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دفتر ششم - بخش ۶۳ - مثل / Book Six - Section 63 - A Parable

متن و ترجمه / Text and Translation

عارفی پرسید از آن پیر کشیشکه توی خواجه مسن تر یا که ریش
A mystic asked that old priest,
'Are you, sir, older or your beard?'
گفت نه من پیش ازو زاییده امبی ز ریشی بس جهان را دیده ام
He said, 'No, I was born before it;
I have seen much of the world without a beard.'
گفت ریشت شد سپید از حال گشتخوی زشت تو نگردیده ست وشت
He said, 'Your beard has turned white and changed its state,
Yet your ugly disposition has not changed its nature.
او پس از تو زاد و از تو بگذریدتو چنین خشکی ز سودای ثرید
It was born after you and has passed you by;
You are so dry and inflexible from the passion for soaked bread (worldly greed).
تو بر آن رنگی که اول زاده اییک قدم زان پیش تر ننهاده ای
You remain of the exact same color as when you were first born;
You have not taken a single step forward from that.
هم چنان دوغی ترش در معدنیخود نگردی زو مخلص روغنی
Like sour buttermilk in a skin-bag,
You have not transformed to yield pure butter from within.
هم خمیری خمر طینه دریگرچه عمری در تنور آذری
You are still the same dough of clay, though you were kneaded,
Even though you have spent a lifetime in the oven of fire (trials).
چون حشیشی پا به گل بر پشته ایگرچه از باد هوس سرگشته ای
Like dry grass, your feet are stuck in the mud on a hill,
Even though you are bewildered by the wind of desire.
هم چو قوم موسی اندر حر تیهمانده ای بر جای چل سال ای سفیه
Like the people of Moses in the heat of the wandering (the desert of Tih),
You have remained in the same place for forty years, O fool!
می روی هر روز تا شب هرولهخویش می بینی در اول مرحله
You jog every day until night,
Yet you see yourself still at the first stage.
نگذری زین بعد سیصد ساله توتا که داری عشق آن گوساله تو
You will not pass beyond this even after three hundred years,
As long as you maintain your love for that calf.
تا خیال عجل از جانشان نرفتبد بریشان تیه چون گرداب زفت
Until the phantom of the calf left their souls,
The desert was to them like a fierce whirlpool.
غیر این عجلی کزو یابیده ایبی نهایت لطف و نعمت دیده ای
Other than this calf from which you gained nothing,
You have seen infinite grace and bounty.
گاو طبعی زان نکوییهای زفتاز دلت در عشق این گوساله رفت
You have a bovine nature, hence those massive bounties
Left your heart out of love for this calf.
باری اکنون تو ز هر جزوت بپرسصد زبان دارند این اجزای خرس
Anyway, now ask every part of yourself;
These parts of the bear have a hundred tongues.
ذکر نعمتهای رزاق جهانکه نهان شد آن در اوراق زمان
The remembrance of the bounties of the Provider of the world,
Which were hidden in the leaves of time.
روز و شب افسانه جویانی تو چستجزو جزو تو فسانه گوی تست
Day and night you eagerly seek tales,
Yet every part of you is telling you tales.
جزو جزوت تا برستست از عدمچند شادی دیده اند و چند غم
Since every part of you escaped from non-existence,
How much joy have they seen, and how much sorrow?
زانک بی لذت نروید هیچ جزوبلک لاغر گردد از هی پیچ جزو
Because without pleasure no part grows;
Indeed, it becomes lean from every twist of pain.
جزو ماند و آن خوشی از یاد رفتبل نرفت آن خفیه شد از پنج و هفت
The part remained, and that joy was forgotten;
Rather, it did not leave, it became hidden from the five (senses) and the seven (planets/intellects).
هم چو تابستان که از وی پنبه زادماند پنبه رفت تابستان ز یاد
Like summer from which cotton was born;
The cotton remained, but the summer faded from memory.
یا مثال یخ که زاید از شتاشد شتا پنهان و آن یخ پیش ما
Or like ice that is born of winter;
Winter became hidden, while the ice remains before us.
هست آن یخ زان صعوبت یادگاریادگار صیف در دی این ثمار
That ice is a memorial of that severity;
These fruits in winter are memorials of the summer.
هم چنان هر جزو جزوت ای فتیدر تنت افسانه گوی نعمتی
In the same way, every part of you, O youth!
Is a tale-teller of a bounty in your body.
چون زنی که بیست فرزندش بودهر یکی حاکی حال خوش بود
Like a woman who has twenty children;
Every single one is a narrator of a state of bliss.
حمل نبود بی ز مستی و ز لاغبی بهاری کی شود زاینده باغ
Pregnancy does not occur without intoxication and playfulness;
Without spring, how can an orchard become fruitful?
حاملان و بچگانشان بر کنارشد دلیل عشق بازی با بهار
The pregnant ones and their babies by their side
