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دفتر دوم - بخش ۱۸ - تتمهٔ قصهٔ مفلس / Book Two - Section 18 - The Conclusion of the Tale of the Bankrupt Man

متن و ترجمه / Text and Translation

گفت قاضی مفلسی را وا نماگفت اینک اهل زندانت گوا
The judge said: "Show me his insolvency."
He said: "Here are the inmates of your prison as witnesses."
گفت ایشان متهم باشند چونمی گریزند از تو می گریند خون
He said: "They are suspect, since
they flee from you and weep blood,
وز تو می خواهند هم تا وارهندزین غرض باطل گواهی می دهند
and from you they also wish to be freed —
out of this corrupt motive they bear witness."
جمله اهل محکمه گفتند ماهم بر ادبار و بر افلاسش گوا
All the people of the court said: "We too
are witnesses to his misfortune and insolvency."
هر که را پرسید قاضی حال اوگفت مولا دست ازین مفلس بشو
Whoever the judge asked about his condition
said: "My lord, wash your hands of this insolvent."
گفت قاضی که ش بگردانید فاشگرد شهر این مفلس است و بس قلاش
The judge said: "Lead him around openly
throughout the city — he is insolvent and utterly a rogue.
کو به کو او را منادی ها زنیدطبل افلاسش عیان هر جا زنید
Street by street, proclaim him;
beat the drum of his insolvency plainly everywhere.
هیچ کس نسیه بنفروشد بدوقرض ندهد هیچ کس او را تسو
Let no one sell to him on credit;
let no one lend him even a farthing.
هر که دعوی آردش اینجا به فنبیش زندانش نخواهم کرد من
Whoever brings a claim against him here by craft —
I will no longer imprison him.
پیش من افلاس او ثابت شده ستنقد و کالا نیستش چیزی به دست
Before me his insolvency is established:
he has nothing in hand, neither cash nor goods."
آدمی در حبس دنیا ز آن بودتا بود که افلاس او ثابت شود
Man is kept in the prison of the world for this —
that his insolvency may be established.
مفلسی دیو را یزدان ماهم منادی کرد در قرآن ما
Our God also proclaimed the insolvency of the Devil
as a herald in our Qur'an:
کاو دغا و مفلس است و بد سخنهیچ با او شرکت و سودا مکن
"He is a cheat, insolvent, and evil of speech —
make no partnership or trade with him at all.
ور کنی او را بهانه آوریمفلس است او، صرفه از وی کی بری ؟
And if you do, you will make excuses —
he is insolvent; when will you profit from him?"
حاضر آوردند چون فتنه فروختاشتر کردی که هیزم می فروخت
They brought him forward, for he had stirred up mischief,
having made use of the camel of one who sold firewood.
کرد بیچاره بسی فریاد کردهم موکل را به دانگی شاد کرد
The poor wretch cried out greatly
and also gladdened the court officer with a dāng.
اشترش بردند از هنگام چاشتتا شب و افغان او سودی نداشت
They led his camel away from mid-morning
until evening, and his lamentation availed him nothing.
بر شتر بنشست آن قحط گرانصاحب اشتر پی اشتر دوان
That heavy blight sat upon the camel,
the camel's owner running behind it.
سو به سو و کو به کو می تاختندتا همه شهرش عیان بشناختند
Side to side and street by street they rode
until all the city plainly recognized him.
پیش هر حمام و هر بازار گهکرده مردم جمله در شکلش نگه
Before every bathhouse and every marketplace
all the people fixed their gaze upon his appearance.
ده منادی گر بلند آوازیانترک و کرد و رومیان و تازیان
Ten loud-voiced heralds —
Turks, Kurds, Romans, and Arabs:
مفلس است این و ندارد هیچ چیزقرض تا ندهد کس او را یک پشیز
"This one is insolvent and has nothing whatsoever —
let no one lend him so much as a pashiz.
ظاهر و باطن ندارد حبه ایمفلسی قلبی دغایی دبه ای
In outward and inward he has not a ḥabba —
he is a counterfeit insolvent, a cheat, a fraud.
هان و هان با او حریفی کم کنیدچونک گاو آرد گره محکم کنید
Beware, beware — make no fellowship with him;
when he brings his cow, tie the knot firm.
ور به حکم آرید این پژمرده رامن نخواهم کرد زندان مرده را
And if you bring this withered one before the court —
I will not imprison a dead man.
خوش دمست او و گلویش بس فراخبا شعار نو دثار شاخ شاخ
He is pleasant of speech and his throat is very wide,
with a new badge but a tattered cloak.
گر بپوشد بهر مکر آن جامه راعاریه ست آن تا فریبد عامه را
If he wears that garment for the sake of deceit —
it is borrowed, to delude the common folk."
حرف حکمت بر زبان نا حکیمحله های عاریت دان ای سلیم
Words of wisdom on the tongue of the unwise —
know them as borrowed robes, O Salīm.
گرچه دزدی حله ای پوشیده استدست تو چون گیرد آن ببریده دست
Though a thief has put on a fine robe,
how can that severed hand take yours?
چون شبانه از شتر آمد به زیرکرد گفتش منزلم دورست و دیر
When at nightfall he dismounted from the camel,
the Kurd said to him: "My home is far and it is late.
بر نشستی اشترم را از پگاهجو رها کردم کم از اخراج کاه
You mounted my camel since morning;
I left barley aside, receiving less than the cost of hay."
گفت تا اکنون چه می کردیم پس ؟!هوش تو کو ؟ نیست اندر خانه کس ؟
He said: "What have we been doing until now?
