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بخش ۲۸ - فی ذکر رفقاء السّوء / Section 28 - On the Mention of Bad Companions

متن و ترجمه / Text and Translation

دوستی با مقامر و قلاشیا مکن یا چو کردی آن را باش
Friendship with a gambler and a scoundrel:
Either do not make it, or if you do, stand by it.
دوستی کز پی پیاله کنندندهی پوست پوست کاله کنند
A friendship made for the sake of a cup (of wine):
If you do not give your skin, they will strip you of your goods.
دوست خواهی که تا بماند دوستآن طلب زو که طبع و خاطر اوست
If you wish a friend to remain a friend:
Seek from him only what is in his nature and disposition.
بد کسی دان که دوست کم داردزو بتر چون گرفت بگذارد
Deem him a bad person who has few friends,
And worse than him is the one who, having found them, abandons them.
دوست گرچه دو صد دو یار بوددشمن ارچه یکی هزار بود
Though two hundred friends are but two companions,
An enemy, though only one, is like a thousand.
مر ترا خصم و دشمن دانابهتر از دوستان همه کانا
To you, a wise adversary and enemy
Is better than all ignorant friends.
از تقی دین طلب ز رعنا لافاز صدف در طلب ز آهو ناف
Seek religion from the pious, and boasting from the vain;
Seek pearls from the oyster, and musk from the deer.
آستین ار ز هیچ خواهی پراز صدف مشک جو وز آهو در
If you wish to fill your sleeve with nothing:
Seek musk from the oyster and pearls from the deer.
آنچه از حس چشم و بینی و گوشزین ببین زان ببوی و زان بنیوش
That which belongs to the senses of sight, smell, and hearing:
See with the first, smell with the second, and listen with the third.
ناید از گوشها جهان بینینچشد چشم و نشنود بینی
World-viewing does not come from the ears;
The eye does not taste, and the nose does not hear.
از حواس ار بجویی این همه سازآن ازین این از آن نیابی باز
If you seek all this harmony from the senses,
You will not find one performing the function of another.
که پدیدست در جهان باریکار هر مرد و مرد هر کاری
For indeed, it is manifest in the world:
The work of every man, and the man for every work.
گر نخواهی دل از ندامت پربه بدی از رفیق نیک مبر
If you do not wish your heart to be filled with regret,
Do not break away from a good companion over an evil turn.
گرچه صد بار باز گردد یارسوی او باز گرد چون طومار
Even if your friend turns away a hundred times,
Return to him like a scroll.
زین بدان رخ همی بگردانیباش تا قدر این بدان دانی
If you turn your face from this one to that one,
Wait until you know the true value of each.
دوستان گنج خانهٔ رازندرنج بردار و گنج پردازند
Friends are the treasury of secrets;
They bear the pain and bestow the treasure.
با نفایه و سره به خفت و به خیزنه درآمیز چست و نه بگریز
With the worthless and the pure in your social dealings:
Neither mingle too closely, nor flee completely.
نه طلب زین ستوده دان نه هربکه چنین آمد از حکیم عرب
Deem neither the seeking of them praised, nor fleeing them,
For thus it came from the Sage of the Arabs (Ali).
صفت دوست از ره تحقیقاز علی بشنو ار نه ای زندیق
Hear the true description of a friend
From Ali, unless you are a heretic.
دوست نادان بود نباید سوختباید این حکمت از علی آموخت
If a friend is ignorant, one must not burn (destroy oneself);
This wisdom must be learned from Ali.
خلق دشمن شود چو بگریزیبد قرین گردی ار درآمیزی
People become enemies if you flee from them,
And you become a bad companion if you mingle too much.
چون ترا دوستی پدید آیدعقل باید که زود نستاید
When a friendship appears to you,
Intellect must not praise it too quickly.
وقت عشرت از او به کم دیدنکم شنیدن به از پسندیدن
At the time of pleasure, seeing less of him
And hearing less is better than approval.
مطلب گرچه جزم فرمانیپیکی از مقعدان زندانی
Do not seek, even if it is a firm command,
A messenger from among those sitting in prison.
آن طلب کن که داند و داردتا تو از وی وی از تو نازارد
Seek one who knows and possesses,
So that you do not hurt him, and he does not hurt you.
دوستی با مزاج بی خردیدور دور و هم ایدرست خودی
Friendship with a foolish temperament:
Keep far, far away, and yet here is your selfhood.
تا نباشی حریف بی خردانکه نکو کار بد شود ز بدان
Lest you be a companion of the foolish,
For the good-doer becomes evil from the wicked.
باد کز لطف اوست جان بر کارزهر گردد همی به صحبت مار
The wind, by whose grace life is sustained,
Becomes poison in the company of a serpent.
یار بد همچو خاردان بدرستکه همی دامنت بگیرد چست
An evil companion is like a patch of thorns at the door,
Which catches your skirt quickly.
زرد رویی زر از قرین بدستورنه سرخست تا قرین خودست
