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بخش ۴ - الحکایه و التمثیل / Section 4 - The Tale and the Parable

متن و ترجمه / Text and Translation

شنود آن روستایی این سخن راستکه عنبر فضلهٔ گاو ان دریا ست
That villager heard this true saying,
That ambergris is the excrement of the sea cow.
گوی پر آب اندر ده فرو کردبیامد از خری گاوی در او کرد
He took a water-filled ball into the village,
Out of foolishness, he put a cow in it.
همه سرگین گاو از آب برداشتبدان عنبر فروش آمد که زر داشت
He gathered all the cow's dung from the water,
He went to an ambergris seller who possessed gold.
بدو گفت «این ز من بستان بده زرکزین بهتر نبینی هیچ عنبر »
He said to him, 'Take this from me and give me gold,
For you will never see any ambergris better than this.'
چو مرد آن دید گفتا سر به ره آرکه این ریش ترا شاید نگه دار
When the man saw it, he said, 'Come to your senses!
Keep this, as it is worthy of your beard.
چو هر کس پادشاه ریش خویش استچو تو شه را چنین عنبر به ریش است
Since everyone is the king of his own beard,
Such ambergris belongs on the beard of a king like you.
چو ریشت دید گاو این عنبرت دادبه ریش از کون گاو این عنبرت باد
Since the cow saw your beard, it gave you this ambergris;
May this ambergris from the cow's rear be upon your beard!'
تو گر با حق به شب در راز گوییدگر روز آن به فخری باز گویی
If you speak secrets with God at night,
And the next day you recount it with pride,
مکن گر بندهٔ طاعت بهاییکه آن شرکی بود اندر خدایی
Do not seek a price, if you are a servant of obedience,
For that is polytheism in the realm of the Divine.
چو تو بفروختی طاعت به صد باریقین می دان که حق نبود خریدار
Since you have sold your obedience a hundred times,
Know for sure that the Truth (God) will not be the buyer.
ریا و عجب کوه آتشین استنمی دانی که کوه دوزخ این است
Hypocrisy and conceit are a mountain of fire;
Do you not know that this is the mountain of Hell?
اگر تو طاعت ابلیس کردیچو عجب آری در آن ابلیس گردی
Even if you worshipped as much as Iblis,
When you bring conceit into it, you become an Iblis.
جوی عجب تو ، گر طاعت جهانی ستمثال آتشی در پنبه دانی ست
A single grain of your conceit, even with the obedience of a whole world,
Is like fire in a cotton field, you should know.

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