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دفتر دوم - بخش ۵۷ - حمله بردن سگ بر کور گدا / Book Two - Section 57 - The Dog Charging at the Blind Beggar

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یک سگی در کوی بر کور گداحمله می آورد چون شیر وغا
A dog in the lane was charging at a blind beggar like a lion in battle.
سگ کند آهنگ درویشان بخشمدر کشد مه خاک درویشان بچشم
A dog may turn angrily toward dervishes, while the moon rubs the dust of dervishes into its eyes.
کور عاجز شد ز بانگ و بیم سگاندر آمد کور در تعظیم سگ
The blind man, helpless from the dog's bark and fear of it, began to bow to the dog: 'O prince of the hunt, O lion of the chase, the hand is your hand; keep your hand off me.
کای امیر صید و ای شیر شکاردست دست تست دست از من بدار
For out of necessity that sage honored a donkey's tail and called it noble.'
کز ضرورت دم خر را آن حکیمکرد تعظیم و لقب دادش کریم
He too, from necessity, said: 'O lion, what prey can you get from one as lean as I?
گفت او هم از ضرورت کای اسداز چو من لاغر شکارت چه رسد
Your companions take onagers in the plain; you go about taking a blind man in an alley.
گور می گیرند یارانت به دشتکور می گیری تو در کوچه بگشت
Your companions seek onagers in the hunt; you seek a blind man in the alley by trickery.
گور می جویند یارانت بصیدکور می جویی تو در کوچه بکید
That learned dog hunted onagers, and this worthless dog aimed at a blind man.
آن سگ عالم شکار گور کردوین سگ بی مایه قصد کور کرد
When a dog learns, it is freed from error and hunts lawful game in the woods.
علم چون آموخت سگ رست از ضلالمی کند در بیشه ها صید حلال
When a dog becomes learned it becomes nimble in attack; when a dog becomes a gnostic it becomes one of the Companions of the Cave.
سگ چو عالم گشت شد چالاک زحفسگ چو عارف گشت شد اصحاب کهف
The dog became discerning and knew who the master of the hunt was; O God, what is that recognizing light?
سگ شناسا شد که میر صید کیستای خدا آن نور اشناسنده چیست
The blind man does not fail to recognize because he lacks eyes; rather it is because he is drunk with ignorance.
کور نشناسد نه از بی چشمی استبلک این زانست کز جهلست مست
Nothing is more eyeless, more blind, than the earth, yet by God's grace this earth became one that sees the enemy.
نیست خود بی چشم تر کور از زمیناین زمین از فضل حق شد خصم بین
It saw Moses' light and honored Moses; it swallowed Korah and recognized Korah.
نور موسی دید و موسی را نواختخسف قارون کرد و قارون را شناخت
It quaked to destroy every pretender; it understood from God, "O earth, swallow."
رجف کرد اندر هلاک هر دعیفهم کرد از حق که یاارض ابلعی
Earth, water, wind, and flaming fire are unaware with us, but aware with God.
خاک و آب و باد و نار با شرربی خبر با ما و با حق با خبر
We are the reverse: aware of what is other than God, unaware of God and of so many warners.
ما بعکس آن ز غیر حق خبیربی خبر از حق و از چندین نذیر
Therefore all of them shrank from it [the Trust]; because of mixture with animality, their assault became blunted.
لاجرم اشفقن منها جمله شانکند شد ز آمیز حیوان حمله شان
They said: "We are all quit of this life, which is alive with creatures and dead to God."
گفت بیزاریم جمله زین حیاتکو بود با خلق حی با حق موات
When one remains apart from creatures, he becomes orphaned; intimacy with God requires a sound heart.
چون بماند از خلق گردد او یتیمانس حق را قلب می باید سلیم
When, because of blindness, a thief steals some goods, that blind man makes a blind outcry.
چون ز کوری دزد دزدد کاله ایمی کند آن کور عمیا ناله ای
The thief will not say to him, "I am the one; I stole from you, for I am a very skillful thief."
تا نگوید دزد او را کان منمکز تو دزدیدم که دزد پر فنم
How can the blind man recognize his own thief when he does not have the light and brightness of the eye?
کی شناسد کور دزد خویش راچون ندارد نور چشم و آن ضیا
When he [the thief] speaks, then seize him firmly, so that he may tell the marks of your goods.
چون بگوید هم بگیر او را تو سختتا بگوید او علامتهای رخت
Thus the greater jihad is the squeezing [interrogation] of the thief, until he says what that base [venal] one has carried off.
پس جهاد اکبر آمد عصر دزدتا بگوید که چه برد آن زن بمزد
First he stole the collyrium of your eye; when you take it back, you regain your sight.
اولا دزدید کحل دیده اتچون ستانی باز یابی تبصرت
The goods of wisdom, which are the heart's lost property, are certainly found with the people of the heart.
کالهٔ حکمت که گم کردهٔ دلستپیش اهل دل یقین آن حاصلست
The heart-blind man, though he has soul and hearing and sight, does not know the devil-thief by his trace.
کوردل با جان و با سمع و بصرمی نداند دزد شیطان را ز اثر
Seek that from the people of the heart; do not seek it from the inanimate, for creatures before him are inanimate.
ز اهل دل جو از جماد آن را مجوکه جماد آمد خلایق پیش او
A seeker of counsel came to him, saying: 'O father, who has become like a child, tell a secret.'
مشورت جوینده آمد نزد اوکای اب کودک شده رازی بگو
He said: 'Go away from this circle, for this door is not open.
گفت رو زین حلقه کین در باز نیستباز گرد امروز روز راز نیست
Turn back; today is not a day of secrets.
گر مکان را ره بدی در لامکانهمچو شیخان بودمی من بر دکان
If place had a road into the Placeless, I too would be on a shop bench like the shaykhs.'

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