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دفتر ششم - بخش ۱۰۷ - دیدن ایشان در قصر این قلعهٔ ذات الصور نقش روی دختر شاه چین را و بیهوش شدن هر سه و در فتنه افتادن و تفحص کردن کی این صورت کیست / Book Six - Section 107 - Their Seeing the Portrait of the Daughter of the Emperor of China in the Castle of the Fortress of Portraits, All Three Falling Unconscious, Falling into Tribulation, and Investigating Whose Portrait It Is

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این سخن پایان ندارد آن گروهصورتی دیدند با حسن و شکوه
This discourse has no end; that group beheld a portrait of beauty and majesty.
خوب تر زان دیده بودند آن فریقلیک زین رفتند در بحر عمیق
That company had seen fairer than that, yet from this one they fell into a deep ocean.
زانک افیونشان درین کاسه رسیدکاسه ها محسوس و افیون ناپدید
For their opium arrived in this cup; the cups were sensible, but the opium was unseen.
کرد فعل خویش قلعهٔ هش رباهر سه را انداخت در چاه بلا
The mind-robbing castle did its work; it cast all three into the pit of tribulation.
تیر غمزه دوخت دل را بی کمانالامان و الامان ای بی امان
The arrow of the glance sewed the heart without a bow; mercy, mercy, O merciless one!
قرنها را صورت سنگین بسوختآتشی در دین و دلشان بر فروخت
The stone portrait burnt up centuries; it kindled a fire in their religion and their hearts.
چونک روحانی بود خود چون بودفتنه اش هر لحظه دیگرگون بود
Since it was spiritual, how could it be otherwise? Its temptation was different at every moment.
عشق صورت در دل شه زادگانچون خلش می کرد مانند سنان
The love of the portrait in the hearts of the princes pricked like a spear-point.
اشک می بارید هر یک هم چو میغدست می خایید و می گفت ای دریغ
Each shed tears like a cloud, gnawing his hand and saying, 'Alas!'
ما کنون دیدیم شه ز آغاز دیدچندمان سوگند داد آن بی ندید
We see it now, but the King saw it from the beginning. How many times did that peerless one swear us!
انبیا را حق بسیارست از آنکه خبر کردند از پایانمان
The prophets have a great right over us because they informed us of our end,
کاینچ می کاری نروید جز که خاروین طرف پری نیابی زو مطار
Saying, 'What you sow will yield nothing but thorns, and in this direction you will find no flight for your wings.'
تخم از من بر که تا ریعی دهدبا پر من پر که تیر آن سو جهد
Take seed from me that it may yield increase; fly with my wings that the arrow may fly thither.
تو ندانی واجبی آن و هستهم تو گویی آخر آن واجب بدست
You know not the necessity of it, and yet it is; you also say in the end, 'That necessity is at hand.'
او توست اما نه این تو آن توستکه در آخر واقف بیرون شوست
He is you, but not this 'you', rather that 'you' which in the end is aware of the exit.
توی آخر سوی توی اولتآمدست از بهر تنبیه و صلت
Your final 'you' has come to your first 'you' for the sake of warning and reward.
توی تو در دیگری آمد دفینمن غلام مرد خودبینی چنین
Your 'you' has become buried in another; I am the slave of a self-beholding man such as this.
آنچ در آیینه می بیند جوانپیر اندر خشت بیند بیش از آن
What a youth sees in the mirror, the elder sees even more in a raw brick.
ز امر شاه خویش بیرون آمدیمبا عنایات پدر یاغی شدیم
We transgressed the command of our King; despite the father's favors, we became rebellious.
سهل دانستیم قول شاه راوان عنایت های بی اشباه را
We took lightly the words of the King and those matchless favors.
نک در افتادیم در خندق همهکشته و خستهٔ بلا بی ملحمه
Lo, we have all fallen into the ditch, slain and wounded by calamity without a battle.
تکیه بر عقل خود و فرهنگ خویشبودمان تا این بلا آمد به پیش
Our reliance was upon our own intellect and our own learning, until this calamity befell us.
بی مرض دیدیم خویش و بی ز رقآنچنان که خویش را بیمار دق
We saw ourselves free of disease and fraud, even as a consumptive patient sees himself.
علت پنهان کنون شد آشکاربعد از آنک بند گشتیم و شکار
The hidden malady has now become manifest, after we have become bound and preyed upon.
سایهٔ رهبر بهست از ذکر حقیک قناعت به که صد لوت و طبق
The shadow of the guide is better than the remembrance of God; a single contentment is better than a hundred savory dishes and platters.
چشم بینا بهتر از سیصد عصاچشم بشناسد گهر را از حصا
A seeing eye is better than three hundred staffs; the eye distinguishes the pearl from the pebble.
در تفحص آمدند از اندهانصورت کی بود عجب این در جهان
In their grief they began to investigate: 'Whose portrait, indeed, could this be in the world?'
بعد بسیاری تفحص در مسیرکشف کرد آن راز را شیخی بصیر
After much searching on the way, a clear-sighted Sheikh discovered that secret,
نه از طریق گوش بل از وحی هوشرازها بد پیش او بی روی پوش
Not by way of the ear, but by the inspiration of the intellect; secrets were before him without a veil.
گفت نقش رشک پروینست اینصورت شه زادهٔ چینست این
He said, 'This is the portrait of the envy of the Pleiades; this is the likeness of the Princess of China.'
هم چو جان و چون جنین پنهانست اودر مکتم پرده و ایوانست او
Like the soul and the embryo, she is hidden; she is in the secret recess of the curtain and the palace.
سوی او نه مرد ره دارد نه زنشاه پنهان کرد او را از فتن
Neither man nor woman has a way to her; the King has hidden her from troubles.
غیرتی دارد ملک بر نام اوکه نپرد مرغ هم بر بام او
The King has such jealousy for her name that even a bird does not fly over her roof.
وای آن دل کش چنین سودا فتادهیچ کس را این چنین سودا مباد
Woe to the heart that has fallen into such a passion! May no one have such a passion!
این سزای آنک تخم جهل کاشتوآن نصیحت را کساد و سهل داشت
This is the retribution for him who sowed the seed of ignorance and held that counsel cheap and easy.
اعتمادی کرد بر تدبیر خویشکه برم من کار خود با عقل پیش
He relied upon his own planning, saying, 'I will carry my affair forward with my own intellect.'
نیم ذره زان عنایت به بودکه ز تدبیر خرد سیصد رصد
A half-atom of that grace is better than three hundred observatories of intellect's planning.
ترک مکر خویشتن گیر ای امیرپا بکش پیش عنایت خوش بمیر
Abandon your own cunning, O prince; draw back your foot before grace and die happily.
این به قدر حیلهٔ معدود نیستزین حیل تا تو نمیری سود نیست
This is not according to the measure of counted stratagems; of these stratagems, until you die, there is no benefit.

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