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دفتر اول - بخش ۱۳۰ - در نمد دوختن زن عرب سبوی آب باران را و مهر نهادن بر وی از غایت اعتقاد عرب / Book One - Section 130 - The Arab Woman Sewing the Jug of Rainwater in Felt and Sealing It Out of the Utmost Belief of the Arab

متن و ترجمه / Text and Translation

مرد گفت آری سبو را سر ببندهین که این هدیه ست ما را سودمند
The man said, 'Yes, seal the jug,
Behold, this gift will be profitable to us.
در نمد در دوز تو این کوزه راتا گشاید شه به هدیه روزه را
Sew up this jug in felt,
So the king may break his fast with this gift.
کاین چنین اندر همه آفاق نیستجز رحیق و مایه ی اذواق نیست
For there is no water like this in all the world;
It is nothing but pure wine and the source of delight.
زانک ایشان ز آبهای تلخ و شوردایما پر علت اند و نیم کور
Because they, from drinking bitter and salty waters,
Are constantly diseased and half-blind.
مرغ کاب شور باشد مسکنشاو چه داند جای آب روشنش
The bird whose dwelling is in salty water,
What does it know of the place of clear water?
ای که اندر چشمه ی شورست جاتتو چه دانی شط و جیحون و فرات
O you whose place is in the salty spring,
What do you know of the Shatt (Tigris), the Oxus, and the Euphrates?
ای تو نارسته ازین فانی رباطتو چه دانی محو و سکر و انبساط
O you who have not escaped this mortal caravanserai,
What do you know of spiritual effacement, intoxication, and expansion?
ور بدانی نقلت از آب و جدستپیش تو این نامها چون ابجدست
And if you do know, your knowledge is merely by hearsay from ancestors;
To you, these names are just like the alphabet.
ابجد و هوز چه فاش است و پدیدبر همه طفلان و معنی بس بعید
How familiar and obvious are abjad and hawwaz
To all children, yet their true meaning is very remote!'
پس سبو برداشت آن مرد عربدر سفر شد می کشیدش روز و شب
Then the Arab man took up the jug;
He set out on the journey, carrying it day and night.
بر سبو لرزان بد از آفات دهرهم کشیدش از بیابان تا به شهر
Trembling for the jug against the calamities of time,
He carried it from the desert all the way to the city.
زن مصلا باز کرده از نیازرب سلم ورد کرده در نماز
The woman had unrolled her prayer mat in supplication,
Making 'O Lord, keep him safe' her litany in prayer:
که نگه دار آب ما را از خسانیا رب آن گوهر بدان دریا رسان
Saying, 'Protect our water from the wicked;
O Lord, deliver that pearl to that ocean!
گرچه شویم آگهست و پر فنستلیک گوهر را هزاران دشمنست
Even though my husband is cautious and full of skill,
Yet the pearl has a thousand enemies.'
خود چه باشد گوهر، آب کوثرستقطره ای زینست کاصل گوهرست
What indeed is the pearl? It is the water of Kawthar;
A mere drop of this is the essence of the pearl.
از دعاهای زن و زاری اووز غم مرد و گران باری او
Through the prayers of the woman and her lamentation,
And the anxiety of the man and his heavy burden,
سالم از دزدان و از آسیب سنگبرد تا دار الخلافه بی درنگ
Safe from thieves and the strike of stones,
He brought it to the Caliph's court without delay.
دید درگاهی پر از انعامهااهل حاجت گستریده دامها
He saw a court full of bounties,
Where the needy had spread their nets.
دم بدم هر سوی صاحب حاجتییافته زان در عطا و خلعتی
Moment by moment, from every side, someone with a need
Received a gift and a robe of honor from that door.
بهر گبر و مؤمن و زیبا و زشتهمچو خورشید و مطر نی چون بهشت
For the infidel and the believer, the beautiful and the ugly,
Like the sun and the rain, not like Paradise.
دید قومی در نظر آراستهقوم دیگر منتظر بر خاسته
He saw one group adorned in the royal gaze,
And another group standing up in anticipation.
خاص و عامه از سلیمان تا بمورزنده گشته چون جهان از نفخ صور
Elite and common, from Solomon to the ant,
Were brought to life like the world at the sounding of the trumpet.
اهل صورت در جواهر بافتهاهل معنی بحر معنی یافته
The people of outward form were draped in jewels,
While the people of inner meaning had found the sea of meaning.
آنک بی همت چه با همت شدهوانک با همت چه با نعمت شده
The one without aspiration had become ambitious,
And the one with aspiration had been granted abundant blessings.

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