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دفتر پنجم - بخش ۴۰ - حکایت محمد خوارزمشاه کی شهر سبزوار کی همه رافضی باشند به جنگ بگرفت اما جان خواستند گفت آنگه امان دهم کی ازین شهر پیش من به هدیه ابوبکر نامی بیارید / Book Five — Section 40 — The Story of Muhammad Khwarazmshah Who Captured the City of Sabzavar, Whose Inhabitants Were All Shi'ites (Rafizis), by War, but They Pleaded for Their Lives; He Said, 'I Will Grant Safety Only When You Bring Me as a Gift a Man Named Abu Bakr from This City'

متن و ترجمه / Text and Translation

شد محمد الپ الغ خوارزمشاهدر قتال سبزوار پر پناه
Muhammad Alp-Ulugh Khwarazmshah went
to war against the well-fortified Sabzavar.
تنگشان آورد لشکرهای اواسپهش افتاد در قتل عدو
His armies besieged them closely;
his soldiers fell upon killing the enemy.
سجده آوردند پیشش کالامانحلقه مان در گوش کن وا بخش جان
They prostrated before him, crying, 'Quarter!
Put the ring in our ears and spare our lives.
هر خراج و صلتی که بایدتآن ز ما هر موسمی افزایدت
Whatever tribute and gift you require,
it will increase from us each season.
جان ما آن توست ای شیرخوپیش ما چندی امانت باش گو
Our lives are yours, O lion-natured king;
let them remain with us for a while as a trust.'
گفت نرهانید از من جان خویشتا نیاریدم ابوبکری به پیش
He said, 'You shall not save your lives from me
until you bring an Abu Bakr before me!
تا مرا بوبکر نام از شهرتانهدیه نارید ای رمیده امتان
Until you bring me a gift named Abu Bakr from your town,
O strayed communities!
بدرومتان هم چو کشت ای قوم دوننه خراج استانم و نه هم فسون
I will harvest you like crops, O vile people;
I will accept neither tribute nor spell.'
بس جوال زر کشیدندش به راهکز چنین شهری ابوبکری مخواه
They dragged many sacks of gold to his path,
begging: 'Do not ask for an Abu Bakr from such a city!
کی بود بوبکر اندر سبزواریا کلوخ خشک اندر جویبار
How could there be an Abu Bakr in Sabzavar,
or a dry clod in a flowing stream?'
رو بتابید از زر و گفت ای مغانتا نیاریدم ابوبکر ارمغان
He turned his face away from the gold and said, 'O Magians!
Until you bring me Abu Bakr as a gift,
هیچ سودی نیست کودک نیستمتا به زر و سیم حیران بیستم
there is no benefit; I am not a child
to stand bewildered by gold and silver.
تا نیاری سجده نرهی ای زبونگر بپیمایی تو مسجد را به کون
Until you prostrate, you shall not escape, O helpless one,
even if you measure the mosque on your buttocks!'
منهیان انگیختند از چپ و راستکه اندرین ویرانه بوبکری کجاست
Heralds and searchers were dispatched left and right,
seeking: 'Where in this ruin is there an Abu Bakr?'
بعد سه روز و سه شب که اشتافتندیک ابوبکری نزاری یافتند
After three days and three nights of running to and fro,
they found a single, emaciated Abu Bakr.
ره گذر بود و بمانده از مرضدر یکی گوشه خرابه پر حرض
He was a traveler who had fallen ill,
lying in a corner of a ruin, wasted away by disease.
خفته بود او در یکی کنجی خرابچون بدیدندش بگفتندش شتاب
He was sleeping in a ruined corner;
when they saw him, they said to him, 'Hurry!
خیز که سلطان ترا طالب شدستکز تو خواهد شهر ما از قتل رست
Arise! For the Sultan is seeking you;
through you, our city will be saved from slaughter.'
