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بخش ۳۸ - حکایت در ظالم و مظلوم / Section 38 - The Tale of the Oppressor and the Oppressed

متن و ترجمه / Text and Translation

کودکی با حریف بی انصافگفت کای سر به سر دغا و خلاف
A child said to an unfair opponent,
"O you who are entirely deceit and contradiction!
تو درازی و نیز در یازیپس همان به که گوز کم بازی
You are tall and also reach far,
Thus it is better that you play walnuts less."
اندرین شاهراه بیم و امیددایهٔ جسم تست دیو سپید
On this highway of fear and hope,
The wet nurse of your body is the White Demon.
شب و روز از پی غذای تنتمانده پستان دیو در دهنت
Night and day, in pursuit of food for your body,
The breast of the demon remains in your mouth.
که هوای هلاکت اندیشتسر پستان سیه کند پیشت
For your ruin-seeking desire
Will blacken the tip of the breast before you.
کو یکی مادری که از سر دردکودک از شیر باز داند کرد
Where is a mother who, out of compassion,
Knows how to wean her child from milk?
کردت ارچه چو گوز بن گردنشیر پستان غافلی خوردن
Although drinking the milk of the breast of heedlessness
Made your neck thick like the base of a walnut tree.
ناگهی بینی از در بستاناجل آید سیه کند پستان
Suddenly you will see from the garden door,
Death arrives and blackens the breast.
شیر خوردنت امل دراز کنداجلت خو ز شیر باز کند
Drinking milk prolongs your hope,
Your death will break your habit of milk.
دل خورد شیر او چو گاو سبوسنزد عامی چو پارسا سالوس
The heart drinks its milk like a cow eating bran,
Before the commoner, like a hypocritical ascetic.
باز کن خو ز شیر خوردن پرطمع از شیر ماده گاو ببر
Break the habit of drinking too much milk,
Cut off your greed from the cow's milk.
بر سر پل دل وطر چه بوددر سرای خطر بطر چه بود
On the bridge, what is the desire of the heart?
In the house of danger, what is insolence?
طین که ابلیس داشت از وی ننگتو چو دینش گرفته در بر تنگ
The clay which Iblis was ashamed of,
You have embraced tightly like religion.
زآدمی قبله عقل و دین دارینه نباتی که قبله طین داری
As a human, your Qibla is intellect and religion,
You are not a plant whose Qibla is clay.
نبوی پیش جهل دست آموزبر همه آرزو شوی پیروز
If you are not an apprentice to ignorance,
You will be victorious over every desire.
دل ز گل بگسل ار یقین داریدور کن کین ز دل چو دین داری
Sever the heart from clay if you have certainty,
Remove hatred from the heart if you have religion.
گر تو در خطهٔ خطر شب و روزبا خرد همچو طفل باز گوز
If you are in the realm of danger night and day,
With intellect like a child playing with walnuts.
خانهٔ جغد را بکوشیدیبه گچ و سنگ و نقش پوشیدی
You strove for the house of the owl,
You covered it with plaster, stone, and painting.
سال طوفان و خانه آشفتهتو درو گاه مست و گه خفته
The year of the flood, and the house disturbed,
You in it, sometimes drunk and sometimes asleep.
نه که چون ژاله ای فرو باردخانه را بر سرت فرود آرد
Is it not that when it rains like hail,
It will bring the house down upon your head?
روز و شب گاه و بیگه از بارانغافل از راه آب و ناودان
Day and night, occasionally and untimely from the rain,
Unaware of the waterway and the gutter.
چون ترا برد در سفر طوفانبر تو خندند نقش و گچ پس از آن
When the flood takes you away on a journey,
The painting and plaster will laugh at you thereafter.
بر دکان فریب و تلبیستدست خوش یافتست ابلیست
In the shop of deceit and trickery,
Iblis has found you an easy prey.
هم ز دست خودت در این بنیادپای در گل بماند و سر بر باد
By your own hand in this foundation,
Your foot remained in the mud and your head in the wind.
هست از او امر و نهی و آرو میاراز تو بیشه است عمر دست افزار
From Him is command and prohibition, and 'bring' and 'do not bring',
From you is the thicket, life is the tool.
آنچه سود آید او برد به درستوآنچه باشد زیان ز مایهٔ تست
Whatever profit comes, He takes it rightly,
And whatever is loss, is from your capital.
ناگرفته به رشوت از دین نوررایگان دیو را شده مزدور
Not having taken light from religion as a bribe,
You have become a free laborer for the demon.

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