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دفتر چهارم - بخش ۴۶ - باز آمدن آن شاعر بعد چند سال به امید همان صله و هزار دینار فرمودن بر قاعدهٔ خویش و گفتن وزیر نو هم حسن نام شاه را کی این سخت بسیارست و ما را خرجهاست و خزینه خالیست و من او را بده یک آن خشنود کنم / Book Four - Section 46 - The return of that poet after a few years in hope of the same bounty, and the king's ordering a thousand dinars according to his custom, and the new vizier, who was also named Hasan, telling the king, 'This is very much, and we have expenses, and the treas

متن و ترجمه / Text and Translation

بعد سالی چند بهر رزق و کشتشاعر از فقر و عوز محتاج گشت
After a few years, for the sake of sustenance and sowing,
The poet became needy due to poverty and destitution.
گفت وقت فقر و تنگی دو دستجست و جوی آزموده بهترست
He said, "In the time of poverty and tightness of both hands,
Searching for the tested one is better.
درگهی را که آزمودم در کرمحاجت نو را بدان جانب برم
The court that I have tested for its generosity,
I will take my new need in that direction."
معنی الله گفت آن سیبویهیولهون فی الحوائج هم لدیه
Sibawayh explained the meaning of 'Allah':
'They seek refuge in Him for their needs.'
گفت الهنا فی حوائجنا الیکوالتمسناها وجدناها لدیک
He said, 'We sought refuge in You for our needs,
And we sought them and found them with You.'
صد هزاران عاقل اندر وقت دردجمله نالان پیش آن دیان فرد
Hundreds of thousands of the wise, in times of pain,
Are all groaning before that peerless Judge.
هیچ دیوانهٔ فلیوی این کندبر بخیلی عاجزی کدیه تند
Would any mad fool do this:
To persistently beg from a miserly, helpless person?
گر ندیدندی هزاران بار بیشعاقلان کی جان کشیدندیش پیش
If they had not seen (His grace) thousands of times and more,
How would the wise have dragged their souls before Him?
بلک جملهٔ ماهیان در موجهاجملهٔ پرندگان بر اوجها
Nay, all the fishes in the waves,
All the birds in the heights,
پیل و گرگ و حیدر اشکار نیزاژدهای زفت و مور و مار نیز
The elephant and wolf and hunting lion too,
The huge dragon, the ant, and the snake as well,
بلک خاک و باد و آب و هر شرارمایه زو یابند هم دی هم بهار
Nay, earth and wind and water and every spark,
Find their substance from Him, both winter and spring.
هر دمش لابه کند این آسمانکه فرو مگذارم ای حق یک زمان
Every moment this sky implores Him:
'O Truth, do not let me fall for a single moment.
استن من عصمت و حفظ تو استجمله مطوی یمین آن دو دست
My pillar is Your protection and preservation,
All is folded in the right hand of those two hands.'
وین زمین گوید که دارم بر قرارای که بر آبم تو کردستی سوار
And this earth says, 'Keep me firmly established,
O You who have made me ride upon the water.'
جملگان کیسه ازو بر دوختنددادن حاجت ازو آموختند
All of them have sewn their purses from Him,
They have learned the granting of needs from Him.
هر نبیی زو برآورده براتاستعینوا منه صبرا او صلات
Every prophet has drawn a draft upon Him,
'Seek help from Him with patience or prayer.'
هین ازو خواهید نه از غیر اوآب در یم جو مجو در خشک جو
Beware! Seek from Him, not from other than Him;
Seek water in the sea, do not seek it in a dry riverbed.
ور بخواهی از دگر هم او دهدبر کف میلش سخا هم او نهد
And if you seek from another, He gives it too,
He places generosity in the palm of his inclination.
آنک معرض را ز زر قارون کندرو بدو آری به طاعت چون کند
He who turns an evader into Korah with gold,
If you turn to Him in obedience, what will He do?
