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دفتر سوم - بخش ۱۹۳ - عشق جالینوس برین حیات دنیا بود کی هنر او همینجا بکار می‌آید هنری نورزیده است کی در آن بازار بکار آید آنجا خود را به عوام یکسان می‌بیند / Book Three - Section 193 - Galen's Love Was for the Life of This World Because His Skill Is of Use Only Here; He Has Not Practiced a Skill That Would Be of Use in That Market; There He Sees Himself as Equal to the Common People

متن و ترجمه / Text and Translation

آنچنانک گفت جالینوس راداز هوای این جهان و از مراد
Just as Galen the generous spoke
Of his love for this world and his desire:
راضیم کز من بماند نیم جانکه ز کون استری بینم جهان
"I am content that half a soul remain in me,
That I might see the world from a mule's hindquarters."
گربه می بیند بگرد خود قطارمرغش آیس گشته بودست از مطار
He sees a cat circling all around him,
His bird-soul had despaired of flight.
یا عدم دیدست غیر این جهاندر عدم نادیده او حشری نهان
Or he has seen nothing beyond this world but non-existence;
In that non-existence, unseen by him, a resurrection lies hidden.
چون جنین کش می کشد بیرون کرممی گریزد او سپس سوی شکم
Like a fetus whom the worm draws outward,
He flees back again toward the belly.
لطف رویش سوی مصدر می کنداو مقر در پشت مادر می کند
Grace turns his face toward the Origin,
Yet he makes his settled home upon the mother's back,
که اگر بیرون فتم زین شهر و کامای عجب بینم بدیده این مقام
Saying: "If I fall out from this city and this desire,
How wonderful — I would behold this place with open eyes!
یا دری بودی در آن شهر وخمکه نظاره کردمی اندر رحم
Or if there were a door in that city and its curve,
That I might gaze into the womb;
یا چو چشمهٔ سوزنی راهم بدیکه ز بیرونم رحم دیده شدی
Or if a needle's-eye of a path were given me,
That from outside, the womb might be seen by me."
آن جنین هم غافلست از عالمیهمچو جالینوس او نامحرمی
That fetus too is heedless of a world;
Like Galen, he is a stranger, uninitiated.
اونداند کآن رطوباتی که هستآن مدد از عالم بیرونی است
He does not know that the moistures present within —
That nourishment comes from the outer world,
آنچنانک چار عنصر در جهانصد مدد آرد ز شهر لامکان
Just as the four elements in this world
Bring a hundred sustaining gifts from the City of No-place (lā-makān).
آب و دانه در قفس گر یافتستآن ز باغ و عرصه ای درتافتست
If water and grain are found within the cage,
That has shone in from a garden and an open field.
جانهای انبیا بینند باغزین قفس در وقت نقلان و فراغ
The souls of the prophets behold that garden
From this cage, at the time of departure and release.
پس ز جالینوس و عالم فارغندهمچو ماه اندر فلکها بازغند
They are therefore free of Galen and his world;
Like the moon, they shine forth in the celestial spheres.
ور ز جالینوس این گفت افتراستپس جوابم بهر جالینوس نیست
And if what was attributed to Galen is a false report,
Then my reply is not directed at Galen.
این جواب آنکس آمد کین بگفتکه نبودستش دل پر نور جفت
This reply comes for the one who did speak thus,
Whose heart lacked a light-filled companion.
مرغ جانش موش شد سوراخ جوچون شنید از گربگان او عرجوا
The bird of his soul became a mouse, seeking holes,
When from the cats he heard: "Go back!"
زان سبب جانش وطن دید و قراراندرین سوراخ دنیا موش وار
For that reason his soul found homeland and rest
In this hole of the world, mouse-like.
هم درین سوراخ بنایی گرفتدرخور سوراخ دانایی گرفت
In this very hole he took up habitation;
Knowledge fitting for a hole he acquired.
پیشه هایی که مر او را در مزیدکاندرین سوراخ کار آید،گزید
Crafts and trades that would augment him —
He chose those that serve inside this hole.
زانک دل بر کند از بیرون شدنبسته شد راه رهیدن از بدن
Since he cut his heart off from going out,
The way of release from the body was sealed.
عنکبوت ار طبع عنقا داشتیاز لعابی خیمه کی افراشتی
If the spider had the nature of the 'Anqā,
Would it ever raise a tent from its own drool?
گربه کرده چنگ خود اندر قفسنام چنگش درد و سرسام و مغص
The cat has sunk its claws into the cage;
The name of those claws: pain, brain-fever, and colic.
گربه مرگست و مرض چنگال اومی زند بر مرغ و پر و بال او
Death is the cat and illness its claw,
It strikes at the bird and at its wings and feathers.
گوشه گوشه می جهد سوی دوامرگ چون قاضیست و رنجوری گوا
From corner to corner it leaps toward medicine;
Death is like a judge and illness the witness.
چون پیادهٔ قاضی آمد این گواهکه همی خواند ترا تا حکم گاه
For this witness has come as the judge's bailiff,
Who is summoning you to the place of judgment.
مهلتی می خواهی از وی در گریزگر پذیرد شد و گرنه گفت خیز
You beg him for a respite, trying to flee;
If he accepts, well; if not, he says: "Arise!"
جستن مهلت دوا و چاره هاکه زنی بر خرقهٔ تن پاره ها
Seeking respite through medicines and remedies
Is patching tears upon the cloak of the body.
عاقبت آید صباحی خشم وارچند باشد مهلت آخر شرم دار
In the end a wrathful morning comes —
How long can the respite last? Have shame at last!
عذر خود از شه بخواه ای پرحسدپیش از آنک آنچنان روزی رسد
Beg pardon from the King, O you full of envy,
Before such a day arrives.
وانک در ظلمت براند بارگیبرکند زان نور دل یکبارگی
And one who drives his mount through darkness
Has utterly stripped the heart's light from it all at once.
می گریزد از گوا و مقصدشکان گوا سوی قضا می خواندش
He flees from the witness — yet his very destination
Is where that witness is calling him: toward the Divine Decree (qaḍā).

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