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دفتر ششم - بخش ۴۴ - رجوع به قصهٔ رنجور / Book Six - Section 44 - Return to the Story of the Sick Man

متن و ترجمه / Text and Translation

باز گرد و قصهٔ رنجور گوبا طبیب آگه ستارخو
Return and tell the story of the sick man,
with the aware, secret-concealing physician.
نبض او بگرفت و واقف شد ز حالکه امید صحت او بد محال
He took his pulse and became aware of his condition,
that the hope for his recovery was impossible.
گفت هر چت دل بخواهد آن بکنتا رود از جسمت این رنج کهن
He said, 'Do whatever your heart desires,
so that this ancient pain may leave your body.
هرچه خواهد خاطر تو وا مگیرتا نگردد صبر و پرهیزت زحیر
Do not withhold whatever your mind desires,
so that your patience and abstinence do not become a torment.
صبر و پرهیز این مرض را دان زیانهرچه خواهد دل در آرش در میان
Know that patience and abstinence are harmful for this disease;
whatever the heart desires, bring it forth.'
این چنین رنجور را گفت ای عموحق تعالی اعملوا ما شئتم
To such a sick person, he said, 'O uncle,
God Almighty has said: "Do whatever you will".'
گفت رو هین خیر بادت جان عممن تماشای لب جو می روم
He said, 'Go, may it be well with you, dear uncle,
I am going to stroll by the edge of the stream.'
بر مراد دل همی گشت او بر آبتا که صحت را بیابد فتح باب
He wandered by the water following his heart's desire,
so that he might find the door of health opened.
بر لب جو صوفیی بنشسته بوددست و رو می شست و پاکی می فزود
A Sufi was sitting by the edge of the stream,
washing his hands and face and increasing his purity.
او قفااش دید چون تخییلییکرد او را آرزوی سیلیی
He saw the back of his neck and, like someone having a fantasy,
he felt the desire to give it a slap.
بر قفای صوفی حمزه پرستراست می کرد از برای صفع دست
Upon the back of the neck of the Hamza-worshipping Sufi,
he readied his hand for a slap.
کارزو را گر نرانم تا رودآن طبیبم گفت کان علت شود
'If I do not drive away this desire until it goes,
my doctor told me it will become an illness.
سیلیش اندر برم در معرکهزانک لا تلقوا بایدی تهلکه
I will deliver him a slap in the arena,
because "Do not cast yourselves into destruction".
تهلکه ست این صبر و پرهیز ای فلانخوش بکوبش تن مزن چون دیگران
This patience and abstinence is destruction, O so-and-so!
Strike him well, do not hold back like the others.'
چون زدش سیلی برآمد یک طراقگفت صوفی هی هی ای قواد عاق
When he slapped him, a loud smack resounded.
The Sufi said, 'Hey, hey, you disobedient pimp!'
خواست صوفی تا دو سه مشتش زندسبلت و ریشش یکایک بر کند
The Sufi wanted to punch him two or three times,
and pluck out his mustache and beard one by one.
خلق رنجور دق و بیچاره اندوز خداع دیو سیلی باره اند
(He thought:) 'The people are afflicted with consumption and are helpless;
by the deception of the devil, they are slap-happy.
جمله در ایذای بی جرمان حریصدر قفای همدگر جویان نقیص
All are greedy to torment the innocent,
seeking flaws behind each other's backs.
ای زننده بی گناهان را قفادر قفای خود نمی بینی جزا
O you who slap the innocent on the neck,
do you not see the retribution coming up behind you?
ای هوا را طب خود پنداشتهبر ضعیفان صفع را بگماشته
O you who have fancied caprice as your medicine,
and have unleashed your slaps upon the weak!
بر تو خندید آنک گفتت این دواستاوست که آدم را به گندم رهنماست
He who told you this is medicine laughed at you;
he is the one who guided Adam to the wheat.
که خورید این دانه، ای دو مستعینبهر دارو تا تکونا خالدین
"Eat this grain, O you two seekers of help,
as a remedy so that you may be immortal."
اوش لغزانید و او را زد قفاآن قفا وا گشت و گشت این را جزا
He caused him to slip and slapped his neck;
that slap returned and became retribution for this one.
اوش لغزانید سخت اندر زلقلیک پشت و دستگیرش بود حق
He caused him to slip severely in the slippery place,
but his support and helper was the Truth (God).
کوه بود آدم اگر پر مار شدکان تریاقست و بی اضرار شد
Adam was a mountain; even if it became full of snakes,
he was a mine of antidote and became unharmed.
تو که تریاقی نداری ذره ایاز خلاص خود چرایی غره ای
You, who do not have a single particle of antidote,
why are you arrogant about your salvation?
آن توکل کو خلیلانه تراوآن کرامت چون کلیمت از کجا
Where is that reliance on God like the Friend (Abraham) in you?
And where is that miracle like the Interlocutor (Moses) from?
تا نبرد تیغت اسمعیل راتا کنی شه راه قعر نیل را
So that your sword does not cut Ishmael,
so that you make a royal road through the bottom of the Nile.
گر سعیدی از مناره اوفتیدبادش اندر جامه افتاد و رهید
If a fortunate man fell from a minaret,
the wind caught his garments and he was saved.
چون یقینت نیست آن بخت ای حسنتو چرا بر باد دادی خویشتن
Since you are not certain of having that luck, O Hasan,
why did you cast yourself to the wind?
زین مناره صد هزاران هم چو عاددر فتادند و سر و سر باد داد
From this minaret hundreds of thousands like 'Ad
fell, and gave their heads and secrets to the wind.
