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دفتر چهارم - بخش ۱۰۳ - قصهٔ باز پادشاه و کمپیر زن / Book Four - Section 103 - The Story of the King's Falcon and the Old Crone

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باز اسپیدی به کمپیری دهیاو ببرد ناخنش بهر بهی
A white falcon came to an old crone in a village;
she clipped its talons, thinking it for its good—
ناخنی که اصل کارست و شکارکور کمپیری ببرد کوروار
talons that are the very foundation of its work and hunt.
The blind old crone clipped them blindly,
که کجا بودست مادر که تراناخنان زین سان درازست ای کیا
saying: "Where was your mother, that
your talons have grown this long, O noble one?"
ناخن و منقار و پرش را بریدوقت مهر این می کند زال پلید
She clipped its talons, beak, and feathers—
in her season of affection, the vile hag does such things.
چونک تتماجش دهد او کم خوردخشم گیرد مهرها را بر درد
When she gives it tatamaaj it eats little;
she grows angry, tearing apart her affections,
که چنین تتماج پختم بهر توتو تکبر می نمایی و عتو
saying: "I cooked such tatamaaj for you,
yet you show arrogance and defiance!"
تو سزایی در همان رنج و بلانعمت و اقبال کی سازد ترا
"You deserve to remain in that same pain and affliction—
when will fortune and prosperity ever suit you?"
آب تتماجش دهد کین را بگیرگر نمی خواهی که نوشی زان فطیر
She offers it the tatamaaj: "Take this,
if you have no wish to partake of that flatbread."
آب تتماجش نگیرد طبع باززال بترنجد شود خشمش دراز
The falcon's nature refuses the broth of tatamaaj;
the hag is vexed, her anger grows long.
از غضب شربای سوزان بر سرشزن فرو ریزد شود کل مغفرش
In anger, the woman pours scalding broth over its head;
its entire head-crest is ruined.
اشک از آن چشمش فرو ریزد ز سوزیاد آرد لطف شاه دل فروز
Tears pour from its eyes from the burning;
it recalls the grace of the heart-illumining King—
زان دو چشم نازنین با دلالکه ز چهرهٔ شاد دارد صد کمال
those two tender, coquettish eyes
that hold a hundred perfections in the joyful countenance,
چشم مازاغش شده پر زخم زاغچشم نیک از چشم بد با درد و داغ
whose mazāgh gaze has become filled with crow-wounds (zāgh),
the wholesome eye branded and pained by the evil eye,
چشم دریا بسطتی کز بسط اوهر دو عالم می نماید تار مو
eyes of oceanic expanse, through whose breadth
both worlds appear as a single hair,
گر هزاران چرخ در چشمش رودهم چو چشمه پیش قلزم گم شود
such that if thousands of celestial spheres entered their gaze,
they would vanish like a spring before the Qulzum—
چشم بگذشته ازین محسوسهایافته از غیب بینی بوسها
eyes that have passed beyond all sensory things,
having received kisses from the sight of the unseen.
خود نمی یابم یکی گوشی که مننکته ای گویم از آن چشم حسن
I cannot find even one ear to which
I might speak a subtlety of that beautiful eye.
می چکید آن آب محمود جلیلمی ربودی قطره اش را جبرئیل
That glorious, praiseworthy water was dripping;
Gabriel would snatch each drop of it
تا بمالد در پر و منقال خویشگر دهد دستوریش آن خوب کیش
to rub upon his wings and beak,
if that one of beautiful faith would grant him leave.
باز گوید خشم کمپیر ار فروختفر و نور و علم و صبرم را نسوخت
The falcon says: "Even if the old crone's anger blazed,
it did not burn my glory, my light, my knowledge, and my patience.
باز جانم باز صد صورت تندزخم بر ناقه نه بر صالح زند
My soul is a falcon—a falcon of a hundred swift forms—
the blow falls on the she-camel, not on Sālih.
صالح از یک دم که آرد با شکوهصد چنان ناقه بزاید متن کوه
From a single majestic breath that Sālih draws,
a hundred such she-camels are born from the body of the mountain."
دل همی گوید خموش و هوش دارورنه درانید غیرت پود و تار
The heart keeps saying: "Be silent and stay heedful—
otherwise, ghayrat (divine jealousy) will rend warp and weft apart."
غیرتش را هست صد حلم نهانورنه سوزیدی به یک دم صد جهان
Within His jealousy lie a hundred forbearances hidden;
otherwise, a hundred worlds would burn in a single breath.
نخوت شاهی گرفتش جای پندتا دل خود را ز بند پند کند
Royal haughtiness seized him in place of counsel,
so that he might free his heart from the bondage of advice—
که کنم با رای هامان مشورتکوست پشت ملک و قطب مقدرت
saying: "I shall consult Haman on matters of opinion,
for he is the pillar of the realm and the axis of power."
مصطفی را رای زن صدیق ربرای زن بوجهل را شد بولهب
The Siddīq of the Lord was counselor to Mustafā;
Abū Lahab became counselor to Abū Jahl.
عرق جنسیت چنانش جذب کردکان نصیحتها به پیشش گشت سرد
The pull of kinship drew him so powerfully
that those counsels turned cold before him.
جنس سوی جنس صد پره پردبر خیالش بندها را بر درد
Like seeks like, flying a hundred wing-lengths;
it tears the bonds from his imagination.

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