1Cademy - دفتر سوم - بخش ۱۲۸ - حکایت آن دزد کی پرسیدند چه می‌کنی نیم‌شب در بن این دیوار گفت دهل می‌زنم / Book Three — Section 128 — The Story of the Thief Who Was Asked: What Are You Doing at Midnight at the Foot of This Wall? He Said: I Am Beating a Drum.

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مثنوی معنوی: دفتر سوم / Masnavi: Book Three

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دفتر سوم - بخش ۱۲۸ - حکایت آن دزد کی پرسیدند چه می‌کنی نیم‌شب در بن این دیوار گفت دهل می‌زنم / Book Three — Section 128 — The Story of the Thief Who Was Asked: 'What Are You Doing at Midnight at the Foot of This Wall?' He Said: 'I Am Beating a Drum.'

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این مثل بشنو که شب دزدی عنید	در بن دیوار حفره می برید
Hear this parable: one night a stubborn thief was boring a hole at the foot of a wall.
نیم بیداری که او رنجور بود	طقطق آهسته اش را می شنود
A half-awake man who was ailing was hearing the soft tap-tap of him.
رفت بر بام و فرو آویخت سر	گفت او را در چه کاری ای پدر
He went up on the roof and hung his head down and said to him: "In what work are you, O father?
خیر باشد نیمشب چه می کنی	تو کیی گفتا دهل زن ای سنی
All well, I hope — what are you doing at midnight? Who are you?" He said: "A drum-beater, O worthy man."
در چه کاری گفت می کوبم دهل	گفت کو بانگ دهل ای بوسبل
"In what work are you?" "I am striking a drum." He said: "Where is the sound of the drum, O Bū-Sabal?"
گفت فردا بشنوی این بانگ را	نعره یا حسرتا وا ویلتا
He said: "Tomorrow you will hear this sound — the cry of: 'Yā ḥasratā! Wā waylā!'"
آن دروغست و کژ و بر ساخته	سر آن کژ را تو هم نشناخته
That is a lie, crooked and fabricated — and you too have not grasped the secret of that crookedness.

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The Allegory of the Thief Beating a Drum in Rumi's Masnavi

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