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دفتر اول - بخش ۳۴ - منازعت امرا در ولی عهدی / Book One - Section 34 - The Dispute of the Amirs over the Succession

متن و ترجمه / Text and Translation

یک امیری زان امیران پیش رفتپیش آن قوم وفا اندیش رفت
One amir from among those amirs stepped forward and came before that people who were thinking of loyalty.
گفت اینک نایب آن مرد مننایب عیسی منم اندر زمن
He said, “Behold, I am the deputy of that man; I am the deputy of Jesus in this age.
اینک این طومار برهان منستکین نیابت بعد ازو آن منست
Behold, this scroll is my proof that this deputyship after him is mine.”
آن امیر دیگر آمد از کمیندعوی او در خلافت بد همین
Another amir came out from ambush; his claim to the succession was the same.
از بغل او نیز طوماری نمودتا برآمد هر دو را خشم جهود
He too produced a scroll from his breast, until the anger of both of them rose to Jewish fury.
آن امیران دگر یک یک قطاربرکشیده تیغهای آبدار
The other amirs, one by one in a line, had drawn bright, tempered swords.
هر یکی را تیغ و طوماری به دستدرهم افتادند چون پیلان مست
Each had a sword and a scroll in hand; they fell upon one another like drunken elephants.
صد هزاران مرد ترسا کشته شدتا ز سرهای بریده پشته شد
Hundreds of thousands of Christians were killed, until a mound was made of severed heads.
خون روان شد همچو سیل از چپ و راستکوه کوه اندر هوا زین گرد خاست
Blood flowed like a flood on left and right; from this, mountain on mountain of dust rose into the air.
تخم های فتنه ها کو کشته بودآفت سرهای ایشان گشته بود
The seeds of strife that he had sown had become the destruction of their heads.
جوزها بشکست و آن کان مغز داشتبعد کشتن روح پاک نغز داشت
The walnuts were broken, and whichever one had a kernel, after being killed, had a pure, excellent soul.
کشتن و مردن که بر نقش تنستچون انار و سیب را بشکستنست
Killing and dying, which apply to the form of the body, are like breaking open a pomegranate or apple.
آنچ شیرینست او شد ناردانگوانک پوسیده ست نبود غیر بانگ
That which is sweet becomes pomegranate seeds; that which is rotten is nothing but noise.
آنچ با معنیست خود پیدا شودوانچ پوسیده ست او رسوا شود
That which has meaning shows itself, and that which is rotten is exposed.
رو بمعنی کوش ای صورت پرستزانک معنی بر تن صورت پرست
Go, strive for meaning, O worshipper of form, for meaning is the wing of the body’s form.
همنشین اهل معنی باش تاهم عطا یابی و هم باشی فتیٰ
Be a companion of the people of meaning, so that you may receive both bounty and manly nobility.
جان بی معنی درین تن بی خلافهست همچون تیغ چوبین در غلاف
A soul without meaning in this body, without doubt, is like a wooden sword in a scabbard.
تا غلاف اندر بود باقیمتستچون برون شد سوختن را آلتست
So long as it is in the scabbard it has value; when it is drawn, it is fit only for burning.
تیغ چوبین را مبر در کارزاربنگر اول تا نگردد کار زار
Do not take a wooden sword into battle; first examine it, lest the affair become grievous.
گر بود چوبین برو دیگر طلبور بود الماس پیش آ با طرب
If it is wooden, go seek another; if it is diamond, come forward joyfully.
تیغ در زرادخانهٔ اولیاستدیدن ایشان شما را کیمیاست
The sword is in the saints’ armory; seeing them is alchemy for you.
جمله دانایان همین گفته همینهست دانا رحمة للعالمین
All the wise have said this same thing: the wise one is a mercy to the worlds.
گر اناری می خری خندان بخرتا دهد خنده ز دانهٔ او خبر
If you are buying a pomegranate, buy one split open in laughter, so that its laughter gives news of its seeds.
ای مبارک خنده اش کو از دهانمی نماید دل چو در از درج جان
Blessed is its laughter, for from its mouth it shows the heart like a pearl from the casket of the soul.
نامبارک خندهٔ آن لاله بودکز دهان او سیاهی دل نمود
Unblessed was the laughter of that tulip, for from its mouth it showed the blackness of its heart.
نار خندان باغ را خندان کندصحبت مردانت از مردان کند
The laughing pomegranate makes the garden laugh; the companionship of men makes you one of the men.
گر تو سنگ صخره و مرمر شویچون به صاحب دل رسی گوهر شوی
Even if you are rock, crag, and marble, when you reach one possessed of heart you become a jewel.
مهر پاکان درمیان جان نشاندل مده الا به مهر دلخوشان
Set the love of the pure ones in the midst of your soul; give your heart only to the love of the glad-hearted.
کوی نومیدی مرو اومیدهاستسوی تاریکی مرو خورشیدهاست
Do not go to the quarter of despair, for there are hopes; do not go toward darkness, for there are suns.
دل ترا در کوی اهل دل کشدتن ترا در حبس آب و گل کشد
The heart draws you to the quarter of the people of heart; the body draws you to the prison of water and clay.
هین غذای دل بده از همدلیرو بجو اقبال را از مقبلی
Take heed: feed the heart through fellow-heartedness; go, seek good fortune from one who is fortunate.

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