بار دیگر شاعر از سودای دادروی سوی آن شه محسن نهاد
Once again, the poet, desiring justice and bounty,
Set his face toward that beneficent king.
هدیهٔ شاعر چه باشد شعر نوپیش محسن آرد و بنهد گرو
What is the gift of a poet? A new poem,
Which he brings before the beneficent one and pledges.
محسنان با صد عطا و جود و برزر نهاده شاعران را منتظر
Benefactors, with a hundred gifts, bounties, and virtues,
Have laid out gold, waiting for poets.
پیششان شعری به از صدتنگ شعرخاصه شاعر کو گهر آرد ز قعر
To them, one poem is better than a hundred half-loads of hair,
Especially a poet who brings pearls from the depth.
آدمی اول حریص نان بودزانک قوت و نان ستون جان بود
Man at first is greedy for bread,
Because food and bread are the pillar of the soul.
سوی کسب و سوی غصب و صد حیلجان نهاده بر کف از حرص و امل
Toward earning, toward usurping, and a hundred tricks,
He places his life on his palm out of greed and hope.
چون بنادر گشت مستغنی ز نانعاشق نامست و مدح شاعران
When he occasionally becomes independent of bread,
He becomes a lover of fame and the praise of poets,
تا که اصل و فصل او را بر دهنددر بیان فضل او منبر نهند
So that they may proclaim his lineage and branch,
And set up a pulpit to explain his excellence;
تا که کر و فر و زر بخشی اوهم چو عنبر بو دهد در گفت و گو
So that his pomp and splendor and gold-giving
May give forth a scent like ambergris in conversation.
خلق ما بر صورت خود کرد حقوصف ما از وصف او گیرد سبق
God created us in His own image,
Our qualities take their precedent from His qualities.
چونک آن خلاق شکر و حمدجوستآدمی را مدح جویی نیز خوست
Since that Creator seeks gratitude and praise,
Man also has the habit of seeking praise.
خاصه مرد حق که در فضلست چستپر شود زان باد چون خیک درست
Especially the man of God who is agile in excellence,
He is filled with that wind of inspiration and praise like a sound waterskin.
ور نباشد اهل زان باد دروغخیک بدریدست کی گیرد فروغ
And if he is not worthy of that false wind of praise,
He is a torn waterskin; how can he take on luster?
این مثل از خود نگفتم ای رفیقسرسری مشنو چو اهلی و مفیق
I did not say this parable from myself, O comrade,
Do not listen carelessly, as you are worthy and awake.
این پیمبر گفت چون بشنید قدحکه چرا فربه شود احمد به مدح
The Prophet said this when he heard criticism:
'Why does Ahmad become fat through praise?'
رفت شاعر پیش آن شاه و ببردشعر اندر شکر احسان کان نمرد
The poet went before that king and brought
A poem in gratitude for the beneficence that did not die.
محسنان مردند و احسانها بماندای خنک آن را که این مرکب براند
The benefactors died, but their beneficences remained;
O happy is he who drives this steed!
ظالمان مردند و ماند آن ظلمهاوای جانی کو کند مکر و دها
The oppressors died, and those oppressions remained;
Woe to the soul that practices deceit and cunning!
گفت پیغامبر خنک آن را که اوشد ز دنیا ماند ازو فعل نکو
The Messenger said, 'Happy is he who
Departed from the world, and left behind him good deeds.'
مرد محسن لیک احسانش نمردنزد یزدان دین و احسان نیست خرد
The benefactor died, but his beneficence did not die;
Before God, religion and beneficence are not small matters.
وای آنکو مرد و عصیانش نمودتا نپنداری به مرگ او جان ببرد
Woe to him who died, and his disobedience appeared and continued,
So do not think that by death he saved his soul.
این رها کن زانک شاعر بر گذروام دارست و قوی محتاج زر
Let this go, because the poet, on the way,
Is in debt and strongly in need of gold.
برد شاعر شعر سوی شهریاربر امید بخشش و احسان پار
The poet took the poem to the king,
In hope of the bestowal and beneficence of last year.
