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دفتر سوم - بخش ۳ - بقیهٔ قصهٔ متعرضان پیل‌بچگان / Book Three - Section 3 - The Rest of the Tale of the Assailants of the Elephant-Calves

متن و ترجمه / Text and Translation

هر دهان را پیل بویی می کندگرد معدهٔ هر بشر بر می تند
Every mouth the elephant smells; around the stomach of every person it circles, to see where it may find the roasted flesh of its young, so that it may show its vengeance and its power.
تا کجا یابد کباب پور خویشتا نماید انتقام و زور خویش
You eat the flesh of God's servants; you backbite them, and you will suffer punishment.
گوشت های بندگان حق خوریغیبت ایشان کنی، کیفر بری
Beware, for the Creator is the smeller of your mouths; who can carry off his soul except one who is truthful?
هان که بویای دهانتان خالق استکی برد جان غیر آن کاو صادق است؟
Woe to that wretched one whose smell-takers in the grave are Munkar or Nakir.
وای آن افسوسیی کش بوی گیرباشد اندر گور منکر یا نکیر
There is no possibility of stealing the mouth away from those great ones, nor of sweetening the mouth with mouthwash.
نه دهان دزدیدن امکان زان مهاننه دهان خوش کردن از دارو دهان
There is no water or oil for covering the face; there is no path of trickery for intellect and wit.
آب و روغن نیست مر روپوش راراه حیلت نیست عقل و هوش را
How many blows their maces strike on the head of every babbler and boundary-crosser.
چند کوبد زخم های گرزشانبر سر هر ژاژخا و مرزشان
Look at the effect of Azrael's mace, even if you do not see wood and iron in bodily forms.
گرز عزرائیل را بنگر اثرگر نبینی چوب و آهن در صور
Yet in bodily form it appears from time to time; only the sick person is aware of that.
هم به صورت می نماید گه گهیزان همان رنجور باشد آگهی
That sick person says, "O my friends, what is this sword above my head?"
گوید آن رنجور ای یاران منچیست این شمشیر بر ساران من
We do not see it; perhaps this is imagination.
ما نمی بینیم باشد این خیالچه خیالست این که این هست ارتحال
What imagination is this, when this is departure?
چه خیالست این که این چرخ نگوناز نهیب این خیالی شد کنون
What imagination is this, by whose terror this inverted sky has now become so?
گرزها و تیغ ها محسوس شدپیش بیمار و سرش منکوس شد
Maces and swords became perceptible before the sick man, and his head was lowered.
او همی بیند که آن از بهر اوستچشم دشمن بسته زان و چشم دوست
He sees that it is for him; the eye of the enemy is closed to it, and the eye of the friend as well.
حرص دنیا رفت و چشمش تیز شدچشم او روشن گه خون ریز شد
Worldly greed went away and his eye grew sharp; his eye became bright at the blood-shedding moment.
مرغ بی هنگام شد آن چشم اواز نتیجهٔ کبر او و خشم او
That eye of his became an ill-timed bird, from the result of his pride and anger.
سر بریدن واجب آید مرغ راکاو به غیر وقت جنباند درا
It becomes necessary to cut off the bird's head when it moves its bell at the wrong time.
هر زمان نزعی ست جزو جانت رابنگر اندر نزع جان ایمانت را
Every moment there is a death-agony for a part of your soul; look into the death-agony of the soul of your faith.
عمر تو مانند همیان زر ستروز و شب مانند دینار اشمر ست
Your life is like a purse of gold; day and night are like the dinar-counter.
می شمارد می دهد زر بی وقوفتا که خالی گردد و آید خسوف
It counts and gives away gold unknowingly, until it becomes empty and an eclipse arrives.
گر ز که بستانی و ننهی بجایاندر آید کوه زان دادن ز پای
If you take from a mountain and do not put back in its place, the mountain will be brought down by that giving.
پس بنه بر جای هر دم را عوضتا ز «واسجد واقترب» یابی غرض
So put compensation in place for each breath, so that through "prostrate and draw near" you may reach the goal.
در تمامی کارها چندین مکوشجز به کاری که بود در دین مکوش
Do not strive so much in every kind of work; strive only in work that belongs to religion.
عاقبت تو رفت خواهی ناتمامکارهاات ابتر و نان تو خام
In the end you will depart unfinished, your works cut short and your bread unbaked.
وان عمارت کردن گور و لحدنه به سنگست و به چوب و نه لبد
And building that grave and tomb is not with stone, nor with wood, nor with felt.
بلک خود را در صفا گوری کنیدر منی او کنی دفن منی
Rather, make yourself a grave in purity; bury your I-ness in His I-ness.
خاک او گردی و مدفون غمشتا دمت یابد مددها از دمش
Become His dust and buried in grief for Him, so that your breath may receive helps from His breath.
گورخانه و قبه ها و کنگرهنبود از اصحاب معنی آن سره
Tomb-houses and domes and battlements are not the pure coin among the people of meaning.
بنگر اکنون زنده اطلس پوش راهیچ اطلس دست گیرد هوش را؟
Look now at the living one dressed in satin: does satin ever take intelligence by the hand?
در عذاب منکرست آن جان اوگزدم غم در دل غمدان او
His soul is in the torment of Munkar; the scorpion of grief is in his heart, and his heart is a grief-house.
از برون بر ظاهرش نقش و نگاروز درون ز اندیشه ها او زار زار
Outside, his appearance is pattern and ornament; inside, from thoughts, he is wretched and lamenting.
و آن یکی بینی در آن دلق کهنچون نبات اندیشه و شکر سخن
And you see another in that old patched cloak, like sugar-cane in thought and sugar in speech.

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