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دفتر سوم - بخش ۱۸۳ - منع کردن دوستان او را از رجوع کردن به بخارا وتهدید کردن و لاابالی گفتن او / Book Three - Section 183 - His Friends Forbidding Him from Returning to Bukhara, Threatening Him, and His Saying He Does Not Care

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گفت او را ناصحی ای بی خبرعاقبت اندیش اگر داری هنر
A counselor said to him: "O heedless one,
Think of consequences, if you have any skill.
درنگر پس را به عقل و پیش راهمچو پروانه مسوزان خویش را
Look back and ahead with reason —
Do not burn yourself up like a moth.
چون بخارا می روی دیوانه ایلایق زنجیر و زندان خانه ای
Going to Bukhara? You are mad,
Fit for chains and a prison-house.
او ز تو آهن همی خاید ز خشماو همی جوید ترا با بیست چشم
He gnaws iron with rage against you;
He seeks you with twenty eyes.
می کند او تیز از بهر تو کارداو سگ قحطست و تو انبان آرد
He sharpens his knife for you —
He is a famine-dog and you are a sack of flour.
چون رهیدی و خدایت راه دادسوی زندان می روی چونت فتاد
Since you escaped and God showed you the way,
Why do you go toward the prison? What has come over you?
بر تو گر ده گون موکل آمدیعقل بایستی کز ایشان کم زدی
If ten kinds of wardens had set upon you,
Reason would demand that you reduce their number.
چون موکل نیست بر تو هیچ کساز چه بسته گشت بر تو پیش و پس
Since no warden is set over you at all,
Why is your way before and behind locked fast?"
عشق پنهان کرده بود او را اسیرآن موکل را نمی دید آن نذیر
Love had made him a prisoner in secret —
That warner could not see this warden.
هر موکل را موکل مختفیستورنه او در بند سگ طبعی ز چیست
Every warden has a hidden warden set over him;
Otherwise, why is he himself in bondage to a dog-natured one?
خشم شاه عشق بر جانش نشستبر عوانی و سیه روییش بست
The wrath of the King of Love settled upon his soul,
Binding him to villainy and dark-facedness.
می زند او را که هین او رابزنزان عوانان نهان افغان من
He strikes him, saying: "Hey! Strike him!" —
My lamentation is hidden from those bailiffs.
هرکه بینی در زیانی می رودگرچه تنها ، با عوانی می رود
Whoever you see walking into loss,
Though he walks alone, he walks with a bailiff.
گر ازو واقف بدی افغان زدیپیش آن سلطان سلطانان شدی
Had you been aware of him, you would have cried out
And gone before the Sultan of Sultans.
ریختی بر سر به پیش شاه خاکتا امان دیدی ز دیو سهمناک
You would have poured dust upon your head before the King,
To find refuge from the terrible demon.
میر دیدی خویش را ای کم ز مورزان ندیدی آن موکل را تو کور
You saw yourself as a prince, O lesser-than-an-ant —
And so you did not see that warden, O blind one.
غره گشتی زین دروغین پر و بالپر و بالی کو کشد سوی وبال
You were deceived by these false wings —
Wings that drag one toward ruin.
پر سبک دارد ره بالا کندچون گل آلو شد گرانیها کند
A light feather finds the path upward;
When it becomes mud-caked, it makes itself heavy.

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