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بخش ۲۱ - فی‌الامثال والمواعظ، الفقر سواد الوجه والدُّنیا دارالزوال و تغیّرالاحوال و الانتقال / Section 21 - On Proverbs and Admonitions: Poverty is the Blackness of the Face, and the World is the House of Decline, the Change of Conditions, and Passing Away

متن و ترجمه / Text and Translation

با سیه باش چونت نگزیردکه سیه هیچ رنگ نپذیرد
Be with the black when you have no choice,
For black accepts no other color.
با سیه روی خوشدلی بهم استطرب انگیز سرخ روی کم است
With the black-faced, joy is joined;
Few are the red-faced who bring gladness.
تبش آتشی که دل جویستطالب سوخته سیه رویست
The warmth of the fire that the heart seeks
Desires the burnt, black-faced one.
زنگی زشت در بلا جوییخوش دلی یافت در سیه رویی
The ugly Zanj, in seeking affliction,
Found joy in having a black face.
طرب او نه از نکویی اوستخوش دلی او ز مشک بویی اوست
His joy is not from his physical beauty;
His happiness is from his musk-scent.
هست روشن تر از ضیاء هلالکشف حال هلال و کفش بلال
Brighter than the light of the crescent moon
Is the discovery of the state of Hilal and the shoe of Bilal.
راز دل گر همی نخواهی فاشبا سیه رویی دو عالم باش
If you do not wish the secret of the heart to be exposed,
Be black-faced in both worlds.
زآنکه آنرا که آرزو طلب استپرده در روز و پرده دار شب است
For he who is a seeker of desires
Is a curtain-ripper by day and a curtain-keeper by night.
زین هوسهای هرزه دست بدارآرزو زهردان و معده چو مار
Cease these futile passions;
Regard desire as a vessel of poison and the stomach as a snake.
افعی آرزوت اگر بگزدبا تو این کارها بسی بپزد
If the viper of your desire bites you,
It will mature many deeds in you.
که بدین راه در بدی نیکیستآب حیوان درون تاریکیست
For on this path, there is good within evil;
The Water of Life is in the darkness.
دل ز رنگ سیه چه غم داردزانکه شب روز در شکم دارد
Why should the heart grieve over the black color,
Since the night holds the day in its belly?
هرچه جز حق هرآنچ باطین استجز طریق حقیقت دین است
Whatever is other than God, whatever is vain,
Is outside the path of the truth of religion.
زانکه مردان درین کهن خانهنو گرفتند بی دم و دانه
For the true men in this ancient house
Acquired new life without bait or seed.
چون به باغ خدای بگرازندهرچه تلقین بود بیندازند
When they stride into the garden of God,
They cast away whatever was mere instruction.
بی خودی منتهای راز همه ستمرجع روح پاک با کلمه ست
Selflessness is the ultimate secret of all;
The return of the pure spirit is to the Word.
بگذر از جان و عقل یکباریتا به فرمان حق رسی باری
Pass beyond life and intellect at once
So that you may reach the command of God.
ای که فرش زمانه ننوشتیوی که از چار و نه بنگذشتی
O you who have not rolled up the carpet of time,
And you who have not passed beyond the four and nine.
می نبینی از آنکه شب کوریروز چون عقل ابلهان عوری
You do not see because you are night-blind;
By day you are naked like the intellect of fools.
می بگویم سخن ترا نه به غمزلیکن از راه حق به نکته و رمز
I speak words to you not in mockery,
But from the path of Truth in points and symbols.
تا ز باطل بنگذری حق نیستکه از این نیمه حق مطلق نیست
Until you pass beyond falsehood, there is no Truth,
For from this side, there is no absolute Truth.
جز پی زاد راه عالم حیزور لاخیر دان و زر لاشیئ
Except as provision for the path to the Living World,
Deem power as 'no good' and gold as 'nothing'.
هست لاخیر زور زردارانهمچو لا شیئ عقل می خواران
The power of the wealthy is 'no good',
Just like the intellect of wine-drinkers is 'nothing'.

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