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دفتر دوم - بخش ۵۸ - خواندن محتسب مست خراب افتاده را به زندان / Book Two - Section 58 - The Muhtasib Summoning the Fallen Dead Drunk to Prison

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محتسب در نیم شب جایی رسیددر بن دیوار مستی خفته دید
The muḥtasib arrived somewhere at midnight
and saw a drunk asleep at the foot of a wall.
گفت هی مستی چه خوردستی بگوگفت ازین خوردم که هست اندر سبو
He said: "Hey, drunkard, what have you drunk? Tell me."
He said: "I drank of that which is in the jug."
گفت آخر در سبو واگو که چیستگفت از آنک خورده ام گفت این خفیست
He said: "Then tell me, what is in the jug?"
He said: "Of what I have drunk." He said: "This is obscure!"
گفت آنچ خورده ای آن چیست آنگفت آنک در سبو مخفیست آن
He said: "What is it that you have drunk?"
He said: "That which is hidden in the jug."
دور می شد این سؤال و این جوابماند چون خر محتسب اندر خلاب
This question and answer kept going round and round;
the muḥtasib remained stuck in the mire like a donkey.
گفت او را محتسب هین آه کنمست هوهو کرد هنگام سخن
The muḥtasib said to him: "Come, heave a sigh!"
The drunk said "hū hū" at the moment of speech.
گفت گفتم آه کن هو می کنیگفت من شاد و تو از غم منحنی
He said: "I said sigh (āh), yet you say 'hū'!"
He said: "I am joyful and you are bent double with grief.
آه از درد و غم و بیدادیستهوی هوی می خوران از شادیست
'Āh' comes from pain and grief and injustice;
the 'hū hū' of the wine-drinkers comes from joy."
محتسب گفت این ندانم خیز خیزمعرفت متراش و بگذار این ستیز
The muḥtasib said: "I don't understand this; rise, rise!
Don't carve out gnosis — leave off this quarrel."
گفت رو تو از کجا من از کجاگفت مستی خیز تا زندان بیا
He said: "Go — you from where, I from where?"
He said: "Drunkard, rise and come to prison."
گفت مست ای محتسب بگذار و رواز برهنه کی توان بردن گرو
The drunk said: "O muḥtasib, leave me and go —
how can one take a pledge from one who is naked?
گر مرا خود قوت رفتن بدیخانهٔ خود رفتمی وین کی شدی
If I even had the strength to walk,
I would have gone to my own house — when would this have come about?
من اگر با عقل و با امکانمیهمچو شیخان بر سر دکانمی
If I were possessed of reason and means,
I would be, like the sheikhs, at the head of my shop."

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