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بخش ۳۶ - التّمثیل فی صلابة طریق الاسلام / Section 36 - The Allegory on the Steadfastness of the Path of Islam

متن و ترجمه / Text and Translation

رفت زی روم و فدی از اسلامتا شوند از جهاد نیکو نام
They went towards Rome and sacrificed for Islam
So that they might become well-named through jihad.
وهنی افتاد تا شکسته شدندچند کس زان میانه بسته شدند
A weakness befell them until they were defeated,
Several people among them were bound.
علوی بود و دانشومندیحیز مردی ولی خردمندی
There was an Alid and a scholar,
An effeminate man, yet wise.
کس فرستادشان عظیم الرومکرد بر هر سه شخص حکم سدوم
The Great of Rome sent someone to them,
And issued the decree of Sodom upon all three.
گفت شست مغانه بربندیدبت به معبود خویش بپسندید
He said: 'Tie the Magian belt around yourselves,
Accept the idol as your deity,
ورنه مر هر سه را بسوزانیمبکنم هر بدی که بتوانم
Or else I will burn all three of you,
I will do every evil I can.'
بنشستند و هر سه رای زدندهر سه تن دست در دعای زدند
They sat and all three deliberated,
All three raised their hands in prayer.
گفت مرد فقیه رخصت هستبسته در دست خصم عهد شکست
The jurist said, 'There is an allowance,
Tied in the enemy's hands, the covenant is broken.
که چو بر کفر کرد خصم اجبارنه به دل از زبان دهد اقرار
For when the enemy forces disbelief,
One may confess it with the tongue, not the heart.
بعد از آن چون فرج فراز آیدبه سر شرط و عهد باز آید
After that, when relief arrives,
One returns to the condition and covenant.'
علوی گفت مر مراست شفیعجدم آن سرور شریف و وضیع
The Alid said, 'I have an intercessor,
My ancestor is that noble and humble master.'
حیز گفتا به مرد دانشمندکه ز کار شما شدم خرسند
The effeminate man said to the scholar,
'I am satisfied with your deeds.
مر ترا علم تو دلیل بسستعلوی را پدر خلیل بسست
For you, your knowledge is proof enough,
For the Alid, his father Khalil is enough.
من که باشم مخنث دو جهانکز بد من شود جهان ویران
Who am I, the effeminate one of the two worlds,
That the world should be ruined by my evil?
هرچه خواهید با تنم بکنیدگو بگیرید و گردنم بزنید
Do whatever you wish with my body,
Tell them to take me and strike my neck.
نیک و بد هست پیش من یکساننام نیکو گزیده ام ز جهان
Good and evil are the same to me,
I have chosen a good name from the world.
سر فدی کرده ام پی دین راچکنم جان و عار سجین را
I have sacrificed my head for religion,
What would I do with life and the shame of Sijjin?
کشته بهتر مرا به نام نکوکه بوم زنده با هزار آهو
Better for me to be killed with a good name,
Than to be alive with a thousand faults.'
جان بداد و یکی سجود نکردبر در عار و شک قعود نکرد
He gave his life and did not perform a single prostration,
He did not sit at the door of shame and doubt.
ای به مردی تو در زمانه مثلحیز مردی چنین نمود عمل
O you who are a proverb of manliness in the age,
An effeminate man performed such a deed!
تو که مردی چنین عمل بنمایورنه بیهوده بین فقع مگشای
You who are a man, perform such a deed,
Or else do not open your mouth in vain boasting.
هرچه جز راه حق مجازی دانهرچه جز کار اوست بازی دان
Know that whatever is other than the path of Truth is metaphorical,
Know that whatever is other than His work is play.
هرچه جسمت به روح بنمایدچون تو خردی ترا بزرگ آید
Whatever your body shows to your soul,
Because you are small, appears great to you.
عقل و جان پرده دار فرمانندچاکرانش نبات و حیوانند
Intellect and soul are the veil-bearers of the command,
Its servants are the plants and animals.
آنچه عقد نبات و حیوانستاندر اقطاع آسیابانست
That which is the knot of plants and animals,
Is in the fiefdom of the miller.
عالم طبع و وهم و حس و خیالهمه بازیچه اند و ما اطفال
The world of nature, illusion, sense, and imagination,
Are all playthings and we are children.
غازیان طفل خویش را پیوستتیغ چوبین ازان دهند به دست
Warriors constantly give their children,
Wooden swords in their hands,
