinction between good and evil;
I have set a distinction between the bad and the worse.
ذره ای گر در تو افزونی ادبباشد از یارت بداند فضل رب
If there be in you a single atom of extra politeness
Compared to your companion, the Lord's grace knows it.
قدر آن ذره ترا افزون دهدذره چون کوهی قدم بیرون نهد
He will increase your reward by the value of that atom;
That atom will step forth like a mountain.
پادشاهی که به پیش تخت اوفرق نبود از امین و ظلم جو
A king before whose throne there is no difference
Between the trustworthy and the seeker of oppression,
آنک می لرزد ز بیم رد اووانک طعنه می زند در جد او
Between him who trembles for fear of his rejection,
And him who mocks his effort,
فرق نبود هر دو یک باشد برششاه نبود خاک تیره بر سرش
If there is no difference and both are the same to him,
He is no king—dark earth be upon his head!
ذره ای گر جهد تو افزون بوددر ترازوی خدا موزون بود
If your effort be greater by an atom,
It will be weighed in God's scales.
پیش این شاهان هماره جان کنیبی خبر ایشان ز غدر و روشنی
Before these worldly kings, you always wear out your life,
While they remain unaware of treachery or brightness.
گفت غمازی که بد گوید تراضایع آرد خدمتت را سالها
The word of a slanderer who speaks ill of you
Will waste your years of service.
پیش شاهی که سمیعست و بصیرگفت غمازان نباشد جای گیر
But before a King Who is All-Hearing and All-Seeing,
The talk of slanderers finds no place.
جمله غمازان ازو آیس شوندسوی ما آیند و افزایند پند
All slanderers despair of Him;
They come to us and multiply their advice,
بس جفا گویند شه را پیش ماکه برو جف القلم کم کن وفا
They speak much injustice about the King before us,
Saying, 'Go, the Pen has dried, lessen your loyalty.'
معنی جف القلم کی آن بودکه جفاها با وفا یکسان بود
How could the meaning of 'The Pen has dried' be
That acts of cruelty are equal to loyalty?
بل جفا را هم جفا جف القلموآن وفا را هم وفا جف القلم
Nay, for cruelty there is also cruelty—the Pen has dried;
And for loyalty there is also loyalty—the Pen has dried.
عفو باشد لیک کو فر امیدکه بود بنده ز تقوی روسپید
There may be forgiveness, but where is the glory of hope
That the servant should be white-faced (honored) through piety?
دزد را گر عفو باشد جان بردکی وزیر و خازن مخزن شود
If the thief is forgiven, he saves his life,
But how will he become a vizier and keeper of the treasury?
ای امین الدین ربانی بیاکز امانت رست هر تاج و لوا
Come, O trustworthy one of the Divine Religion,
For through trustworthiness every crown and banner has been delivered.
پور سلطان گر برو خاین شودآن سرش از تن بدان باین شود
If the sultan's own son becomes treacherous to him,
Know that his head will be severed from his body.
وز غلامی هندوی آرد وفادولت او را می زند طال بقا
But if a Hindu slave displays loyalty,
The state proclaims 'May your life be prolonged!' for him.
چه غلام ار بر دری سگ باوفاستدر دل سالار او را صد رضاست
What of a slave? If even a dog at the door is loyal,
There are a hundred approvals for it in the master's heart.
زین چو سگ را بوسه بر پوزش دهدگر بود شیری چه پیروزش کند
Because of this, he kisses the dog's snout;
If it were a lion, how victorious would he make it!
جز مگر دزدی که خدمتها کندصدق او بیخ جفا را بر کند
Except perhaps a thief who performs services,
And his sincerity tears up the root of his cruelty.
چون فضیل ره زنی کو راست باختزانک ده مرده به سوی توبه تاخت
Like Fudayl, the highwayman, who played truthfully,
Because he rushed toward repentance with tenfold strength.
وآنچنان که ساحران فرعون رارو سیه کردند از صبر و وفا
And just as the sorcerers made Pharaoh black-faced
Through their patience and loyalty.
دست و پا دادند در جرم قودآن به صد ساله عبادت کی شود
They gave up their hands and feet under the law of retaliation;
How could that be attained by a hundred years of worship?
تو که پنجه سال خدمت کرده ایکی چنین صدقی به دست آورده ای
You, who have served for fifty years,
When have you ever acquired such sincerity?

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