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دفتر ششم - بخش ۲ - سؤال سایل از مرغی کی بر سر ربض شهری نشسته باشد سر او فاضل‌ترست و عزیزتر و شریف‌تر و مکرم‌تر یا دم او و جواب دادن واعظ سایل را به قدر فهم او / Book Six - Section 2 - A questioner asking about a bird sitting on the wall of a city, whether its head is more excellent, dearer, nobler, and more honored, or its tail, and the preacher answering the questioner according to his understanding

متن و ترجمه / Text and Translation

واعظی را گفت روزی سایلیکای تو منبر را سنی تر قایلی
One day a questioner said to a preacher,
'O you who speak most excellently on the pulpit,
یک سؤالستم بگو ای ذو لباباندرین مجلس سؤالم را جواب
I have a question, tell me, O man of understanding,
Answer my question in this assembly:
بر سر بارو یکی مرغی نشستاز سر و از دم کدامینش بهست ؟
A bird sat upon the top of a city wall,
Which is better, its head or its tail?'
گفت اگر رویش به شهر و دم به دهروی او از دم او می دان که به
He said, 'If its face is towards the city and its tail towards the village,
Know that its face is better than its tail.
ور سوی شهرست دم ، رویش به دهخاک آن دم باش و از رویش بجه
And if its tail is towards the city and its face towards the village,
Be the dust of that tail and flee from its face.'
مرغ با پر می پرد تا آشیانپر مردم همت است ای مردمان
A bird flies to its nest with its wings,
The wings of people are their aspiration, O people!
عاشقی که آلوده شد در خیر و شرخیر و شر منگر تو در همت نگر
A lover who becomes stained in good and evil,
Do not look at good and evil, look at his aspiration.
باز اگر باشد سپید و بی نظیرچونک صیدش موش باشد شد حقیر
Even if a falcon is white and matchless,
When its prey is a mouse, it becomes despicable.
ور بود جغدی و میل او به شاهاو سر بازست منگر در کلاه
And if it is an owl, and its inclination is towards the king,
It is the head of falcons, do not look at the hat.
آدمی بر قد یک طشت خمیربر فزود از آسمان و از اثیر
Man, though in stature equal to a kneading-trough of dough,
Surpassed the heavens and the ether.
هیچ «کرمنا» شنید این آسمان ؟که شنید این آدمی پر غمان
Did this sky ever hear 'We have honored [the children of Adam]'?
Which this sorrowful man heard.
بر زمین و چرخ عرضه کرد کس ؟خوبی و عقل و عبارات و هوس ؟
Did anyone offer to the earth and the heavens?
Beauty and intellect and expressions and desire?
جلوه کردی هیچ تو بر آسمان ؟خوبی روی و اصابت در گمان ؟
Did you ever display yourself to the heavens?
The beauty of face and hitting the mark in conjecture?
پیش صورت های حمام ای ولدعرضه کردی هیچ سیم اندام خود ؟
Before the pictures of the bathhouse, O son,
Did you ever display your silver-like body?
بگذری زان نقش های هم چو حورجلوه آری با عجوز نیم کور
You pass by those figures, like houris,
To show yourself off to a half-blind old woman.
در عجوزه چیست که ایشان را نبود ؟که ترا زان نقش ها با خود ربود ؟
What is in the old woman that they did not have?
That snatched you away from those figures?
تو نگویی من بگویم در بیانعقل و حس و درک و تدبیرست و جان
You don't say it, I will state it in explanation:
It is intellect and sense and perception and management and soul.
در عجوزه جان آمیزش کنیستصورت گرمابه ها را روح نیست
In the old woman, there is a soul with which one can mingle,
The pictures of the bathhouses have no spirit.
صورت گرمابه گر جنبش کنددر زمان او از عجوزه بر کند
If the picture in the bathhouse were to move,
In an instant it would tear him away from the old woman.
جان چه باشد با خبر از خیر و شرشاد با احسان و گریان از ضرر
What is the soul? That which is aware of good and evil,
Joyful at kindness and weeping from harm.
چون سر و ماهیت جان مخبرستهر که او آگاه تر با جان ترست
Since the secret and essence of the soul is being aware,
Whoever is more aware is more soulful.
روح را تاثیر آگاهی بودهر که را این بیش ، اللهی بود
The spirit's effect is awareness,
Whoever has more of this, is more of God.
چون خبرها هست بیرون زین نهادباشد این جان ها در آن میدان جماد
Since there is awareness outside of this nature,
These souls are inanimate in that arena.
جان اول مظهر درگاه شدجان جان خود مظهر الله شد
The first soul became the manifestation of the Divine Court,
The soul of the soul itself became the manifestation of God.
آن ملایک جمله عقل و جان بدندجان نو آمد که جسم آن بدند
Those angels were entirely intellect and soul,
A new soul came, to which they were a body.
از سعادت چون بر آن جان بر زدندهم چو تن آن روح را خادم شدند
