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بخش ۲۵ - تمثیل / Section 25 - Parable

متن و ترجمه / Text and Translation

جغد مسکین نشسته پهلوی بازچون از آنجا دهندشان پرواز
The poor owl sat beside the falcon;
When they make them fly from there,
باز سازد ز قصر شه خانهجغد پرد به کنج ویرانه
The falcon makes its home in the king's palace,
The owl flies to the corner of a ruin.
میل هر کس به سوی مسکن اوستروی هر مرغ در نشیمن اوست
Everyone's inclination is towards their dwelling,
The face of every bird is towards its nest.
جوان به وقتی که مصحلت بینندصوفیان از سماع بنشینند
When they see it fit,
The Sufis sit back from the Sama',
خادم مطبخ آورد به میانبهر اطعام قوم ، سفره و خوان
The kitchen servant brings to the middle,
To feed the group, the tablecloth and the tray.
سفره ای از حرام مالامالهمه چیزی در او به غیر حلال
A tablecloth full of forbidden things,
Everything in it is anything but permissible.
نانش از گندمی که شحنه شهراز فقیران ده گرفته به قهر
Its bread is from the wheat that the city's police chief,
Has taken by force from the poor of the village.
گوشت زان گوسفند صحراییکه ربوده ست ترک یغمایی
The meat is from that desert sheep,
That the plundering Turk has stolen.
خود به حرمت از آنچه کردم فاشصد ره افزون دگر حوایج آش
In its forbidden nature, from what I have revealed,
A hundred times more are the other ingredients of the soup.
وجه حلوا و خرج پالودهداده تردامنان آلوده
The money for the halva and the cost of the paloodeh,
Has been given by the polluted and sinful.
میوه از بوستان بیوه زنانکند زانجا به غصب میوه کنان
The fruit is from the orchard of widows,
Plucked from there by force by the fruit-pickers.
شیخ و یاران او به شهوت و آزچون به سفره کنند دست دراز
The sheikh and his friends, out of lust and greed,
When they reach out their hands to the tablecloth,
زند آن سان شره بر ایشان راهکه فرامش کنند بسم الله
Gluttony blocks their path in such a way,
That they forget to say Bismillah.
آن یکی را گرفته تلواسهکه خورد بیشتر ز همکاسه
One of them is seized by anxiety,
To eat more than his table companion.
لقمه را از شتاب کم خایدکار دندان به معده فرماید
He chews his morsel little out of haste,
Commanding his stomach to do the work of the teeth.
وان دگر یک نهفته می نگردلقمه و چمچه اش همی شمرد
And the other secretly watches,
Counting his morsels and his spoons.
گر کند در حساب چمچه غلطگوید او را هزار گونه سقط
If he makes a mistake in the count of the spoons,
He says a thousand kinds of abuses to him:
کانچه کردی خلاف سنت بودتوبه کن از خلاف سنت زود
'That which you did was against the Sunnah,
Repent from going against the Sunnah quickly!'
کند اظهار بخل و ضنت رالیک سازد بهانه سنت را
He reveals his stinginess and miserliness,
But makes the Sunnah his excuse.
می نهد آن دگر ز نفس دغللقمه لقمه در آستین و بغل
Another one, out of a deceitful soul, places
Morsel after morsel in his sleeve and armpit,
که تبرک ز خوان درویشانمی برم بهر خانه و خویشان
Saying, 'As a blessing from the table of the dervishes,
I take this for the house and relatives.
هست این لقمه مایه برکاتهر که این لقمه خورد یافت نجات
This morsel is the source of blessings,
Whoever eats this morsel finds salvation.'
باشد این مقتضای طبع خسیسلیک بر حاضران کند تلبیس
This is the requirement of his base nature,
But he deceives those present.
چون شکم ز آش و نان بینبارندسفره را از میانه بردارند
When they fill their bellies with soup and bread,
They remove the tablecloth from the middle.
شیخ بهر فتوح زمره خاصفاتحه خواند آنگهی اخلاص
The sheikh, for the spiritual openings of the special group,
Recites Al-Fatiha, and then Al-Ikhlas.
لیکن آن فاتحه ز کبر و ریانرود از بروتشان بالا
But that recitation, out of pride and hypocrisy,
Does not go higher than their mustaches.
باد انفاسشان ز نفس تباهچون نیابد به سوی بالا راه
The wind of their breaths from a ruined soul,
When it does not find a way upward,
گند لعنت شود فرود آیدسبلت و ریششان بیالاید
Becomes the stench of a curse and descends,
Soiling their mustaches and their beards.
چون که بنمود «اذا طعمتم » روکار بندند امر فانتشروا
When 'Idha ta'imtum' (When you have eaten) shows its face,
They act upon the command 'fantasheru' (disperse).
همه با معده های آگندههمه با خاطر پراگنده
All with stuffed stomachs,
All with scattered minds.
شکم همچو طبل پیش نهندروی در خوابگاه خویش نهند
They place their drum-like bellies forward,
And set their faces towards their sleeping places.
نه ز انوار ذکرشان شررینه ز حال سماعشان اثری
Neither a spark from the lights of their dhikr,
Nor a trace from the state of their sama'.
حاصل ذکر درد گردن و سراثر رقص ضعف پشت و کمر
The result of their dhikr is pain in the neck and head,
The effect of their dancing is weakness in the back and waist.
اکلشان هم نتیجه تازهندهد غیر خواب و خمیازه
Their eating, too, gives no fresh result,
Other than sleep and yawning.
صحبت پاکشان ز صدق و وفاقمایه صد هزار کذب و نفاق
Their pure companionship, supposedly from truth and harmony,
Is the source of a hundred thousand lies and hypocrisy.
روز دیگر ازین قیاس بگیرنیست حاجت که من کنم تقریر
Take the next day by this analogy,
There is no need for me to elaborate.
روز و شب کار این و پیشه چنینآه اگر بگذرد همیشه چنین
Day and night, their work and profession is like this;
Alas, if it always passes like this!
نجنا رب من تدلسناو قنا من شرور انفسنا
Save us, O Lord, from our deceitfulness,
And protect us from the evils of our souls,
ثم من سیئات اعمالانتشت من هنات احوال
Then from the bad deeds,
That arise from the flaws of circumstances.

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