سرنگون افتادگان را زین منارمی نگر تو صد هزار اندر هزار
Look at the hundreds of thousands upon thousands
who have fallen headlong from this minaret.
تو رسن بازی نمیدانی یقینشکر پاها گوی و می رو بر زمین
You certainly do not know tightrope walking;
give thanks for your feet and walk on the ground!
پر مساز از کاغذ و از که مپرکه در آن سودا بسی رفتست سر
Do not make wings of paper and do not fly from the straw,
for in that delusion many a head has gone.'
گرچه آن صوفی پر آتش شد ز خشملیک او بر عاقبت انداخت چشم
Although that Sufi became full of fire with anger,
yet he cast his eye upon the end.
اول صف بر کسی ماندم به کامکو نگیرد دانه بیند بند دام
'In the first rank I resemble one who has his desire,
who does not take the grain but sees the knot of the snare.
حبذا دو چشم پایان بین رادکه نگه دارند تن را از فساد
Excellent are the two noble, end-seeing eyes,
which preserve the body from corruption!'
آن ز پایان دید احمد بود کودید دوزخ را همین جا مو به مو
It was from seeing the end that Ahmad (Muhammad) was such
that he saw Hell right here, hair by hair.
دید عرش و کرسی و جنات راتا درید او پردهٔ غفلات را
He saw the Throne and the Footstool and the Gardens (of Paradise),
until he tore the veil of negligences.
گر همی خواهی سلامت از ضررچشم ز اول بند و پایان را نگر
If you desire safety from harm,
close your eye to the beginning and look at the end.
تا عدمها ار ببینی جمله هستهستها را بنگری محسوس پست
So that if you see the non-existences as all existent,
you will view the existences as low, sensible things.
این ببین باری که هر کش عقل هستروز و شب در جست و جوی نیستست
See this at once: everyone who has intellect
is searching day and night for that which is not.
در گدایی طالب جودی که نیستبر دکانها طالب سودی که نیست
In beggary, seeking a generosity that is not;
in the shops, seeking a profit that is not.
در مزارع طالب دخلی که نیستدر مغارس طالب نخلی که نیست
In the sown fields, seeking an income that is not;
in the plantations, seeking a palm tree that is not.
در مدارس طالب علمی که نیستدر صوامع طالب حلمی که نیست
In the schools, seeking a knowledge that is not;
in the cloisters, seeking a forbearance that is not.
هستها را سوی پس افکنده اندنیستها را طالبند و بنده اند
They have cast the existences behind them,
and they are seekers and slaves of the non-existences.
زانک کان و مخزن صنع خدانیست غیر نیستی در انجلا
Because the mine and treasury of God's creation
is nothing but non-existence in its manifestation.
پیش ازین رمزی بگفتستیم ازیناین و آن را تو یکی بین دو مبین
Before this we told a mystery regarding this;
see this and that as one, do not see them as two.
گفته شد که هر صناعت گر که رستدر صناعت جایگاه نیست جست
It was said that every craftsman who attained salvation
sought a place of non-existence for his craft.
جست بنا موضعی ناساختهگشته ویران سقفها انداخته
The builder sought an unbuilt place,
which had become ruined, with its roofs thrown down.
جست سقا کوزه ای کش آب نیستوان دروگر خانه ای کش باب نیست
The water-carrier sought a jug in which there is no water,
and the carpenter a house in which there is no door.
وقت صید اندر عدم بد حمله شاناز عدم آنگه گریزان جمله شان
At the time of hunting, their attack was towards non-existence;
then they are all fleeing from non-existence.
چون امیدت لاست زو پرهیز چیستبا انیس طمع خود استیز چیست
Since your hope is in 'no' (non-existence), what is your avoidance of it?
What is this strife with the companion of your desire?
چون انیس طمع تو آن نیستیستاز فنا و نیست این پرهیز چیست
Since the companion of your desire is that non-existence,
what is this avoidance of passing away and non-existence?
گر انیس لا نه ای ای جان به سردر کمین لا چرایی منتظر
If you are not the intimate of 'no', O dear soul,
why are you waiting in ambush for 'no'?
زانک داری جمله دل برکنده ایشست دل در بحر لا افکنده ای
Because you have completely detached your heart from what you have;
you have cast the net of the heart into the sea of 'no'.
پس گریز از چیست زین بحر مرادکه بشستت صد هزاران صید داد
Then what is the flight from this sea of desire,
which gave into your net hundreds of thousands of prey?
از چه نام برگ را کردی تو مرگجادوی بین که نمودت مرگ برگ
Why have you named 'provision' as 'death'?
See the sorcery that showed you death as provision!
هر دو چشمت بست سحر صنعتشتا که جان را در چه آمد رغبتش
The magic of His art closed both your eyes,
so that your soul felt an inclination towards the well.
در خیال او ز مکر کردگارجمله صحرا فوق چه زهرست و مار
In his imagination, from the stratagem of the Creator,
the whole plain above the well is poison and snakes.
لاجرم چه را پناهی ساختستتا که مرگ او را به چاه انداختست
Inevitably he has made the well a refuge,
until death cast him into the pit.
اینچ گفتم از غلطهات ای عزیزهم برین بشنو دم عطار نیز
What I have said of your errors, O dear friend,
concerning this, listen also to the breath of 'Attar.

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