گفت اگر پایم بدی یا مقدمیخود به راه خود به مقصد رفتمی
He said, 'If I had feet or the ability to walk,
I would have gone on my own way to my destination.
اندرین دشمن کده کی ماندمیسوی شهر دوستان می راندمی
Why would I have remained in this enemy-abode?
I would have driven toward the city of friends!'
تخته مرده کشان بفراشتندوان ابوبکر مرا برداشتند
They raised a bier
and carried my Abu Bakr on it.
سوی خوارمشاه حمالان کشانمی کشیدندش که تا بیند نشان
The bearers dragged and carried him to Khwarazmshah,
so that the king might see the token.
سبزوارست این جهان و مرد حقاندرین جا ضایعست و ممتحق
Sabzavar is this world, and the man of God
is wasted and annihilated in it.
هست خوارمشاه یزدان جلیلدل همی خواهد ازین قوم رذیل
Khwarazmshah is God Almighty,
who demands a 'Heart' from this vile folk.
گفت لا ینظر الی تصویرکمفابتغوا ذا القلب فی تدبیر کم
He said: 'He does not look at your outward form,
so seek the owner of the Heart in your planning.'
من ز صاحب دل کنم در تو نظرنه به نقش سجده و ایثار زر
'I look at you through the owner of the Heart,
not at the outward form of prostration or the offering of gold.
تو دل خود را چو دل پنداشتیجست و جوی اهل دل بگذاشتی
You imagined your own heart to be the Heart,
and you abandoned the search for the people of the Heart.
دل که گر هفصد چو این هفت آسماناندرو آید شود یاوه و نهان
The Heart is such that if seven hundred like these seven heavens
were to enter it, they would be lost and vanish.
این چنین دل ریزه ها را دل مگوسبزوار اندر ابوبکری بجو
Do not call these tiny heart-fragments 'the Heart';
seek an Abu Bakr in Sabzavar!
صاحب دل آینه شش رو شودحق ازو در شش جهت ناظر بود
The owner of the Heart becomes a six-sided mirror;
through him, God looks in all six directions.
هر که اندر شش جهت دارد مقرنکندش بی واسطه او حق نظر
Whoever has their dwelling in the six directions,
God does not look upon them without a mediator.
گر کند رد از برای او کندور قبول آرد همو باشد سند
If He rejects, He rejects for his sake;
and if He accepts, he is the authority.
بی ازو ندهد کسی را حق نوالشمه ای گفتم من از صاحب وصال
Without him, God gives no bounty to anyone;
I have spoken only a brief scent of the one who has attained union.
موهبت را بر کف دستش نهدوز کفش آن را به مرحومان دهد
He places the gift upon the palm of his hand,
and from his hand gives it to those who receive mercy.
با کفش دریای کل را اتصالهست بی چون و چگونه و بر کمال
With his hand, the universal ocean has a connection
that is without 'how' and 'why', and in absolute perfection—
اتصالی که نگنجد در کلامگفتنش تکلیف باشد والسلام
a connection that cannot be contained in speech;
to describe it is a burden, and that is all.'
صد جوال زر بیاری ای غنیحق بگوید دل بیار ای منحنی
'Even if you bring a hundred sacks of gold, O wealthy one,
God will say: 'Bring a Heart, O bowed-down one!'
گر ز تو راضیست دل من راضیمور ز تو معرض بود اعراضیم
'If the Heart is pleased with you, I am pleased;
and if it turns away from you, I turn away.
ننگرم در تو در آن دل بنگرمتحفه او را آر ای جان بر درم
I do not look at you, I look at that Heart;
bring its gift, O soul, to My door!
با تو او چونست هستم من چنانزیر پای مادران باشد جنان
How he is with you, I am likewise;
Heaven is under the feet of mothers.'
مادر و بابا و اصل خلق اوستای خنک آنکس که داند دل ز پوست
He is the mother, the father, and the origin of creation;
Oh, happy is he who knows the Heart from the husk!