نازنین شعری پر از در درستبر امید و بوی اکرام نخست
A delicate poem full of perfect pearls,
In hope and scent of the first generosity.
شاه هم بر خوی خود گفتش هزارچون چنین بد عادت آن شهریار
The king, also following his own disposition, told him a thousand dinars,
Since such was the custom of that monarch.
لیک این بار آن وزیر پر ز جودبر براق عز ز دنیا رفته بود
But this time, that vizier full of bounty
Had departed from the world upon the Buraq of glory.
بر مقام او وزیر نو رئیسگشته لیکن سخت بی رحم و خسیس
In his place, a new vizier had become chief,
But he was very merciless and miserly.
گفت ای شه خرجها داریم ماشاعری را نبود این بخشش جزا
He said, 'O King, we have expenses;
This bestowal is not the proper reward for a poet.
من به ربع عشر این ای مغتنممرد شاعر را خوش و راضی کنم
With a fortieth of this, O fortunate one,
I will make the poet happy and satisfied.'
خلق گفتندش که او از پیش دستده هزاران زین دلاور برده است
The people told him, 'He, beforehand,
Has taken tens of thousands from this brave man.
بعد شکر کلک خایی چون کندبعد سلطانی گدایی چون کند
After eating sugar, how can he chew on a pen?
After kingship, how can he beg?'
گفت بفشارم ورا اندر فشارتا شود زار و نزار از انتظار
He said, 'I will press him in a press,
Until he becomes miserable and emaciated from waiting.
آنگه ار خاکش دهم از راه مندر رباید هم چو گلبرگ از چمن
Then, if I give him dust from my path,
He will snatch it away like a rose-petal from the meadow.
این به من بگذار که استادم درینگر تقاضاگر بود هر آتشین
Leave this to me, for I am a master in this;
Even if the demander is fiery and impatient,
از ثریا گر بپرد تا ثرینرم گردد چون ببیند او مرا
If he flies from the Pleiades to the earth,
He will become soft when he sees me.'
گفت سلطانش برو فرمان تراستلیک شادش کن که نیکوگوی ماست
His sultan said, 'Go, the command is yours;
But make him happy, for he speaks well of us.'
گفت او را و دو صد اومیدلیستو به من بگذار این بر من نویس
He said, 'For him and two hundred hoping lickers,
Leave this to me, write this upon me.'
پس فکندش صاحب اندر انتظارشد زمستان و دی و آمد بهار
Then the minister cast him into waiting;
Winter and December passed, and spring arrived.
شاعر اندر انتظارش پیر شدپس زبون این غم و تدبیر شد
The poet grew old in his waiting;
Then he became helpless against this sorrow and contrivance.
گفت اگر زر نه که دشنامم دهیتا رهد جانم ترا باشم رهی
He said, 'If you don't give gold, at least curse me,
So my soul may be freed and I may be your slave!
انتظارم کشت باری گو بروتا رهد این جان مسکین از گرو
Waiting has killed me; at least say, "Go!"
So this wretched soul may be freed from pledge.'
بعد از آنش داد ربع عشر آنماند شاعر اندر اندیشهٔ گران
After that, he gave him a fortieth of it;
The poet remained in heavy thought.
کانچنان نقد و چنان بسیار بوداین که دیر اشکفت دستهٔ خار بود
That former gift was such cash and so much;
This, which blossomed late, was a handful of thorns.
پس بگفتندش که آن دستور رادرفت از دنیا خدا مزدت دهاد
Then they said to him, 'That generous minister
Has departed from the world; may God give you a reward!
که مضاعف زو همی شد آن عطاکم همی افتاد بخشش را خطا
For that gift used to be multiplied by him;
Error in bestowal rarely occurred.'
این زمان او رفت و احسان را ببرداو نمرد الحق بلی احسان بمرد
This time, he went and took beneficence with him;
He did not die, in truth, but yes, beneficence died.
رفت از ما صاحب راد و رشید

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