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بخش ۲۸ - فی الحكایة و التمثیل / Section 28 - The Tale and the Parable

متن و ترجمه / Text and Translation

اصمعی میرفت در راهی سواردید کناسی شده مشغول کار
Asma'i was riding along a road,
He saw a latrine cleaner busy at work.
نفس را میگفت ای نفس نفیسکردمت آزاد از کار خسیس
He was saying to his soul, "O precious soul,
I have freed you from base labor.
هم ترا دایم گرامی داشتمهم برای نیک نامی داشتم
I have always held you in high regard,
And I have kept you for the sake of a good name."
اصمعی گفتش تو باری این مگویاین سخن اینجا در آن مسکین مگوی
Asma'i said to him, "You, at least, should not say this!
Do not speak these words here in this miserable state!
چون تو هستی در نجاست کارگرآن چه باشد در جهان زین خوارتر
Since you are a worker in filth,
What in the world could be more degrading than this?"
گفت باشد خوارتر افتادنمبر در همچون توئی استادنم
He replied, "What would be a more degrading fall for me,
Is standing at the door of someone like you!
هرکه پیش خلق خدمتگر بودکار من صد بار ازو بهتر بود
Whoever is a servant to other people,
My work is a hundred times better than his.
گرچه ره جز سر بریدن نبودمگردن منت کشیدن نبودم
Even if there were no path for me but to have my head severed,
I would not bow my neck to bear the burden of obligation."

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