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دفتر پنجم - بخش ۴۶ - مثال عالم هست نیست‌نما و عالم نیست هست‌نما / Book Five - Section 46 - The Parable of the Existent World That Appears Non-Existent and the Non-Existent World That Appears Existent

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نیست را بنمود هست و محتشمهست را بنمود بر شکل عدم
He made the non-existent appear as existent and magnificent;
He made the existent appear in the form of non-existence.
بحر را پوشید و کف کرد آشکارباد را پوشید و بنمودت غبار
He concealed the ocean and made the foam visible;
He concealed the wind and showed you the dust.
چون مناره خاک پیچان در هواخاک از خود چون برآید بر علا
Like a minaret, the dust is spinning in the air;
how could the dust rise on high by itself?
خاک را بینی به بالا ای علیلباد را نی جز به تعریف دلیل
You see the dust on high, O infirm one,
but you do not see the wind except by way of inference.
کف همی بینی روانه هر طرفکف بی دریا ندارد منصرف
You see the foam moving in every direction,
but foam has no movement without the ocean.
کف به حس بینی و دریا از دلیلفکر پنهان آشکارا قال و قیل
You see the foam by sense perception, but the ocean through inference;
just as thought is hidden, while speech and talk are manifest.
نفی را اثبات می پنداشتیمدیده معدوم بینی داشتیم
We imagined negation to be affirmation;
we possessed an eye that could only see the non-existent.
دیده ای که اندر نعاسی شد پدیدکی تواند جز خیال و نیست دید
The eye that has emerged in a state of drowsiness,
how can it see anything except illusion and non-existence?
لاجرم سرگشته گشتیم از ضلالچون حقیقت شد نهان پیدا خیال
Consequently, we became bewildered in error,
when reality became hidden and fantasy appeared.
این عدم را چون نشاند اندر نظرچون نهان کرد آن حقیقت از بصر
How did He place this non-existence before our eyes?
How did He conceal that reality from our sight?
آفرین ای اوستاد سحربافکه نمودی معرضان را درد صاف
Bravo, O master weaver of magic,
who showed the dregs as pure wine to those who turn away!
ساحران مهتاب پیمایند زودپیش بازرگان و زر گیرند سود
Sorcerers measure out the moonlight quickly
before the merchant and take gold as profit.
سیم بربایند زین گون پیچ پیچسیم از کف رفته و کرباس هیچ
They snatch the silver in this twisted manner;
the silver is gone from the hand, and the linen is nothing.
این جهان جادوست ما آن تاجریمکه ازو مهتاب پیموده خریم
This world is a magician, and we are that merchant
who buys measured moonlight from it.
گز کند کرباس پانصد گز شتابساحرانه او ز نور ماهتاب
It measures out five hundred yards of linen in haste,
magically from the light of the moon.
چون ستد او سیم عمرت ای رهیسیم شد کرباس نی کیسه تهی
When it has taken the silver of your life, O servant,
the silver is gone, there is no linen, and the purse is empty!
قل اعوذت خواند باید کای احدهین ز نفاثات افغان وز عقد
One must recite 'Say: I seek refuge', O One,
behold, wailing from the blowers upon knots.
می دمند اندر گره آن ساحراتالغیاث المستغاث از برد و مات
Those sorceresses blow into the knots;
help, help from their winning and our losing!
لیک بر خوان از زبان فعل نیزکه زبان قول سستست ای عزیز
But recite it from the tongue of action as well,
for the tongue of speech is weak, O dear friend.
در زمانه مر ترا سه همره اندآن یکی وافی و این دو غدرمند
In this world, you have three companions;
one is faithful, and these two are treacherous.
آن یکی یاران و دیگر رخت و مالوآن سوم وافیست و آن حسن الفعال
The first is friends, the second is goods and wealth;
and the third, which is faithful, is your good deeds.
مال ناید با تو بیرون از قصوریار آید لیک آید تا به گور
Wealth will not come out with you from your palaces;
the friend will come, but only as far as the grave.
چون ترا روز اجل آید به پیشیار گوید از زبان حال خویش
When the day of your death comes before you,
the friend says through the tongue of their state:
تا بدینجا بیش همره نیستمبر سر گورت زمانی بیستم
'I am not your companion any further than this;
I will stand for a moment at the head of your grave.'
فعل تو وافیست زو کن ملتحدکه در آید با تو در قعر لحد
Your action is faithful; make it your refuge,
for it will enter with you into the depths of the tomb.

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