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دفتر سوم - بخش ۱۶ - رفتن خواجه و قومش به سوی ده / Book Three - Section 16 - The Master and His People Going Toward the Village

متن و ترجمه / Text and Translation

خواجه و بچگان جهازی ساختندبر ستوران جانب ده تاختند
The master and the children prepared their gear; they urged the beasts toward the village.
شادمانه سوی صحرا راندندسافروا کی تغنموا بر خواندند
Joyfully they rode toward the open country, reciting, "Travel, that you may gain."
کز سفرها ماه کیخسرو شودبی سفرها ماه کی خسرو شود؟
For by journeys a moon becomes Kay Khusraw; without journeys, how could a moon become a Khusraw?
از سفر بیدق شود فرزین رادوز سفر یابید یوسف صد مراد
Through travel a pawn becomes a wise vizier, and through travel Joseph found a hundred desires fulfilled.
روز روی از آفتابی سوختندشب ز اختر راه می آموختند
By day their faces were burned by the sun; by night they learned the road from the stars.
خوب گشته پیش ایشان راه زشتاز نشاط ده شده ره چون بهشت
The ugly road became beautiful to them; from delight in the village, the road became like paradise.
تلخ از شیرین لبان خوش می شودخار از گلزار دلکش می شود
Bitter things become pleasant through sweet-lipped ones; a thorn becomes charming through a rose garden.
حنظل از معشوق خرما می شودخانه از همخانه صحرا می شود
Colocynth becomes dates through the beloved; a house becomes open country through a housemate.
ای بسا از نازنینان خارکشبر امید گل عذار ماه وش
How many delicate ones have become thorn-carriers in hope of a rose-cheeked, moonlike beloved.
ای بسا حمال گشته پشت ریشاز برای دلبر مه روی خویش
How many have become porters, their backs wounded, for the sake of their moon-faced beloved.
کرده آهنگر جمال خود سیاهتا که شب آید ببوسد روی ماه
A blacksmith blackens his beauty so that, when night comes, he may kiss the moon's face.
خواجه تا شب بر دکانی چار میخزانک سروی در دلش کرده ست بیخ
The master is nailed to a shop until night because a cypress has taken root in his heart.
تاجری دریا و خشکی می رودآن به مهر خانه شینی می دود
A merchant goes over sea and land; he runs out of love for one who sits at home.
هر که را با مرده سودایی بودبر امید زنده سیمایی بود
Whoever has traffic with the dead has it in hope of a living-faced one.
آن دروگر روی آورده به چوببر امید خدمت مه روی خوب
That reaper has turned toward wood in hope of serving a beautiful moon-faced one.
بر امید زنده ای کن اجتهادکاو نگردد بعد روزی دو جماد
Strive in hope of a living one who will not become inanimate after a day or two.
مونسی مگزین خسی را از خسیعاریت باشد درو آن مونسی
Do not choose a base thing as companion out of baseness; the companionship in it is borrowed.
انس تو با مادر و بابا کجاستگر به جز حق مونسانت را وفاست
Where is your intimacy with mother and father, if companions other than God are faithful to you?
انس تو با دایه و لالا چه شدگر کسی شاید بغیر حق عضد
What became of your intimacy with nurse and tutor, if anyone besides God can serve as support?
انس تو با شیر و با پستان نماندنفرت تو از دبیرستان نماند
Your intimacy with milk and breast did not remain; your aversion to school did not remain.
آن شعاعی بود بر دیوارشانجانب خورشید وا رفت آن نشان
That was a ray upon their wall; that sign went back toward the sun.
بر هر آن چیزی که افتد آن شعاعتو بر آن هم عاشق آیی ای شجاع
Whatever that ray falls upon, you too fall in love with it, brave one.
عشق تو بر هر چه آن موجود بودآن ز وصف حق زر اندود بود
Your love for anything that existed was because it was gilded with God's attribute.
چون زری با اصل رفت و مس بماندطبع سیر آمد طلاق او براند
When the gold went back to its source and copper remained, nature became sated and drove it away in divorce.
از زر اندود صفاتش پا بکشاز جهالت قلب را کم گوی خوش
Draw your foot back from the gold-gilding of its qualities; out of ignorance, do not keep calling the counterfeit pleasant.
کان خوشی در قلبها عاریت استزیر زینت مایهٔ بی زینت است
For that pleasantness in counterfeits is borrowed; beneath the ornament is an unadorned substance.
زر ز روی قلب در کان می رودسوی آن کان رو تو هم کآن می رود
The gold on the face of the counterfeit goes to the mine; go toward that mine, for it too goes to the mine.
نور از دیوار تا خور می رودتو بدان خور رو که در خور می رود
Light goes from the wall to the sun; go toward that sun, for it goes to what is worthy.
زین سپس بستان تو آب از آسمانچون ندیدی تو وفا در ناودان
From now on, take your water from the sky, since you have seen no faithfulness in the drainpipe.
معدن دنبه نباشد دام گرگکی شناسد معدن آن گرگ سترگ
The wolf's trap is not the source of fat-tail; how would that huge wolf know the source?
زر گمان بردند بسته در گرهمی شتابیدند مغروران به ده
They thought gold was tied up in the bundle; the deluded ones were hurrying to the village.
همچنین خندان و رقصان می شدندسوی آن دولاب چرخی می زدند
Laughing and dancing like this, they went on, circling toward that waterwheel.
چون همی دیدند مرغی می پریدجانب ده صبر جامه می درید
Whenever they saw a bird flying toward the village, patience tore its garment.
هر که می آمد ز ده از سوی اوبوسه می دادند خوش بر روی او
Whoever came from the village, from that direction, they happily kissed his face.
گر تو روی یار ما را دیده ایپس تو جان را جان و ما را دیده ای
If you have seen our friend's face, then you have seen the soul of the soul and have seen us.

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