1Cademy - دفتر چهارم - بخش ۱۱ - قصهٔ آن دباغ کی در بازار عطاران از بوی عطر و مشک بیهوش و رنجور شد / Book Four - Section 11 - The Tale of the Tanner Who Fell Unconscious and Sick in the Perfumers Bazaar from the Smell of Perfume and Musk

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مثنوی معنوی: دفتر چهارم / Masnavi: Book Four

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دفتر چهارم - بخش ۱۱ - قصهٔ آن دباغ کی در بازار عطاران از بوی عطر و مشک بیهوش و رنجور شد / Book Four - Section 11 - The Tale of the Tanner Who Fell Unconscious and Sick in the Perfumers' Bazaar from the Smell of Perfume and Musk

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آن یکی افتاد بیهوش و خمید	چونک در بازار عطاران رسید
A certain man fell unconscious and bent double when he arrived at the perfumers' bazaar.
بوی عطرش زد ز عطاران راد	تا بگردیدش سر و بر جا فتاد
The fragrance struck him from the generous perfumers till his head spun and he fell on the spot.
هم چو مردار اوفتاد او بی خبر	نیم روز اندر میان ره گذر
Like a corpse he lay senseless at midday in the midst of the thoroughfare.
جمع آمد خلق بر وی آن زمان	جملگان لاحول گو درمان کنان
The crowd gathered around him at that moment, all reciting lā ḥawl, attempting remedies.
آن یکی کف بر دل او می براند	وز گلاب آن دیگری بر وی فشاند
One rubbed his palm across the man's chest, and another sprinkled rosewater over him.
او نمی دانست کاندر مرتعه	از گلاب آمد ورا آن واقعه
He did not know that in that field it was the rosewater that had caused his swoon.
آن یکی دستش همی مالید و سر	وآن دگر کهگل همی آورد تر
One kept rubbing his hands and head, and another brought wet clay plaster.
آن بخور عود و شکر زد به هم	وآن دگر از پوششش می کرد کم
One burned aloeswood and sugar together as incense, and another was removing his garments.
وآن دگر نبضش که تا چون می جهد	وان دگر بوی از دهانش می ستد
And another felt his pulse to see how it beat, and another took the smell of his breath—
تا که می خوردست و یا بنگ و حشیش	خلق درماندند اندر بیهشیش
to see whether he had drunk wine, or bhang or hashish. The people were confounded by his unconsciousness.
پس خبر بردند خویشان را شتاب	که فلان افتاده است آن جا خراب
Then they swiftly brought the news to his kinsmen that so-and-so had fallen there in ruin.
کس نمی داند که چون مصروع گشت	یا چه شد کور افتاد از بام طشت
No one knows how he was struck with a fit, or what happened—did he fall sightless from the rooftop trough?
یک برادر داشت آن دباغ زفت	گربز و دانا بیامد زود تفت
That stout tanner had one brother, clever and wise, who came swiftly and in haste.
اندکی سرگین سگ در آستین	خلق را بشکافت و آمد با حنین
With a little dog dung in his sleeve he parted the crowd and came with yearning.
گفت من رنجش همی دانم ز چیست	چون سبب دانی دوا کردن جلیست
He said: I know well what his illness is from; when you know the cause, applying the cure is plain.
چون سبب معلوم نبود مشکلست	داروی رنج و در آن صد محملست
When the cause is not known, it is difficult; the remedy for the pain has a hundred interpretations.
چون بدانستی سبب را سهل شد	دانش اسباب دفع جهل شد
When you have known the cause, it becomes easy; knowledge of causes drives away ignorance.
گفت با خود هستش اندر مغز و رگ	توی بر تو بوی آن سرگین سگ
He said to himself: in his brain and veins layer upon layer is the smell of that dog dung.
تا میان اندر حدث او تا به شب	غرق دباغیست او روزی طلب
From morning until night he is immersed in filth; he is drowned in tanning, seeking his daily bread.
پس چنین گفته ست جالینوس مه	آنچ عادت داشت بیمار آنش ده
Thus great Galen has said: give the patient what he was accustomed to—
کز خلاف عادتست آن رنج او	پس دوای رنجش از معتاد جو
for his suffering is from going against his habit; so seek the remedy of his pain from what he is used to.
چون جعل گشتست از سرگین کشی	از گلاب آید جعل را بیهشی
Since the dung-beetle has become such through hauling dung, rosewater brings the dung-beetle to unconsciousness.
هم از آن سرگین سگ داروی اوست	که بدان او را همی معتاد و خوست
That same dog dung is his remedy, for he is accustomed to it and fond of it.
الخبیثات الخبیثین را بخوان	رو و پشت این سخن را باز دان
Recite al-khabīthātu lil-khabīthīn; go and understand the front and back of this saying.
ناصحان او را به عنبر یا گلاب	می دوا سازند بهر فتح باب
His well-wishers treat him with ambergris or rosewater, making medicine in hope of opening the way.
مر خبیثان را نسازد طیبات	درخور و لایق نباشد ای ثقات
Pure things do not suit the impure; they are not fitting and appropriate, O trustworthy ones.
چون ز عطر وحی کر گشتند و گم	بد فغانشان که تطیرنا بکم
When they became deaf and lost from the perfume of revelation, their cry was: tatayyarnā bikum.
رنج و بیماریست ما را این مقال	نیست نیکو وعظتان ما را به فال
This discourse is pain and illness to us; your sermons are not a good omen for us.
گر بیاغازید نصحی آشکار	ما کنیم آن دم شما را سنگسار
If you begin any open counsel, we will at that instant stone you.
ما بلغو و لهو فربه گشته ایم	در نصیحت خویش را نسرشته ایم
We have grown fat on idle talk and frivolity; we have not kneaded ourselves in counsel.
هست قوت ما دروغ و لاف و لاغ	شورش معده ست ما را زین بلاغ
Our nourishment is lies, boasting, and mockery; this eloquence churns our stomach.
رنج را صدتو و افزون می کنید	عقل را دارو به افیون می کنید
You increase the pain a hundredfold and more; you drug the intellect with opium.

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