تا چو آن طفل مرد کار شودتیغ چوبینش ذوالفقار شود
So that when that child becomes a man of action,
His wooden sword becomes Dhu al-Fiqar.
مادران پیش خویش از آن به مجازدختران را کنند لعبت باز
Mothers before themselves in metaphor,
Make their daughters play with dolls,
تاش چون شوی خواستار آیدآن به کدبانوییش به کار آید
So that when a husband comes seeking her,
It becomes useful for her housekeeping.
تا چو بگذاشت لعبت بی جانلعبت زنده پرورد پس از آن
So that when she leaves the lifeless doll,
She may raise a living doll after that.
طفل دکانک از پی آن کردتا به دکان رسد چو گردد مرد
The child played shopkeeper for this reason,
So he reaches the real shop when he becomes a man.
این همه نقش دانی از پی چیستتا به معنی رسی بدانی زیست
All these forms, do you know what they are for?
So that you reach the meaning and know how to live.
این جهان صورتست و آن معنیاندرین جان واندر آن جان نی
This world is form and that is meaning,
In this there is no soul, and in that is the soul.
تا بر این و به آن به انبازیآدمیزاده می کند بازی
So that with this and that in partnership,
The child of Adam plays.
تا چو شد مرد و چشم او شد بازآید از نقشها به معنی باز
So that when he becomes a man and his eyes open,
He returns from forms to meaning.
زان که خود نیست از درون سرایدر دبستان عقل بازی جای
Because there is no place from within the house
In the school of the intellect for play.
بندگان را ادیب بیگانه ستخواجه را خود ادیب در خانه ست
For slaves the tutor is a stranger,
For the master, the tutor is in the house.
شاه زاده ست آدمی و نسیبنبود هیچ بی رقیب و ادیب
Man is a prince and of noble birth,
He is never without a guardian and a tutor.
هرکه فرزند شاه کی باشدبی ادیب و رقیب کی باشد
Whoever is the child of a great king,
How can he be without a tutor and a guardian?
آدمی عالم مقصر نیستهمه همتا و هم همه بر نیست
Man is not a deficient world,
All are not equals and all are not fruitful.
تو که باشی هنوز آدم راچه شناسی تو خاتم و جم را
Who are you yet to know Adam?
How do you know the seal and Jamshid?
که ستور است و دیو در پایههم فرومایه هم گرانمایه
For he is an animal and a demon in rank,
Both base and precious.
خو که نز راه بخردی باشداز ستوری و از ددی باشد
Habits that are not from the path of wisdom,
Are from animality and savagery.
آدمی همچو مرغ با پر نیستهم همه بار و هم همه بر نیست
Man is not like a bird with wings,
He is not all burden, nor is he all fruit.
هرکه نان با خرد نداند خورددعوی آدمی نباید کرد
Whoever does not know how to eat bread with wisdom,
Should not claim to be human.
آدمی بی خرد ستور بودگرچه دارد دو دیده کور بود
A man without wisdom is an animal,
Even if he has two eyes, he is blind.
گر تو جویای عالم رازیای زمن با زمانه چون سازی
If you are a seeker of the world of secrets,
O disabled one, how will you manage with the times?
چند از این آسیا و آن گلخننام این باغ و وصف آن گلشن
How much of this mill and that furnace?
The name of this garden and the description of that rose garden.
بهر آن کرد پادشات عزیزتا کنی نان و آب کو و کمیز
Did the King make you dear for this reason,
So that you turn bread and water into filth and urine?
تا کی از دور چرخ دون لئیمخورد دونان بوی چو مال یتیم
How long from the turn of the base and mean wheel,
Will you be the food of the base like an orphan's wealth?
سال و مه مانده در غم نانیوز لباس علوم عریانی
Months and years remaining in the sorrow of bread,
And naked of the garments of knowledge.
قوت خودبینی از کفایت خوداعتقادت بدست و دینت بد
You see your strength from your own sufficiency,
Your belief is bad and your religion is bad.
رازق خویش را نمی دانیبندهٔ آب و چاکر نانی
You do not know your Provider,
You are a slave to water and a servant to bread.
تو ز جان فوت و موت می دانیز آتش ایمن ز فقر ترسانی
From life, you only know passing and death,
Safe from the fire, you are terrified of poverty.

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