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دفتر ششم - بخش ۱۷ - حکایت آن عاشق کی شب بیامد بر امید وعدهٔ معشوق بدان وثاقی کی اشارت کرده بود و بعضی از شب منتظر ماند و خوابش بربود معشوق آمد بهر انجاز وعده او را خفته یافت جیبش پر جوز کرد و او را خفته گذاشت و بازگشت / Book Six - Section 17 - The Story of that lover who came by night in hope of the beloved's promise to that room which she had indicated, and waited for a part of the night, and sleep carried him away; the beloved came to fulfill the promise, found him sleeping, filled his pocket

متن و ترجمه / Text and Translation

عاشقی بودست در ایام پیشپاسبان عهد اندر عهد خویش
There was a lover in days of yore,
A guardian of the covenant in his own time.
سالها در بند وصل ماه خودشاهمات و مات شاهنشاه خود
For years captive to the union of his moon,
Checkmated and mated by his sovereign.
عاقبت جوینده یابنده بودکه فرج از صبر زاینده بود
In the end, the seeker is the finder,
For deliverance is born of patience.
گفت روزی یار او که امشب بیاکه بپختم از پی تو لوبیا
One day his beloved said to him, 'Come tonight,
For I have cooked beans for you.
در فلان حجره نشین تا نیم شبتا بیایم نیم شب من بی طلب
Sit in such-and-such a room until midnight,
So that I may come at midnight without being summoned.'
مرد قربان کرد و نانها بخش کردچون پدید آمد مهش از زیر گرد
The man made sacrifices and distributed bread,
When his moon appeared from under the dust.
شب در آن حجره نشست آن گرمداربر امید وعدهٔ آن یار غار
At night, that ardent one sat in that room,
In hope of the promise of that intimate friend.
بعد نصف اللیل آمد یار اوصادق الوعدانه آن دلدار او
After midnight, his beloved arrived,
That sweetheart of his, true to her promise.
عاشق خود را فتاده خفته دیداندکی از آستین او درید
She saw her lover fallen asleep;
She tore a little of his sleeve.
گردکانی چندش اندر جیب کردکه تو طفلی گیر این می باز نرد
She put a few walnuts in his pocket,
Meaning, 'You are a child; take these and play the game.'
چون سحر از خواب عاشق بر جهیدآستین و گردکانها را بدید
When the lover leapt up from sleep at dawn,
He saw the sleeve and the walnuts.
گفت شاه ما همه صدق و وفاستآنچ بر ما می رسد آن هم ز ماست
He said, 'Our sovereign is all truth and faithfulness;
Whatever befalls us, that too is from ourselves.
ای دل بی خواب ما زین ایمنیمچون حرس بر بام چوبک می زنیم
O our sleepless heart, we are secure from this,
Like the night-watchman, we beat the wooden clapper on the roof.
گردکان ما درین مطحن شکستهر چه گوییم از غم خود اندکست
Our walnut was broken in this mill;
Whatever we say of our sorrow is too little.
عاذلا چند این صلای ماجراپند کم ده بعد ازین دیوانه را
O reprover, how long this proclamation of the event?
Give less advice to this madman hereafter.
من نخواهم عشوهٔ هجران شنودآزمودم چند خواهم آزمود
I will not listen to the deceit of separation;
I have tested it; how much more shall I test it?
هرچه غیر شورش و دیوانگیستاندرین ره دوری و بیگانگیست
Whatever is other than tumult and madness,
In this path is distance and estrangement.
هین بنه بر پایم آن زنجیر راکه دریدم سلسلهٔ تدبیر را
Come, put that chain upon my foot,
For I have torn the chain of prudence.
غیر آن جعد نگار مقبلمگر دو صد زنجیر آری بگسلم
Other than the curl of my auspicious beauty,
If you bring two hundred chains, I will break them.'
عشق و ناموس ای برادر راست نیستبر در ناموس ای عاشق مایست
Love and reputation, O brother, are not compatible;
Do not stand at the door of reputation, O lover.
وقت آن آمد که من عریان شومنقش بگذارم سراسر جان شوم
The time has come for me to become naked,
To leave form behind and become entirely spirit.
ای عدو شرم و اندیشه بیاکه دریدم پردهٔ شرم و حیا
O enemy of shame and thought, come,
For I have torn the veil of shame and modesty.
ای ببسته خواب جان از جادویسخت دل یارا که در عالم توی
O you who have bound the sleep of the soul by magic,
Hard-hearted friend, that you are in the world!
هین گلوی صبر می گیر و فشارتا خنک گردد دل عشق ای سوار
Come, grip the throat of patience and squeeze,
So that the heart of love may grow cool, O rider.
