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حکایت مفلسی که عاشق شاه مصر شد / The Tale of a Destitute Man Who Fell in Love with the King of Egypt

متن و ترجمه / Text and Translation

بود اندر مصر شاهی نامدارمفلسی بر شاه عاشق گشت زار
There was a renowned king in Egypt,
A destitute man fell miserably in love with the king.
چون خبر آمد ز عشقش شاه راخواند حالی عاشق گم راه را
When the news of his love reached the king,
He immediately summoned the misguided lover.
گفت چون عاشق شدی بر شهریاراز دو کار اکنون یکی کن اختیار
He said, "Since you have fallen in love with the sovereign,
Choose now one of two options:
یا به ترک شهر، وین کشور بگوییا نه، در عشقم به ترک سر بگوی
Either leave the city and bid farewell to this country,
Or else, in my love, bid farewell to your head.
با تو گفتم کار تو یک بارگیسر بریدن خواهی یا آوارگی
I have told you your situation entirely at once:
Do you desire beheading or banishment?"
چون نبود آن مرد عاشق مرد کارکرد او را شهر رفتن اختیار
Since that enamored man was not a man of action (true lover),
He chose to leave the city.
چون برفت آن مفلس بی خویشتنشاه گفتا سر ببریدش ز تن
When that destitute, selfless man departed,
The king ordered his head to be severed from his body.
حاجبی گفتا که هست او بی گناهازچه سربریدنش فرمود شاه
A chamberlain said, "He is innocent,
Why did the king order his beheading?"
شاه گفتا زانک او عاشق نبوددر طریق عشق من صادق نبود
The king replied, "Because he was not a true lover;
He was not sincere in the path of my love.
گر چنان بودی که بودی مرد کارسربریدن کردی اینجا اختیار
If he had been a true man of action,
He would have chosen beheading right here.
هرک سر بر وی به از جانان بودعشق ورزیدن برو تاوان بود
Anyone who values his head more than the beloved,
Practicing love is a penalty for him.
گر ز من او سربریدن خواستیشهریار از مملکت برخاستی
If he had asked for beheading from me,
The sovereign would have abdicated the kingdom.
بر میان بستی کمر در پیش اوخسرو عالم شدی درویش او
I would have fastened a belt around my waist before him,
The monarch of the world would have become his dervish.
لیک چون در عشق دعوی دار بودسربریدن سازدش نهمار زود
But since he was merely making a claim in love,
Beheading will suit him very soon.
هرکه در هجرم سر سر دارد اومدعیست دامن تر دارد او
Whoever in my separation holds on to his head,
Is a pretender and has a stained skirt.
این بدان گفتم که تا هر بی فروغکم زند در عشق ما لاف دروغ
I said this so that every lusterless person
Would boast less of false claims in our love."
دیگری گفتش که نفسم دشمن استچون روم ره زانک هم ره رهزنست
Another bird said to him: "My ego (nafs) is my enemy,
How can I travel the path, because my companion is a highwayman?
نفس سگ هرگز نشد فرمان برممن ندانم تا ز دستش جان برم
The dog-like ego never became obedient to me,
I do not know how I will escape with my life from its hands.
آشنا شد گرگ در صحرا مراو آشنا نیست این سگ رعنا مرا
The wolf in the desert became familiar with me,
And this arrogant dog is not familiar to me.
در عجایب مانده ام زین بی وفاتا چرا می اوفتد در آشنا
I am left in wonder by this faithless one,
As to why it falls upon a familiar friend."
گفت ای سگ در جوالت کرده خوشهم چو خاکی پای مالت کرده خوش
He (the hoopoe) said: "O you, whom the dog has comfortably put in its sack,
And has comfortably trampled you like dust.
نفس تو هم احول و هم اعورستهم سگ و هم کاهل و هم کافرست
Your ego is both squint-eyed and one-eyed,
It is both a dog, and lazy, and an infidel.
گر کسی بستایدت اما دروغاز دروغی نفس تو گیرد فروغ
If someone praises you, even if it is a lie,
Your ego derives luster from a lie.
نیست روی آن که این سگ به شودکز دروغی این چنین فربه شود
There is no possibility that this dog will improve,
For it grows so fat from a lie.
بود در اول همه بی حاصلیکودکی و بی دلی و غافلی
In the beginning, it was all fruitlessness:
Childhood, and faint-heartedness, and negligence.
بود در اوسط همه بیگانگیوز جوانی شعبهٔ دیوانگی
In the middle, it was all alienation,
And from youth, a branch of madness.
بود در آخر که پیری بود کارجان خرف درمانده تن گشته نزار
In the end, when old age became the affair,
The soul became dotard and helpless, the body became frail.
با چنین عمری به جهل آراستهکی شود این نفس سگ پیراسته
With such a life adorned with ignorance,
When will this dog-like ego become purified?
چون ز اول تا به آخر غافلیستحاصل ما لاجرم بی حاصلیست
Since from the beginning to the end it is negligence,
Our harvest is inevitably fruitlessness.
بنده دارد در جهان این سگ بسیبندگی سگ کند آخر کسی
This dog has many slaves in the world,
How can anyone eventually do the servitude of a dog?
با وجود نفس بودن ناخوش استزانک نفست دوزخی پر آتش است
To exist alongside the ego is unpleasant,
Because your ego is a hell full of fire.
گه به دوزخ در سعیر شهوتستگاه در وی زمهریر نخوتست
Sometimes in hell, it is in the blazing fire of lust,
Sometimes within it is the freezing cold of pride.
دوزخ الحق زان خوش است و دل پذیرکو دو مغزست آتش است و زمهریر
Hell, in truth, is pleasant and agreeable compared to it,
Because it (the ego) is two-brained: it is fire and freezing cold.
صد هزاران دل بمرد از غم همیوین سگ کافر نمی میرد دمی
Hundreds of thousands of hearts died from sorrow,
And this infidel dog does not die for a moment."

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