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دفتر چهارم - بخش ۶۱ - نصیحت دنیا اهل دنیا را به زبان حال و بی‌وفایی خود را نمودن به وفا طمع دارندگان ازو / Book Four - Section 61 - The World's Counsel to the People of the World by its Unspoken State and Showing its Faithlessness to Those Who Expect Faithfulness from It

متن و ترجمه / Text and Translation

گفت بنمودم دغل لیکن ترااز نصیحت باز گفتم ماجرا
She said: I showed deceit, but to you
through counsel I retold the story again.
هم چنین دنیا اگر چه خوش شکفتبانگ زد هم بی وفایی خویش گفت
Likewise the world—though it blooms fair—
cried out and declared its own faithlessness.
اندرین کون و فساد ای اوستادآن دغل کون و نصیحت آن فساد
In this generation and corruption, O master,
that deceit is the generation, and the counsel is the corruption.
کون می گوید بیا من خوش پیموآن فسادش گفته رو من لا شی ام
Generation says: Come, I am sweet-natured;
and its corruption has said: Go, I am nothing.
ای ز خوبی بهاران لب گزانبنگر آن سردی و زردی خزان
O you who bite your lip at spring's beauty,
behold that coldness and yellowing of autumn.
روز دیدی طلعت خورشید خوبمرگ او را یاد کن وقت غروب
By day you saw the fair face of the sun;
at the hour of sunset, remember its death.
بدر را دیدی برین خوش چار طاقحسرتش را هم ببین اندر محاق
You saw the full moon on this pleasant four-arched vault;
see also its grief in the dark of the wane.
کودکی از حسن شد مولای خلقبعد فردا شد خرف رسوای خلق
A child through beauty became master of all people;
the next day he became dotard, the disgrace of all people.
گر تن سیمین تنان کردت شکاربعد پیری بین تنی چون پنبه زار
If silver-bodied ones made you their prey,
after old age see a body like a cotton field.
ای بدیده لوتهای چرب خیزفضلهٔ آن را ببین در آب ریز
O you who have seen rich and bounteous feasts,
see the remnants of that in the drain.
مر خبث را گو که آن خوبیت کوبر طبق آن ذوق و آن نغزی و بو
Say to the filth: where is that beauty of yours—
that taste and fineness and fragrance on the platter?
گوید او آن دانه بد من دام آنچون شدی تو صید شد دانه نهان
It says: That grain was I; that trap was I.
When you became prey, the grain was hidden.
بس انامل رشک استادان شدهدر صناعت عاقبت لرزان شده
Many fingers that became the envy of masters
in craft—at last became trembling.
نرگس چشم خمار هم چو جانآخر اعمش بین و آب از وی چکان
The narcissus eye, languorous like the soul—
at last see it bleary-eyed and dripping.
حیدری کاندر صف شیران رودآخر او مغلوب موشی می شود
A lion-hearted one who walks in the rank of lions
at last becomes overcome by a mouse.
طبع تیز دوربین محترفچون خر پیرش ببین آخر خرف
The sharp, far-sighted, expert temperament—
see it at last like an old donkey, senile.
زلف جعد مشکبار عقل برآخرا چون دم زشت خنگ خر
The curly, musk-scented lock that steals reason—
in the end, like the ugly tail of a grey donkey.
خوش ببین کونش ز اول باگشادوآخر آن رسواییش بین و فساد
See pleasantly how its genesis from the first was all opening,
and see at last its disgrace and corruption.
زانک او بنمود پیدا دام راپیش تو بر کند سبلت خام را
For it openly showed you the trap;
before you it stripped your raw beard.
پس مگو دنیا به تزویرم فریفتورنه عقل من ز دامش می گریخت
So do not say: The world deceived me with trickery,
otherwise my intellect would have fled from its trap.
طوق زرین و حمایل بین هلهغل و زنجیری شدست و سلسله
Behold the golden collar and the necklace—hark!
It has become a shackle, a chain, and fetters.
همچنین هر جزو عالم می شمراول و آخر در آرش در نظر
Likewise, count every part of the world;
bring its beginning and end into view.
هر که آخربین تر او مسعودترهر که آخوربین تر او مطرودتر
Whoever sees the end more clearly is the more blessed;
whoever sees the end more clearly is the more expelled.
روی هر یک چون مه فاخر ببینچونک اول دیده شد آخر ببین
See the face of each one like a proud and glorious moon;
when the beginning is seen, see the end.
