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دفتر چهارم - بخش ۹۸ - تفسیر کُنْتُ کَنْزاً مَخْفیّاً فَأَحْبَبْتُ اَنْ اُعْرَفَ / Book Four - Section 98 - Commentary on 'I was a hidden treasure, and I loved to be known'

متن و ترجمه / Text and Translation

خانه بر کن کز عقیق این یمنصد هزاران خانه شاید ساختن
Tear down the house, for from the carnelian of this Yemen
Hundreds of thousands of houses can be built.
گنج زیر خانه است و چاره نیستاز خرابی خانه مندیش و مه ایست
The treasure lies beneath the house, and there is no remedy;
Do not flinch from the ruining of the house, and do not pause;
که هزاران خانه از یک نقد گنجتان عمارت کرد بی تکلیف و رنج
For a thousand houses from the cash of one treasure
Can be built without toil and pain.
عاقبت این خانه خود ویران شودگنج از زیرش یقین عریان شود
In the end, this house will fall into ruin of itself,
And the treasure beneath it will surely be laid bare.
لیک آن تو نباشد زانک روحمزد ویران کردنستش آن فتوح
But it will not be yours, because the spirit
Finds its reward for ruining (the house) in that spiritual conquest.
چون نکرد آن کار مزدش هست لالیس للانسان الا ما سعی
Since it did not do that work, its wage is naught:
'Man has nothing but what he strives for.'
دست خایی بعد از آن تو کای دریغاین چنین ماهی بد اندر زیر میغ
You will bite your hand afterwards (saying), 'Alas!
Such a moon was beneath the cloud!
من نکردم آنچ گفتند از بهیگنج رفت و خانه و دستم تهی
I did not do what they told me out of goodness;
The treasure is gone, and the house, and my hand is empty.'
خانهٔ اجرت گرفتی و کرینیست ملک تو به بیعی یا شری
You have taken a house for wages and on lease:
It is not your property by any purchase or sale.
این کری را مدت او تا اجلتا درین مدت کنی در وی عمل
The term of this lease is until death,
In order that during this term you may do work within it.
پاره دوزی می کنی اندر دکانزیر این دکان تو مدفون دو کان
You are engaged in patching (garments) in the shop,
While beneath this shop of yours two mines are buried.
هست این دکان کرایی زود باشتیشه بستان و تکش را می تراش
This shop is leased; be quick!
Take an adze and scrape its foundation,
تا که تیشه ناگهان بر کان نهیاز دکان و پاره دوزی وا رهی
So that suddenly you may set the adze upon the mine,
And be delivered from the shop and the patching.
پاره دوزی چیست خورد آب و نانمی زنی این پاره بر دلق گران
What is the patching? The eating of water and bread:
You are putting this patch upon the heavy cloak (the body).
هر زمان می درد این دلق تنتپاره بر وی می زنی زین خوردنت
Every moment this cloak of your body is being torn:
You are putting a patch upon it by this eating.
ای ز نسل پادشاه کامیاربا خود آ زین پاره دوزی ننگ دار
O you who are of the lineage of the successful King,
Come to yourself! Be ashamed of this patching!
پاره ای بر کن ازین قعر دکانتا برآرد سر به پیش تو دو کان
Tear up a piece from the depths of this shop,
So that two mines may raise their heads before you,
پیش از آن کین مهلت خانهٔ کریآخر آید تو نخورده زو بری
Before this respite of the leased house
Comes to an end without your having eaten any fruit from it.
پس ترا بیرون کند صاحب دکانوین دکان را بر کند از روی کان
Then the Owner of the shop will drive you out,
And will tear up this shop from over the mine.
تو ز حسرت گاه بر سر می زنیگاه ریش خام خود بر می کنی
You, out of regret, will sometimes beat your head,
And sometimes tear your raw beard,
کای دریغا آن من بود این دکانکور بودم بر نخوردم زین مکان
Saying, 'Alas! This shop was mine!
I was blind and gained no fruit from this place.'
ای دریغا بود ما را برد بادتا ابد یا حسرتا شد للعباد
'Alas! The wind has carried away our existence;
Unto all eternity (the cry) "Oh, the regret!" has become (the lot) of His servants.'

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