The pale face of gold is due to a bad companion (alloy);
Otherwise, it is red as long as it is with itself.
صحبت باغها به فصل بهارباد را هر زمان کند عطربار
The companionship of gardens in the spring season
Makes the wind fragrant at all times.
روغن کنجدی که بودی عامشد ز گلها عزیز و نیکو نام
Sesame oil, which was common,
Became precious and of good repute because of flowers.
چون به گلها سپرد نفس و نفسروغن کنجدش نخواند کس
When it yielded its soul and breath to the flowers,
No one called it sesame oil anymore.
این برست از سبو و آن از ذلگل از او نیکنام و از گل
This was freed from the jar and that from humiliation;
The flower became well-reputed from it, and it from the flower.
با بدان کم نشین که بد مانیخو پذیر است نفس انسانی
Sit little with the wicked, lest you remain wicked;
For the human soul is prone to adopting habits.
خوش خو از بدخوان سترگ شودمیش چون گرگ خورد گرگ شود
The good-natured becomes fierce from the bad companion;
The sheep, when it eats with the wolf, becomes a wolf.
صحبت نیک را ز دست مدهکه مه و به شوی ز صحبت مه
Do not let go of the company of the good,
For you will become great and better through the company of the great.
اسب توسن ز اسب ساکن رگگشت هم خو اگر نشد هم تگ
A wild horse, from a calm-natured horse,
Adopts the same temperament, even if it does not run at the same pace.
گر بدی صورتت شود مستهبد دانا ز نیک نادان به
Even if your appearance becomes deformed,
A wise bad person is better than an ignorant good one.
هیچ صحبت مباد با عامتکه چو خود مختصر کند نامت
May you have no companionship with the common folk,
For they will make your name insignificant like themselves.
صحبت عام آتش و پنبه استزشت نام و تباه و استنبه است
The company of the common is fire and cotton;
It is ill-reputed, ruinous, and weak.
صحبت عام در بهشت آبادمرگ باشد که مرگ عامی باد
The company of the common in populated paradise
Is death—may the death of the commoner be so.
با دو عاقل هوا نیامیزدیک هوا از دو عقل بگریزد
Passion does not mingle with two wise men;
A single passion flees from two intellects.
با بد و نیک جسم داند زیستجان شناسد که دوست و دشمن کیست
The body knows how to live with the bad and the good;
It is the soul that recognizes who is friend and who is enemy.
دوستی را که نیست با تو مجالکه بگوید حرام نیست حلال
A friend who has no opportunity with you
To say what is forbidden and what is allowed,
با تو تا لقمه دید جان و دلستچون شدت لقمه تیز و تیغ و شلست
As long as he sees a morsel with you, he is your heart and soul;
But when the morsel is gone, he is sharp, a sword, and a spear.
شکمش چون دل پیاله ببینوز دهانش دل چو لاله ببین
See his belly like the heart of a cup,
And see his heart like a tulip from his mouth.
با کله کی بود اخوت پاکزانکه گفتند اخوک من و اساک
How can there be pure brotherhood with worldly honors?
For they said: 'Your brother is he who consoles you.'
جامهٔ خون و گوشت پوست بودعیبهٔ عیب دوست دوست بود
The garment of blood and flesh is the skin;
The container of a friend's faults is the friend.
نیست در هیچ یار صدق و صفانیست با هیچ دوست مهر و وفا
There is no sincerity and purity in any companion;
There is no love and loyalty in any friend.
چون به علت کند سلام علیکاز بد و نیک تو شود بد و نیک
When he greets you for a motive,
His view of your good and bad changes based on his interest.
دوست و دشمن برای جان بایدتن بود کش غذای نان باید
Friend and enemy are needed for the soul;
It is the body that requires the nourishment of bread.
گر کنی چشم جفت بی خوابیدوستی به اخلاص کم یابی
Even if you pair your eyes with sleeplessness,
You will rarely find sincere friendship.
مر ترا زو وفا نخواهد خواستکه تنوریست با ترازو راست
He will not ask loyalty of you,
For he is like an oven straight with the scales.
پس تو اکنون مه به مه بد را باشدامن خویش گیر و خود را باش
So now, be monthly with the bad,
Hold your own skirt, and be yourself.
که بود عهد و عشق لقمه زنانبی مدد چون چراغ بیوه زنان
For the covenant and love of those who seek morsels
Is without support, like the lamp of widows.
صلح دشمن چو جنگ دوست بودکه از آن مغز آن چو پوست بود
The peace of an enemy is like the war of a friend,
For the brain of the former is like the skin of the latter.
دل در ایشان مبند کز گیهانهمه آدم دمند و مرجان جان
Do not bind your heart to them, for in the world
All are breath of Adam, but coral of life.
نیک را از بدان چه جاه بودزانکه عقرب هبوط ماه بود
What rank has the good person among the wicked?
For the Moon falls in the sign of Scorpio.

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