تا نباشی هم چو ابلیس اعورینیم بیند نیم نی چون ابتری
So that you may not be like one-eyed Iblis:
he sees half, and the other half not, like a docked thing.
دید طین آدم و دینش ندیداین جهان دید آن جهان بینش ندید
He saw the clay of Adam but did not see his faith;
he saw this world, did not see his vision of the next.
فضل مردان بر زنان ای بو شجاعنیست بهر قوت و کسب و ضیاع
The superiority of men over women, O Abu Shuja,
is not for the sake of strength and earnings and estates.
ورنه شیر و پیل را بر آدمیفضل بودی بهر قوت ای عمی
Otherwise lion and elephant over man
would have superiority in strength, O blind one.
فضل مردان بر زن ای حالی پرستزان بود که مرد پایان بین ترست
The superiority of men over women, O worshipper of the present moment,
is because man is more far-sighted toward the end.
مرد کاندر عاقبت بینی خمستاو ز اهل عاقبت چون زن کمست
A man who is deficient in beholding the end—
in the realm of end-sightedness he is less than a woman.
از جهان دو بانگ می آید به ضدتا کدامین را تو باشی مستعد
From the world two opposing cries come,
to see for which one you are prepared.
آن یکی بانگش نشور اتقیاوان یکی بانگش فریب اشقیا
The cry of one is the awakening of the pious;
the cry of the other is the temptation of the wicked.
من شکوفهٔ خارم ای خوش گرمدارگل بریزد من بمانم شاخ خار
I am the blossom of a thorn, O pleasant warm-keeper—
the flower will fall; I will remain as the thorny branch.
بانگ اشکوفه ش که اینک گل فروشبانگ خار او که سوی ما مکوش
The cry of its blossom: Here I am, a seller of roses!
The cry of its thorn: Do not strive toward us!
این پذیرفتی بماندی زان دگرکه محب از ضد محبوبست کر
You accepted this and remained deaf to the other,
for the lover is deaf to what is contrary to the beloved.
آن یکی بانگ این که اینک حاضرمبانگ دیگر بنگر اندر آخرم
The cry of one: Here I am, present!
The cry of the other: Look at my end!
حاضری ام هست چون مکر و کمیننقش آخر ز آینهٔ اول ببین
My presence is like a trick and an ambush;
see the image of the end in the mirror of the beginning.
چون یکی زین دو جوال اندر شدیآن دگر را ضد و نا درخور شدی
When you have entered into one of these two saddlebags,
the other becomes contrary and unsuitable for you.
ای خنک آنکو ز اول آن شنیدکش عقول و مسمع مردان شنید
How fortunate the one who heard that from the first,
whose intellect and ears men of wisdom hear with.
خانه خالی یافت و جا را او گرفتغیر آنش کژ نماید یا شگفت
He found the house empty and took the place;
everything other than that appears to him crooked or strange.
کوزهٔ نو کو به خود بولی کشیدآن خبث را آب نتواند برید
The new jug that drew filth into itself—
water cannot remove that filth.
در جهان هر چیز چیزی می کشدکفر کافر را و مرشد را رشد
In the world, everything attracts something:
disbelief draws the disbeliever, and right-guidance draws the guide.
کهربا هم هست و مغناطیس هستتا تو آهن یا کهی آیی بشست
Amber too exists, and magnet too exists,
so that you may come to be cleansed, whether iron or straw.
برد مغناطیست ار تو آهنیور کهی بر کهربا بر می تنی
The magnet will carry you off if you are iron;
and if you are straw, you cling to the amber.
آن یکی چون نیست با اخیار یارلاجرم شد پهلوی فجار جار
Since one is not a companion to the good,
inevitably he became a neighbor beside the wicked.
هست موسی پیش قبطی بس ذمیمهست هامان پیش سبطی بس رجیم
Moses is very despised before the Copt;
Haman is very accursed before the Israelite.
جان هامان جاذب قبطی شدهجان موسی طالب سبطی شده
The soul of Haman has become the attractor of the Copt;
the soul of Moses has become the seeker of the Israelite.
معدهٔ خر که کشد در اجتذابمعدهٔ آدم جذوب گندم آب
The donkey's stomach—what does it draw in its attraction?
The stomach of Adam is drawn to wheat and water.
گر تو نشناسی کسی را از ظلامبنگر او را کوش سازیدست امام
If you do not know someone through the obscurity,
look at him: whom has he made his imam?

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