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دفتر دوم - بخش ۸۸ - شکایت گفتن پیرمردی به طبیب از رنجوریها و جواب گفتن طبیب او را / Book Two - Section 88 - The Complaint of an Old Man to a Physician About His Ailments and the Physician's Answer to Him

متن و ترجمه / Text and Translation

گفت پیری مر طبیبی را که مندر زحیرم از دماغ خویشتن
An old man said to a physician: "I
Am in torment from my head."
گفت از پیریست آن ضعف دماغگفت بر چشمم ز ظلمت هست داغ
He said: "That weakness of the brain is from old age."
He said: "On my eyes there is the brand of darkness."
گفت از پیریست ای شیخ قدیمگفت پشتم درد می آید عظیم
He said: "That is from old age, O ancient elder."
He said: "My back suffers great pain."
گفت از پیریست ای شیخ نزارگفت هر چه می خورم نبود گوار
He said: "That is from old age, O frail elder."
He said: "Whatever I eat does not digest."
گفت ضعف معده هم از پیریستگفت وقت دم مرا دمگیریست
He said: "Weakness of the stomach too is from old age."
He said: "When I breathe, I am seized with breathlessness."
گفت آری انقطاع دم بودچون رسد پیری دو صد علت شود
He said: "Yes — shortness of breath occurs;
When old age comes, two hundred ailments come."
گفت ای احمق برین بر دوختیاز طبیبی تو همین آموختی
He said: "O fool, you have stitched yourself to this alone;
From medicine you learned only this?
ای مدمغ عقلت این دانش ندادکه خدا هر رنج را درمان نهاد
O brainless one, did your intellect not give you this knowledge
That God has placed a remedy for every pain?
تو خر احمق ز اندک مایگیبر زمین ماندی ز کوته پایگی
You foolish ass, from pettiness
You have stayed on the ground from short-leggedness."
پس طبیبش گفت ای عمر تو شصتاین غضب وین خشم هم از پیریست
Then the physician said to him: "O you whose age is sixty,
This rage and this anger too are from old age.
چون همه اوصاف و اجزا شد نحیفخویشتن داری و صبرت شد ضعیف
When all attributes and parts have grown feeble,
Your self-restraint and your patience have grown weak.
بر نتابد دو سخن زو هی کندتاب یک جرعه ندارد قی کند
He cannot bear two words — he cries out;
He cannot bear a single sip — he vomits.
جز مگر پیری که از حقست مستدر درون او حیات طیبه ست
Unless perhaps an elder who is drunk with the Real —
Within him is hayat-i tayyiba, the pure life.
از برون پیرست و در باطن صبیخود چه چیزست آن ولی و آن نبی
Outwardly he is old, but inwardly a youth —
What indeed is that wali, what indeed is that nabi?
گر نه پیدااند پیش نیک و بدچیست با ایشان خسان را این حسد
If they are not manifest to the good and the evil alike,
What is this envy that the base harbor toward them?
ور نمی دانندشان علم الیقینچیست این بغض و حیل سازی و کین
And if they do not know them with 'ilm al-yaqin,
What is this hatred, scheming, and malice?
ور بدانندی جزای رستخیزچون زنندی خویش بر شمشیر تیز
And if they knew the recompense of the Resurrection,
How could they throw themselves upon a sharp sword?
بر تو می خندد مبین او را چنانصد قیامت در درونستش نهان
He laughs at you — do not regard him as he appears;
A hundred resurrections are hidden within him.
دوزخ و جنت همه اجزای اوستهرچه اندیشی تو او بالای اوست
Hell and paradise are all his parts;
Whatever you think, he is above it.
هرچه اندیشی پذیرای فناستآنک در اندیشه ناید آن خداست
Whatever you think is receptive to annihilation;
That which does not come into thought — that is God.
بر در این خانه گستاخی ز چیستگر همی دانند کاندر خانه کیست
What is the cause of this insolence at the door of this house,
If they know who is within the house?
ابلهان تعظیم مسجد می کننددر جفای اهل دل جد می کنند
Fools venerate the mosque
And earnestly persecute the people of heart.
آن مجازست این حقیقت ای خراننیست مسجد جز درون سروران
That is metaphor; this is reality, O asses —
The mosque is nothing but the interior of the masters.
مسجدی کان اندرون اولیاستسجده گاه جمله است آنجا خداست
A mosque that is the interior of the awliya —
That is the prostration-place of all; God is there.
تا دل مرد خدا نآمد به دردهیچ قرنی را خدا رسوا نکرد
Until the heart of a person of heart has not been brought to pain,
God has not disgraced any generation.
قصد جنگ انبیا می داشتندجسم دیدند آدمی پنداشتند
They intended to make war against the prophets;
They saw a body and thought it a mere human.
در تو هست اخلاق آن پیشینیانچون نمی ترسی که تو باشی همان
Within you are the dispositions of those ancients —
Why are you not afraid that you might be the same?
آن نشانیها همه چون در تو هستچون تو زیشانی کجا خواهی برست
Since all those signs are in you,
Since you are of them — where will you escape to?

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