Because of felicity, when they attached themselves to that soul,
Like a body they became servants to that spirit.
آن بلیس از جان از آن سر برده بودیک نشد با جان که عضو مرده بود
That Iblis was carried away by the secret of the soul,
He did not become one with the soul, for he was a dead limb.
چون نبودش آن فدای آن نشددست بشکسته مطیع جان نشد
Since he was not of it, he did not sacrifice himself for it,
The broken hand does not obey the soul.
جان نشد ناقص گر آن عضوش شکستکان بدست اوست تواند کرد هست
The soul did not become deficient if that limb broke off,
For by His hand He can bring into existence.
سر دیگر هست کو گوش دگرطوطیی کو مستعد آن شکر
There is another head, where is the other ear?
A parrot that is ready for that sugar!
طوطیان خاص را قندیست ژرفطوطیان عام از آن خور بسته طرف
For the special parrots, there is profound sugar,
The common parrots have turned their eyes away from it.
کی چشد درویش صورت زان زکاتمعنیست آن نه فعولن فاعلات
How can the dervish of form taste of that alms?
It is meaning, not 'fa'ulun fa'ilat' [poetic meter].
از خر عیسی دریغش نیست قندلیک خر آمد به خلقت که پسند
From Jesus's donkey, sugar is not withheld,
But it came into creation as a donkey, what a choice!
قند خر را گر طرب انگیختیپیش خر قنطار شکر ریختی
If sugar aroused joy in the donkey,
You would pour a quintal of sugar before the donkey.
معنی نختم علی افواههماین شناس اینست ره رو را مهم
The meaning of 'We seal their mouths' (Khatamna 'ala afwahihim),
Recognize this: this is important for the traveler of the path.
تا ز راه خاتم پیغامبرانبوک بر خیزد ز لب ختم گران
So that from the path of the Seal of the Prophets,
Perhaps the heavy seal may be lifted from the lip.
ختم هایی که انبیا بگذاشتندآن به دین احمدی برداشتند
The seals that the prophets left,
They removed them by the Ahmadi religion.
قفل های ناگشاده مانده بوداز کف انا فتحنا برگشود
Unopened locks had remained,
He opened them from the palm of 'We have given a manifest victory' (Inna Fatahna).
او شفیع است این جهان و آن جهاناین جهان زی دین و آنجا زی جنان
He is the intercessor of this world and the next world,
This world towards religion and that world towards Paradise.
این جهان گوید که تو رهشان نماوآن جهان گوید که تو مهشان نما
This world says, 'Show them the way,'
And that world says, 'Show them the moon.'
پیشه اش اندر ظهور و در کموناهد قومی انهم لا یعلمون
His profession, in manifestation and in latency, is:
'Guide my people, for they do not know.'
باز گشته از دم او هر دو بابدر دو عالم دعوت او مستجاب
Both doors are opened by his breath,
In both worlds his invitation is answered.
بهر این خاتم شدست او که به جودمثل او نه بود و نه خواهند بود
For this reason he became the Seal, because in generosity,
There was no one like him, nor will there be.
چونک در صنعت برد استاد دستنه تو گویی ختم صنعت بر تو است
When a master carries his hand into art,
Do you not say, 'The seal of art is upon you'?
در گشاد ختم ها تو خاتمیدر جهان روح بخشان حاتمی
In the opening of seals, you are the Seal,
In the world of spirit-givers, you are a Hatim.
هست اشارات محمدالمرادکل گشاد اندر گشاد اندر گشاد
The indications of Muhammad-al-Murad are
A total opening within opening within opening.
صد هزاران آفرین بر جان اوبر قدوم و دور فرزندان او
A hundred thousand blessings be upon his soul,
Upon the arrival and the cycle of his descendants.
آن خلیفه زادگان مقبلشزاده اند از عنصر جان و دلش
Those felicitous sons of his Caliphs,
Are born from the element of his soul and heart.
گر ز بغداد و هری یا از ری اندبی مزاج آب و گل نسل وی اند
Whether they are from Baghdad and Herat or from Rayy,
Without the mixture of water and clay, they are his progeny.
شاخ گل هر جا که روید هم گلستخم مل هر جا که جوشد هم ملست
The branch of the rose, wherever it grows, is still a rose,
The vat of wine, wherever it ferments, is still wine.
گر ز مغرب بر زند خورشید سرعین خورشیدست نه چیز دگر
If the sun raises its head from the West,
It is the very essence of the sun, not anything else.
عیب چینان را ازین دم کور دارهم به ستاری خود ای کردگار
Keep the fault-finders blind to this breath,
Also by your own covering of faults, O Creator.
گفت حق چشم خفاش بدخصالبسته ام من ز آفتاب بی مثال
God said, 'The eye of the bat of evil disposition,
I have closed it to the matchless sun.'
از نظرهای خفاش کم و کاستانجم آن شمس نیز اندر خفاست
Because of the shortcomings of the bats' sight,
The stars of that Sun are also in concealment.

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