تا نسوزم کی خنک گردد دلشای دل ما خاندان و منزلش
Until I burn, how will her heart grow cool?
O our heart, her family and her abode!
خانهٔ خود را همی سوزی بسوزکیست آن کس کت بگوید لایجوز
You are burning your own house; burn it!
Who is the one to say to you, 'It is not allowed'?
خوش بسوز این خانه را ای شیر مستخانهٔ عاشق چنین اولیترست
Burn this house merrily, O drunken lion!
The house of the lover is better thus.
بعد ازین این سوز را قبله کنمزانکه شمعم  بسوزش روشنم
After this, I will make this burning my Qibla,
Because I am a candle, I am brightened by its burning.
خواب را بگذار امشب ای پدریک شبی بر کوی بی خوابان گذر
Abandon sleep tonight, O father;
Pass one night through the street of the sleepless.
بنگر اینها را که مجنون گشته اندهم چو پروانه بوصلت کشته اند
Look at these who have gone mad,
They have been killed like moths by union.
بنگر این کشتی خلقان غرق عشقاژدهایی گشت گویی حلق عشق
Look at this ship of creatures drowned in love,
The throat of love became like a dragon.
اژدهایی ناپدید دلرباعقل هم چون کوه را او کهربا
An invisible, heart-ravishing dragon,
It is the amber for the intellect which is like a mountain.
عقل هر عطار کآگه شد ازوطبله ها را ریخت اندر آب جو
The intellect of every perfumer who became aware of it,
Poured his trays into the water of the stream.
رو کزین جو برنیایی تا ابدلم یکن حقا له کفوا احد
Go, for you will not emerge from this stream until eternity;
'Verily, there is none comparable unto Him.'
ای مزور چشم بگشای و ببینچند گویی می ندانم آن و این
O forger, open your eyes and see;
How long will you say, 'I do not know this and that'?
از وبای زرق و محرومی بر آدر جهان حی و قیومی در آ
Come out of the plague of hypocrisy and deprivation,
Enter into the world of the Living and the Self-Subsisting.
تا نمی بینم همی بینم شودوین ندانمهات می دانم بود
So that 'I do not see' becomes 'I see,'
And these 'I do not knows' become 'I know.'
بگذر از مستی و مستی بخش باشزین تلون نقل کن در استواش
Pass beyond drunkenness and be a bestower of drunkenness;
Move from this fickleness into His equanimity.
چند نازی تو بدین مستی بس استبر سر هر کوی چندان مست هست
How long will you boast of this drunkenness? It is enough;
At the head of every street, there are so many drunkards.
گر دو عالم پر شود سرمست یارجمله یک باشند و آن یک نیست خوار
If the two worlds are filled with those drunk with the Beloved,
All are one, and that one is not contemptible.
این ز بسیاری نیابد خوارییخوار که بود تن پرستی ناریی
This one does not find contemptibility from multiplicity;
Who is contemptible? A fire-worshipping body-worshipper.
گر جهان پر شد ز نور آفتابکی بود خوار آن تف خوش التهاب
If the world is filled with the light of the sun,
When will that sweet blazing heat be contemptible?
لیک با این جمله بالاتر خرامچونک ارض الله واسع بود و رام
But with all this, step higher;
Since 'God's earth is spacious' and submissive.
گرچه این مستی چو باز اشهبستبرتر از وی در زمین قدس هست
Although this drunkenness is like a white falcon,
There is something higher than it in the land of holiness.
رو سرافیلی شو اندر امتیازدر دمندهٔ روح و مست و مست ساز
Go, become an Israfil in distinction,
Blowing the spirit, and drunk, and making drunk.
مست را چون دل مزاح اندیشه شداین ندانم و آن ندانم پیشه شد
Since thought became a joke to the heart for the drunkard,
'I do not know this' and 'I do not know that' became the profession.
این ندانم وان ندانم بهر چیستتا بگویی آنک می دانیم کیست
'I do not know this' and 'I do not know that' is for what?
So that you may say who it is that we do know.
نفی بهر ثبت باشد در سخننفی بگذار و ز ثبت آغاز کن
Negation is for the sake of affirmation in speech;
Leave negation and start from affirmation.
نیست این و نیست آن هین واگذارآنک آن هستست آن را پیش آر
Leave alone 'it is not this' and 'it is not that';
Bring forward That which Is.
نفی بگذار و همان هستی پرستاین در آموز ای پدر زان ترک مست
Leave negation and worship that very Being;
Learn this lesson, O father, from that drunken Turk.

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