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بخش ۹ - اندر شرح خوب و زشت گوید / Section 9 - He Speaks on the Description of the Beautiful and the Ugly

متن و ترجمه / Text and Translation

خوب را از برای دست فراخجاودان شاخ شاخ ریزد شاخ
The beautiful, for the sake of an open hand,
Eternally spreads branch after branch.
زشت را از برای حسرت چیزدست و دل تنگ چون گذرگه تیز
The ugly, out of covetousness for things,
Is tight of hand and heart like a sharp pass.
گلخنی را کشیده اندر پوستتو گهش جان لقب کنی گه دوست
You have pulled a furnace-stoker into your skin,
Sometimes you title him 'soul', sometimes 'friend'.
آن چنان کرد شهوتت محجوبکه ندانی تو خوک را از خوب
Lust has so thoroughly veiled you,
That you do not know a pig from the beautiful.
کرد بادام دید سیم تنتدل بریان چو پسته در دهنت
The almond eye made your vision of the silver-bodied one,
Your heart roasted like a pistachio in your mouth.
هرکه در دست این چنین دل ماندتا ابد پای او فرو گل ماند
Whoever leaves their heart in such hands,
His foot will remain stuck in the mud for eternity.
آن بت ماه روی سیم اندامچون زرت کرد خوش رو و خوش نام
That idol with a moon-like face and silver body,
Made you cheerful and well-reputed like gold.
چون برافشاند زلف مشکین رابچه دارد چنان دل و دین را
When she scatters her musky tresses,
She treats heart and faith like a child.
مار طاوس روی و موی آراستعافیت آدم است و دل حواست
The snake adorned with the face and hair of a peacock,
Well-being is Adam, and the heart is Eve.
مار و طاوس کامدند بهمهم به حوا بدند و هم بادم
The snake and the peacock that came together,
Were harmful to both Eve and Adam.
و آن غلام شگرف زیبا رخبت زنجیر زلف دیبا رخ
And that wonderful slave-boy with a beautiful face,
The idol with chained tresses and brocade-like cheeks,
بشکند مشک جعد او پشتتدست عشقش کند چو انگشتت
The musk of his curls will break your back,
The hand of his love will make you thin like a finger.
تا تو آن روی چون گلش یابیخار پشتت کند ز بی خوابی
Until you attain that rose-like face of his,
He makes your back like a porcupine's from sleeplessness.
گرچه پی برگرفت از سر دستگردنت دست او چو پای شکست
Even if he removed the nerve from the forearm,
His hand broke your neck like a foot.
گرچه باشد ز روی و موی نکونان بی نان خورش خورد بدخو
Even if he is beautiful in face and hair,
The ill-natured one eats bread without a side dish.
ببرد گوش و بینی اندر کویسیهی چشمشان سپیدی روی
He takes away the ear and nose in the street,
The blackness of their eyes, the whiteness of the face.
خوش ترش از درون او کینهشد گل از عکس رویش آیینه
More sour than his inner malice,
The mirror became mud from the reflection of his face.
زان دل همچو سنگش اندر تندل تو خون گرسنه چون آهن
From his stone-like heart inside the body,
Your heart is hungry for blood like iron.
چون شود چشم تو چو ابر ازرقلب خود او کند به خنده چو برق
When your eye becomes like a dark blue weeping cloud,
He makes his own lip smile like lightning.

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