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دفتر چهارم - بخش ۲ - تمامی حکایت آن عاشق که از عسس گریخت در باغی مجهول خود معشوق را در باغ یافت و عسس را از شادی دعای خیر می‌کرد و می‌گفت کی عَسی أَنْ تَکْرَهوا شَیْئاً وَ هُوَ خَیْرٌ لَکُمْ / Book Four - Section 2 - The Complete Tale of That Lover Who Fled from the Night Watchman into an Unknown Garden, Found His Beloved in the Garden, and out of Joy Prayed for the Night Watchman, Saying, 'Perhaps You Dislike a Thing and It Is Good for You'

متن و ترجمه / Text and Translation

اندر آن بودیم کان شخص از عسسراند اندر باغ از خوفی فرس
We were in that [discussion] when that person, out of fear,
spurred his horse from the watchman into the garden.
بود اندر باغ آن صاحب جمالکز غمش این در عنا بد هشت سال
In that garden was that beautiful beloved,
for whose grief he had been in torment for eight years.
سایهٔ او را نبود امکان دیدهم چو عنقا وصف او را می شنید
It was impossible to see even her shadow;
like the Phoenix, he only heard her description.
جز یکی لقیه که اول از قضابر وی افتاد و شد او را دلربا
Save for one encounter which at first by destiny
befell him and she became his heart-stealer.
بعد از آن چندان که می کوشید اوخود مجالش می نداد آن تندخو
After that, however much he strived,
that hot-tempered one gave him no opportunity at all.
نه به لابه چاره بودش نه به مالچشم پر و بی طمع بود آن نهال
Neither supplication nor wealth was a remedy;
that young sapling had full eyes and was without greed.
عاشق هر پیشه ای و مطلبیحق بیالود اول کارش لبی
For the lover of every profession and pursuit,
God wets his lips at the start of the affair [with a taste of success].
چون بدان آسیب در جست آمدندپیش پاشان می نهد هر روز بند
When by that touch they enter the search,
He places obstacles before their feet every day.
چون در افکندش بجست و جوی کاربعد از آن در بست که کابین بیار
When He has cast him into the search for the task,
He then shuts the door, saying, 'Bring the bridal gift!'
هم بر آن بو می تنند و می روندهر دمی راجی و آیس می شوند
They weave [their hopes] and go on that very scent;
every moment they become hopeful and despondent.
هر کسی را هست اومید بریکه گشادندش در آن روزی دری
Everyone has the hope of a fruit,
since a door was opened to them one day.
باز در بستندش و آن درپرستبر همان اومید آتش پا شدست
Then they closed it on him, and that door-worshipper
has become restless upon that same hope.
چون درآمد خوش در آن باغ آن جوانخود فرو شد پا به گنجش ناگهان
When that youth happily entered that garden,
suddenly his foot sank into treasure.
مر عسس را ساخته یزدان سببتا ز بیم او دود در باغ شب
The Lord had made the watchman a cause,
so that out of fear of him, he would run into the garden at night.
بیند آن معشوقه را او با چراغطالب انگشتری در جوی باغ
And see that beloved with a lamp,
seeking a ring in the stream of the garden.
پس قرین می کرد از ذوق آن نفسبا ثنای حق دعای آن عسس
So at that moment, out of pure delight, he coupled
the praise of God with a prayer for that watchman,
که زیان کردم عسس را از گریزبیست چندان سیم و زر بر وی بریز
Saying, 'I caused loss to the watchman by fleeing;
pour twenty times as much silver and gold upon him!
از عوانی مر ورا آزاد کنآنچنان که شادم او را شاد کن
Deliver him from being a watchman,
and make him happy just as He made me happy.
سعد دارش این جهان و آن جهاناز عوانی و سگی اش وا رهان
Make him prosperous in this world and the next,
and deliver him from oppression and dog-like nature.
گرچه خوی آن عوان هست ای خداکه هماره خلق را خواهد بلا
Though the nature of that oppressor is, O God,
that he always wishes calamity upon people.
گر خبر آید که شه جرمی نهادبر مسلمانان شود او زفت و شاد
If news comes that the king has imposed a fine
on Muslims, he becomes stout and joyful.
ور خبر آید که شه رحمت نموداز مسلمانان فکند آن را به جود
And if news comes that the king has shown mercy
and lifted that [burden] from Muslims by his generosity,
ماتمی در جان او افتد از آنصد چنین ادبارها دارد عوان
A mourning falls upon his soul because of that;
the oppressor has a hundred such miseries.'
او عوان را در دعا در می کشیدکز عوان او را چنان راحت رسید
Yet he included the oppressor in his prayers,
because from the oppressor such comfort had reached him.
بر همه زهر و برو تریاق بودآن عوان پیوند آن مشتاق بود
To all he was poison, but to him he was the antidote;
that watchman was the link [to the beloved] for that longing one.
پس بد مطلق نباشد در جهانبد به نسبت باشد این را هم بدان
Therefore, absolute evil does not exist in the world;
know that evil is relative.
در زمانه هیچ زهر و قند نیستکه یکی را پا دگر را بند نیست
There is no poison or sugar in the world
which is not a foot to one and a shackle to another.
مر یکی را پا دگر را پای بندمر یکی را زهر و بر دیگر چو قند
To one it is a foot, to another a foot-shackle;
to one it is poison, and to another like sugar.
زهر مار آن مار را باشد حیاتنسبتش با آدمی باشد ممات
The snake's venom is life to the snake,
but its relation to human beings is death.
خلق آبی را بود دریا چو باغخلق خاکی را بود آن مرگ و داغ
To the water-creatures, the sea is like a garden;
to the land-creatures, it is death and brand.
همچنین بر می شمر ای مرد کارنسبت این از یکی کس تا هزار
Count likewise, O man of action,
this relation from one to a thousand.
زید اندر حق آن شیطان بوددر حق شخصی دگر سلطان بود
Zayd may be a devil in the eyes of one,
while in the eyes of another person he is a sovereign.
آن بگوید زید صدیق سنیستوین بگوید زید گبر کشتنیست
This one says Zayd is a truthful and noble man,
and that one says Zayd is an infidel deserving of death.
گر تو خواهی کو ترا باشد شکرپس ورا از چشم عشاقش نگر
If you wish that he should be sugar to you,
then look at him through the eyes of his lovers.
منگر از چشم خودت آن خوب رابین به چشم طالبان مطلوب را
Do not look at that beautiful one through your own eyes;
look at the desired one through the eyes of the seekers.
چشم خود بر بند زان خوش چشم توعاریت کن چشم از عشاق او
Close your own eyes to that beautiful eye of yours;
borrow an eye from his lovers.
بلک ازو کن عاریت چشم و نظرپس ز چشم او بروی او نگر
Nay, borrow eye and sight from Him,
and then look upon His face through His eye,
تا شوی آمن ز سیری و ملالگفت کان الله له زین ذوالجلال
So that you may be secure from satiety and weariness;
for the Lord of Glory said: 'Whoso is for God, [God is for him].'
چشم او من باشم و دست و دلشتا رهد از مدبریها مقبلش
I will be his eye, his hand, and his heart,
so that his blessed one may be delivered from adversity.
هر چه مکروه ست چون شد او دلیلسوی محبوبت حبیبست و خلیل
Whatever is disliked, when it becomes a guide
towards your beloved, is a friend and a dear companion.

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