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بخش ۱۰ - در ذمّ عوام و بازاریان و جهال گوید ذکر مساوی العوان للخواص نفع عام / Section 10 - He Speaks in Condemnation of the Common Folk, Merchants, and the Ignorant: Mentioning the Vices of the Commoners to the Elites is of General Benefit

متن و ترجمه / Text and Translation

عامه تا در جهان اسبابندهمه در کشتی اند و در خوابند
As long as the common people are in the world of material means,
They are all in a ship and fast asleep.
دل عامی چو دیدهٔ یار استنیم بیمار و نیم بیدار است
The heart of a commoner is like the eye of a beloved:
Half-sick and half-awake.
گنده و بی مزه است صحبت عامچون سگ پخته و چو مردم خام
Foul and tasteless is the company of the common folk,
Like cooked dog meat and raw, unrefined men.
زان گروهی که سوی درویشاننفرت آرد همی خرد زیشان
They are of that group from whom the intellect
Shrinks with aversion towards the dervishes.
از دل عامی و بخیل و حسودکینه آید ولیک ناید جود
From the heart of the commoner, the miser, and the envious,
Malice arises, but never generosity.
مگس و گزدمند مردم دوننیشی اندر دهان یکی در کون
The base people are like flies and scorpions:
One with a sting in its mouth, the other in its rear.
نه به دل بر نهد جهان پلیدبر سر دیو چتر مروارید
The vile world does not place
A pearl umbrella upon the head of a demon.
ز آفت نیش یک جهان گزدمچشم من پر مژه ست چون گندم
From the threat of the sting of a world of scorpions,
My eyes are full of lashes like wheat.
روی چون ابر از آن دژم دارندکه چو ابر آب در شکم دارند
They have faces gloomy like clouds
Because, like clouds, they have water in their bellies.
چون خره زان سزای قربانندکه خره وار مغ مسلمانند
Like donkeys, they are worthy of being sacrificed,
For they possess the brain of a donkey.
چون مگس روی بهر نان شوینددر چو گربه برای خوان جویند
Like flies, they wash their faces for the sake of bread;
Like cats, they seek the dining table.
مزد باشد برای خندیدنسبلت زن به مزدشان ریدن
Their reward for laughing
Is to have their mustaches defecated upon.
گاه شوخی پلید چون مگس اندگاه صحبت به غیض چون دنس اند
In times of playfulness, they are filthy like flies;
In conversation, they are like dirt in anger.
شوخ همچون مگس ولی بانانطعمهٔ عنکبوت بی سامان
Impudent like flies, yet for bread,
They are the prey of the destitute spider.
بهر پیوند جان مهمان راروزه فرموده سال و مه جان را
To sustain the life of a guest,
They order their own souls to fast all year round.
گر یکی میهمان بخوان رسدشکارد گویی به استخوان رسدش
If a single guest arrives at their table,
It is as if a knife has reached their bone.
گر دهند این گره به کوه آوانکند که بزرگشان به صدا
If this group calls out to a mountain,
The mountain would not echo back any greatness in reply.
از پی یک دو لقمه خرد به هیچکرده بسیار گونه راه بسیچ
For the sake of one or two tiny bites,
They have prepared many winding paths.
مردم عامه همچو زنبورستکه صلاح از وجودشان دورست
The common people are like wasps,
From whose existence rectitude is far.
هوس دخلشان چودوزخشاندفتر خرجشان چو مطبخشان
Their desire for gain is like their hell;
Their ledger of expenses is like their kitchen.
از پی یک دو لقمهٔ تر و شوربام و دیوار خز چو گربه و مور
For the sake of a couple of fresh or salty bites,
They crawl on roofs and walls like cats and ants.
ریششان سال و مه ببردن چیزاز شره مانده بر گذر گه تیز
Their beards, all year round, in pursuit of taking things,
Are left greedy at every passage.
حاصل سفله چیست جز غم و رنجقفص تیز چیست جز قولنج
What is the harvest of the base person but sorrow and pain?
What is a cage of sharp winds but colic?
یک دم ار تخته در بغل گیرندخانهٔ خویش در تبل گیرند
If they hold a board under their arm for a moment,
They beat the drum of their own house.
یک دم ار گوش سوی رود آرندبه دو گوز آسمان فرود آرند
If they listen to a lute for a single moment,
They bring down the sky with flatulence.
شکر ایشان بخواهم ارچه به روزبشکند زوبه ساعتی صد گوز
I would offer gratitude for them, even though
They break it a hundred times in an hour.
ذکرش بر هجاش شیر گواستریش مادر غرش بکن که رواست
Its mention is testified by milk;
Indeed, shaving their mother's beard is fitting.
آمد از چنگشان ز سبلت حیزدر تظلم میان درکهٔ تیز
From their clutches and their effeminate mustaches,
Comes oppression in the sharp lower depths.
چون نعامه به گاه نان خوردنلیک چون مرغ وقت اه کردن
Like an ostrich when it is time to eat bread,
But like a regular bird when it is time to work.
اه کنند از دریغ اه کردنخه کنند از جواب خه کردن
They sigh in regret of sighing,
And they laugh in response to laughing.
عامه مانند گردباد بودکه سبک خیز همچو باد بود
The common folk are like a whirlwind,
Rising swiftly like the wind.
به یکی باد خوش شود ناچیزصورت مرد دارد و تن حیز
With a single pleasant breeze, they vanish;
They have the face of a man but a weak body.
عرض عامه بسان نار بودگرچه بی مال و بی تبار بود
The honor of the commoner is like fire,
Even if they are without wealth and lineage.
کرده مجروح چون دد از بیدادکه نه دندان نه ناخنش ماناد
Wounded like a wild beast by injustice,
May neither its teeth nor its claws remain.

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