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دفتر چهارم - بخش ۷۵ - قصهٔ آنک کسی به کسی مشورت می‌کرد گفتش مشورت با دیگری کن کی من عدوی توم / Book Four - Section 75 - The Tale of That One Who Was Seeking Counsel from Someone Who Told Him, 'Seek Counsel with Another, for I Am Your Enemy'

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مشورت می کرد شخصی با کسیکز تردد وا رهد وز محبسی
A certain person was seeking counsel from someone,
to be freed from hesitation and from confinement.
گفت ای خوش نام غیر من بجوماجرای مشورت با او بگو
He said: O good-named one, seek someone other than me;
tell your matter of consultation to that one.
من عدوم مر ترا با من مپیچنبود از رای عدو پیروز هیچ
I am your enemy — do not entangle yourself with me;
no one ever triumphs through an enemy's counsel.
رو کسی جو که ترا او هست دوستدوست بهر دوست لاشک خیرجوست
Go, seek one who is your friend;
a friend, for a friend, is doubtlessly a seeker of good.
من عدوم چاره نبود کز منیکژ روم با تو نمایم دشمنی
I am your enemy — there is no remedy, for I am what I am;
I will go crookedly with you and show you hostility.
حارسی از گرگ جستن شرط نیستجستن از غیر محل ناجستنیست
It is not proper to seek a guard from a wolf;
seeking from the wrong place is the same as not seeking.
من ترا بی هیچ شکی دشمنممن ترا کی ره نمایم ره زنم
I am, without any doubt, your enemy;
how could I show you the way? I am a highwayman to you.
هر که باشد همنشین دوستانهست در گلخن میان بوستان
Whoever is a companion of friends
is in the furnace-room as if in the midst of a garden.
هر که با دشمن نشیند در زمنهست او در بوستان در گولخن
Whoever sits with an enemy in this world
is in the garden as if in a furnace-room.
دوست را مازار از ما و منتتا نگردد دوست خصم و دشمنت
Do not injure your friend through ego and self-regard,
lest your friend become your adversary and enemy.
خیر کن با خلق بهر ایزدتیا برای راحت جان خودت
Do good to people for the sake of your God,
or for the comfort of your own soul,
تا هماره دوست بینی در نظردر دلت ناید ز کین ناخوش صور
So that you may always see friends before your eyes,
and no ugly images from hatred may enter your heart.
چونک کردی دشمنی پرهیز کنمشورت با یار مهرانگیز کن
Since you have made enmity, be on guard against it;
seek counsel with a love-inspiring companion.
گفت می دانم ترا ای بوالحسنکه توی دیرینه دشمن دار من
He said: I know you, O Abū'l-Ḥasan,
that you are my long-standing bearer of enmity.
لیک مرد عاقلی و معنویعقل تو نگذاردت که کژ روی
But you are a man of reason and of the spiritual realm;
your intellect will not allow you to go crookedly.
طبع خواهد تا کشد از خصم کینعقل بر نفس است بند آهنین
Nature desires to draw vengeance from the adversary;
intellect is an iron chain upon the nafs.
آید و منعش کند وا داردشعقل چون شحنه ست در نیک و بدش
It comes and restrains it, holds it back;
intellect is like a shaḥna in its good and evil.
عقل ایمانی چو شحنهٔ عادلستپاسبان و حاکم شهر دلست
The intellect of faith is like a just shaḥna;
it is the guardian and ruler of the city of the heart.
هم چو گربه باشد او بیدارهوشدزد در سوراخ ماند هم چو موش
Like a cat, it is alert in its awareness;
the thief remains in the hole like a mouse.
در هر آنجا که برآرد موش دستنیست گربه یا که نقش گربه است
Wherever a mouse extends its hand to act,
there is no cat, or there is only the image of a cat.
گربهٔ چه شیر شیرافکن بودعقل ایمانی که اندر تن بود
What a cat — nay, a lion, a lion-toppler —
is the intellect of faith that dwells within the body!
غرهٔ او حاکم درندگاننعرهٔ او مانع چرندگان
Its growl is the ruler of predators;
its roar is a barrier to grazers.
شهر پر دزدست و پر جامه کنیخواه شحنه باش گو و خواه نی
The city is full of thieves and garment-strippers;
whether you are a shaḥna, say so, or whether not.

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