Became the proof of making love to the spring.
هر درختی در رضاع کودکانهم چو مریم حامل از شاهی نهان
Every tree, in nursing its children (fruits),
Is like Mary, pregnant by a hidden King.
گرچه در آب آتشی پوشیده شدصد هزاران کف برو جوشیده شد
Although a fire was hidden in the water,
A hundred thousand foams boiled upon it.
گرچه آتش سخت پنهان می تندکف به ده انگشت اشارت می کند
Though the fire weaves (burns) very secretly,
The foam points to it with ten fingers.
هم چنین اجزای مستان وصالحامل از تمثالهای حال و قال
In the same way, the parts of those intoxicated with Union
Are pregnant with the images of spiritual state and speech.
در جمال حال وا مانده دهانچشم غایب گشته از نقش جهان
At the beauty of the state, their mouths are left agape;
Their eyes have become absent to the forms of the world.
آن موالید از زه این چار نیستلاجرم منظور این ابصار نیست
Those offspring are not from the womb of these four (elements);
Consequently, they are not the objects of these physical eyes.
آن موالید از تجلی زاده اندلاجرم مستور پردهٔ ساده اند
Those offspring are born of Divine manifestation;
Thus, they are hidden behind a blank veil.
زاده گفتیم و حقیقت زاد نیستوین عبارت جز پی ارشاد نیست
We said 'born', but in truth there is no birth;
And this expression is merely for the sake of guidance.
هین خمش کن تا بگوید شاه قلبلبلی مفروش با این جنس گل
Come, be silent so that the King of 'Say!' may speak;
Do not boast of being a nightingale with this kind of rose.
این گل گویاست پر جوش و خروشبلبلا ترک زبان کن باش گوش
This Rose is speaking, full of fervor and clamor;
O nightingale, abandon your tongue and become all ear!
هر دو گون تمثال پاکیزه مثالشاهد عدل اند بر سر وصال
Both kinds of representation (forms), pure in example,
Are just witnesses to the secret of Union.
هر دو گون حسن لطیف مرتضیشاهد احبال و حشر ما مضی
Both kinds of the subtle beauty of the Chosen One
Are witnesses to the impregnation and the resurrection of what is past.
هم چو یخ کاندر تموز مستجدهر دم افسانهٔ زمستان می کند
Like ice which, renewed in midsummer,
Relates the tale of winter at every moment.
ذکر آن اریاح سرد و زمهریراندر آن ازمان و ایام عسیر
Reminding of those cold winds and intense frost
During those times and difficult days.
هم چو آن میوه که در وقت شتامی کند افسانهٔ لطف خدا
Like that fruit which in the season of winter
Tells the tale of God's grace.
قصهٔ دور تبسمهای شمسوآن عروسان چمن را لمس و طمس
The story of the era of the sun's smiles,
And the touching and effacing of the brides of the meadow.
حال رفت و ماند جزوت یادگاریا ازو واپرس یا خود یاد آر
The state has gone, and your part remained as a memorial;
Either ask it (your part) or remember it yourself.
چون فرو گیرد غمت گر چستییزان دم نومید کن وا جستیی
When sorrow grips you, if you are nimble,
You would search back from that moment of despair.
گفتییش ای غصهٔ منکر به حالراتبهٔ انعامها را زان کمال
You would say to it: 'O sorrow that denies the spiritual state!
Consider the daily ration of bounties from that Perfection!'
گر بهر دم نت بهار و خرمیستهم چو چاش گل تنت انبار چیست
If you do not have spring and gladness at every breath,
Then what is your body, like a stack of grain, a storehouse of?
چاش گل تن فکر تو هم چون گلابمنکر گل شد گلاب اینت عجاب
The stack of clay is the body; your thought is like rosewater.
The rosewater denied the rose! This is a wonder.
از کپی خویان کفران که دریغبر نبی خویان نثار مهر و میغ
It is a pity that the ingratitude of those with monkey-like traits
Scatters clouds of sorrow over the love of those with prophet-like traits.
آن لجاج کفر قانون کپیستوآن سپاس و شکر منهاج نبیست
That stubbornness in disbelief is the law of the monkey;
While that gratitude and thanks is the path of the Prophet.
با کپی خویان تهتکها چه کردبا نبی رویان تنسکها چه کرد
What has shamelessness done to the monkey-natured ones?
And what has devotion done for the prophet-faced ones?
در عمارتها سگانند و عقوردر خرابیهاست گنج عز و نور
In populated places, there are biting dogs;
In ruins lies the treasure of might and light.
گر نبودی این بزوغ اندر خسوفگم نکردی راه چندین فیلسوف
If this emergence were not in eclipse,
So many philosophers would not have lost their way.
زیرکان و عاقلان از گمرهیدیده بر خرطوم داغ ابلهی
The clever and the intelligent, out of error,
Have their sight branded on their snouts with the mark of foolishness.

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