Where is your sense? There is no one home in you.
طبل افلاسم به چرخ سابعهرفت و تو نشنیده ای بد واقعه
The drum of my insolvency has gone to the seventh sphere,
and you have not heard — wretched event!
گوش تو پر بوده است از طمع خامپس طمع کر می کند کور ای غلام
Your ear has been filled with raw greed,
for greed makes one deaf and blind, O servant."
تا کلوخ و سنگ بشنید این بیانمفلس ست و مفلس ست این قلتبان
Until clod and stone heard this proclamation:
"He is insolvent! He is insolvent! This scoundrel!"
تا به شب گفتند و در صاحب شتربر نزد کاو از طمع پر بود پر
Until evening they proclaimed it, and the camel's owner
knocked on no door — for he was brimful of greed.
هست بر سمع و بصر مهر خدادر حجب بس صورت ست و بس صدا
God has set a seal upon hearing and sight;
in the veils there are many forms and many sounds.
آنچ او خواهد رساند آن به چشماز جمال و از کمال و از کرشم
What He wills He brings to the eye —
of beauty, of perfection, and of grace;
و آنچ او خواهد رساند آن به گوشاز سماع و از بشارت وز خروش
and what He wills He brings to the ear —
of samā', of glad tidings, and of outcry.
کون پر چاره ست، هیچت چاره نیتا که نگشاید خدایت روزنی
The universe is full of remedies, yet you have no remedy,
until God opens a window for you.
گرچه تو هستی کنون غافل از آنوقت حاجت حق کند آن را عیان
Though you are now heedless of this,
in time of need God makes it manifest.
گفت پیغامبر که یزدان مجیداز پی هر درد درمان آفرید
The Prophet said: "The Glorious God
has created a remedy for every pain —
لیک زان درمان نبینی رنگ و بوبهر درد خویش بی فرمان او
but of that remedy you will see no color or scent
for your own pain without His command."
چشم را ای چاره جو در لامکانهین بنه چون چشم کشته سوی جان
Set your eye, O seeker of remedy, upon lā-makān —
quick, direct it like the eye of the slain toward the Soul.
این جهان از بی جهت پیدا شده ستکه ز بی جایی جهان را جا شده ست
This world appeared from the directionless,
for from placelessness the world found its place.
باز گرد از هست سوی نیستیطالب ربی و ربانیستی
Turn back from being toward non-being —
seek your Lord and lordliness.
جای دخل ست این عدم از وی مرمجای خرج ست این وجود بیش و کم
This non-existence is the place of income — flee not from it;
this existence, more or less, is the place of expenditure.
کارگاه صنع حق چون نیستی ستجز معطل در جهان هست کیست ؟
Since the workshop of God's craftsmanship is non-existence,
who in the world of being is anything but idle?
یاد ده ما را سخن های دقیقکه ترا رحم آورد آن ای رفیق
Remind us of subtle words
which draw forth Your mercy, O Friend.
هم دعا از تو اجابت هم ز توایمنی از تو مهابت هم ز تو
Both prayer is from You and response is from You;
safety is from You and awe is from You.
گر خطا گفتیم اصلاحش تو کنمصلحی تو ای تو سلطان سخن
If we have spoken in error, correct it —
You are the reformer, O Sultan of speech.
کیمیا داری که تبدیلش کنیگرچه جوی خون بود نیلش کنی
You have the alchemy to transform it:
though it be a stream of blood, You make it the Nile.
این چنین مینا گر ی ها کار تستاین چنین اکسیر ها اسرار تست
Such enamel-work is Your doing;
such elixirs are Your secrets.
آب را و خاک را بر هم زدیز آب و گل نقش تن آدم زدی
You mixed water and earth together —
from water and clay You fashioned the form of Adam's body;
نسبتش دادی و جفت و خال و عمبا هزار اندیشه و شادی و غم
gave him kinship — spouse and maternal uncle and paternal uncle —
with a thousand thoughts, joys, and griefs.
باز بعضی را رهایی داده ایزین غم و شادی جدایی داده ای
Yet some You have freed,
given separation from this grief and joy;
برده ای از خویش و پیوند و سرشتکرده ای در چشم او هر خوب زشت
drawn them away from self, attachment, and nature,
made every beautiful thing ugly in their eyes.
هر چه محسوس است او رد می کندوانچ ناپیدا ست مسند می کند
Whatever is sensible he rejects,
and what is imperceptible he makes his throne.
عشق او پیدا و معشوقش نهانیار بیرون فتنهٔ او در جهان
His love is manifest while his beloved is hidden;
his companion is outward, yet the turmoil of his love is in the world.
این رها کن عشق های صورتینیست بر صورت نه بر روی ستی
Leave aside these formal loves —
there is no faithfulness in form, nor in face.
آنچ معشوق ست صورت نیست آنخواه عشق این جهان خواه آن جهان
What is beloved is not form —
whether love of this world or of that world.
آنچ بر صورت تو عاشق گشته ایچون برون شد جان چرایش هشته ای ؟
What you fell in love with because of form —
when the soul has departed, why have you abandoned it?
صورت ش بر جاست این سیری ز چیست ؟عاشقا وا جو که معشوق تو کیست ؟
The form remains in place — from what is this satiety?
O lover, seek back to know who your beloved is.
آنچ محسوس ست اگر معشوقه استعاشق ستی هر که او را حس هست
If what is sensible were the beloved,
whoever has sensation would be a lover.
چون وفا آن عشق افزون می کندکی وفا صورت دگرگون می کند ؟
Since faithfulness increases that love —
when does faithfulness change the form?
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