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دفتر پنجم - بخش ۲۰ - صفت طاوس و طبع او و سبب کشتن ابراهیم علیه‌السلام او را / Book Five - Section 20 - The Character of the Peacock, Its Nature, and the Reason for Abraham, Peace Be Upon Him, Killing It

متن و ترجمه / Text and Translation

آمدیم اکنون به طاوس دورنگکو کند جلوه برای نام و ننگ
We have come now to the two-colored peacock,
Who displays himself for the sake of name and reputation.
همت او صید خلق از خیر و شروز نتیجه و فایده آن بی خبر
His aspiration is to capture people, whether for good or evil,
While he remains ignorant of its result and benefit.
بی خبر چون دام می گیرد شکاردام را چه علم از مقصود کار
He is ignorant, like a trap that catches prey—
What knowledge does a trap have of the work's purpose?
دام را چه ضر و چه نفع از گرفتزین گرفت بیهده ش دارم شگفت
What harm or benefit does a trap gain from capturing?
I marvel at this futile capturing of his.
ای برادر دوستان افراشتیبا دو صد دلداری و بگذاشتی
O brother, you raised up friends,
With two hundred endearments, and then left them.
کارت این بودست از وقت ولادصید مردم کردن از دام وداد
Your work since the time of birth has been this:
To capture people through the trap of affection.
زان شکار و انبهی و باد و بوددست در کن هیچ یابی تار و پود
From that prey, and that crowd, and that pomp and vanity,
Reach out your hand—do you find any warp or weft?
بیشتر رفتست و بیگاهست روزتو به جد در صید خلقانی هنوز
Most of the day is gone and it is late,
Yet you are still diligently hunting people!
آن یکی می گیر و آن می هل ز داموین دگر را صید می کن چون لام
You catch one and release another from the trap,
And you capture this other one like the letter Lam.
باز این را می هل و می جو دگراینت لعب کودکان بی خبر
Then you let this one go and seek another—
What a game of ignorant children!
شب شود در دام تو یک صید نیدام بر تو جز صداع و قید نی
Night falls, and not a single prey is in your trap;
The trap brings you nothing but a headache and a bond.
پس تو خود را صید می کردی به دامکه شدی محبوس و محرومی ز کام
In truth, you were hunting yourself with the trap,
Since you became imprisoned and deprived of your desire.
در زمانه صاحب دامی بودهم چو ما احمق که صید خود کند
In this world, is there any owner of a trap
So foolish as us, who hunts himself?
چون شکار خوک آمد صید عامرنج بی حد لقمه خوردن زو حرام
The capture of the common folk is like hunting swine:
Boundless pain, and eating a morsel of it is forbidden.
آنک ارزد صید را عشقست و بسلیک او کی گنجد اندر دام کس
The only one who is worthy of being hunted is Love, and nothing else,
But how can He fit into anyone's trap?
تو مگر آیی و صید او شویدام بگذاری به دام او روی
Unless you come and become His prey,
Abandon your trap and go into His trap.
عشق می گوید به گوشم پست پستصید بودن خوش تر از صیادیست
Love whispers softly in my ear:
'To be the prey is sweeter than being the hunter.
گول من کن خویش را و غره شوآفتابی را رها کن ذره شو
Make yourself simple-minded for me and be deceived;
Leave the sun and become a particle.
بر درم ساکن شو و بی خانه باشدعوی شمعی مکن پروانه باش
Dwell at my door and be homeless;
Do not claim to be the candle, be the moth,
تا ببینی چاشنی زندگیسلطنت بینی نهان در بندگی
So that you may taste the sweetness of life,
And see sovereignty hidden in servitude.
نعل بینی بازگونه در جهانتخته بندان را لقب گشته شهان
You will see horseshoes reversed in the world:
Those bound to wooden planks have been nicknamed kings.
بس طناب اندر گلو و تاج داربر وی انبوهی که اینک تاجدار
Many a rope is around a neck, yet they wear a crown,
With a crowd around them crying, 'Behold, the crowned one!'
هم چو گور کافران بیرون حللاندرون قهر خدا عز و جل
Like the graves of infidels, covered with robes outside,
But inside is the wrath of God, the Almighty, the Majestic.
چون قبور آن را مجصص کرده اندپرده پندار پیش آورده اند
Because they have plastered those graves,
They have drawn a veil of illusion before them.
طبع مسکینت مجصص از هنرهم چو نخل موم بی برگ و ثمر
Your wretched nature is plastered with superficial talents,
Like a waxen palm tree, devoid of leaves and fruit.'

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