تو بگویی نک دل آوردم به توگویدت پرست ازین دلها قتو
You might say, 'Behold, I have brought a heart to You,'
He will say to you, 'This graveyard is full of such hearts!
آن دلی آور که قطب عالم اوستجان جان جان جان آدم اوست
Bring that Heart which is the pole of the universe,
the soul of the soul of the soul of the soul of Adam!'
از برای آن دل پر نور و برهست آن سلطان دلها منتظر
For that luminous and blessed Heart,
the King of hearts is waiting.
تو بگردی روزها در سبزوارآنچنان دل را نیابی ز اعتبار
You may search for days in Sabzavar,
and you will not find such a Heart of value.
پس دل پژمرده پوسیده جانبر سر تخته نهی آن سو کشان
Then you place a withered, decayed, lifeless heart
upon the board, dragging it thither,
که دل آوردم ترا ای شهریاربه ازین دل نبود اندر سبزوار
Saying: 'I have brought you a heart, O King;
there was no better heart than this in Sabzavar.'
گویدت این گورخانه ست ای جریکه دل مرده بدینجا آوری
He will say to you: 'This is a cemetery, O audacious one!
Why do you bring a dead heart here?
رو بیاور آن دلی کو شاه خوستکه امان سبزوار کون ازوست
Go, bring that Heart which is of kingly nature,
for the safety of the Sabzavar of existence is from it!'
گویی آن دل زین جهان پنهان بودزانک ظلمت با ضیا ضدان بود
You might say: 'That Heart is hidden from this world,
because darkness and light are opposites.'
دشمنی آن دل از روز الستسبزوار طبع را میراثی است
Enmity toward that Heart, since the Day of Alast,
is an inheritance of the Sabzavar of human nature.
زانک او بازست و دنیا شهر زاغدیدن ناجنس بر ناجنس داغ
Because he is a falcon and the world is a city of crows;
seeing an unlike species is a brand on the unlike.
ور کند نرمی نفاقی می کندز استمالت ارتفاقی می کند
And if he shows gentleness, he does so out of hypocrisy;
he seeks some benefit from conciliation.
می کند آری نه از بهر نیازتا که ناصح کم کند نصح دراز
He does so, yes, but not out of true need;
rather, to make the counselor shorten his long counsel.
زانک این زاغ خس مردارجوصد هزاران مکر دارد تو به تو
For this vile, carrion-seeking crow
has a hundred thousand tricks, layer upon layer.
گر پذیرند آن نفاقش را رهیدشد نفاقش عین صدق مستفید
If they accept his hypocrisy, he escapes;
his hypocrisy becomes the very source of benefit.
زانک آن صاحب دل با کر و فرهست در بازار ما معیوب خر
For that owner of the Heart, with all his glory and power,
is a buyer of damaged goods in our marketplace.
صاحب دل جو اگر بی جان نه ایجنس دل شو گر ضد سلطان نه ای
Seek the owner of the Heart if you are not lifeless;
become of the same genus as the Heart if you are not an enemy of the King.
آنک زرق او خوش آید مر تراآن ولی تست نه خاص خدا
The one whose deceit and hypocrisy please you,
he is your guardian, not God's chosen.
هر که او بر خو و بر طبع تو زیستپیش طبع تو ولی است و نبیست
Whoever lived according to your temperament and nature,
is a saint and a prophet in the eyes of your nature.
رو هوا بگذار تا بویت شودوان مشام خوش عبرجویت شود
Go, abandon passion so that your scent-perception may return,
and that sweet-smelling sense of yours may seek ambergris.
از هوارانی دماغت فاسدستمشک و عنبر پیش مغزت کاسدست
Because of passion-following, your brain is corrupted;
musk and ambergris have lost their value before your intellect.
حد ندارد این سخن و آهوی مامی گریزد اندر آخر جابجا
There is no limit to this discourse, and our deer
flees in the end from place to place.'

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