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دفتر سوم - بخش ۳۷ - حکایت مارگیر کی اژدهای فسرده را مرده پنداشت در ریسمانهاش پیچید و آورد به بغداد / Book Three - Section 37 - The Tale of the Snake-Catcher Who Thought the Frozen Dragon Was Dead, Wrapped It in His Ropes, and Brought It to Baghdad

متن و ترجمه / Text and Translation

یک حکایت بشنو از تاریخ گویتا بری زین راز سرپوشیده بوی
Hear a tale from the teller of histories, so that you may catch the scent of this veiled secret.
مارگیری رفت سوی کوهسارتا بگیرد او به افسون هاش مار
A snake-catcher went toward the mountains to catch snakes with his spells.
گر گران و گر شتابنده بودآنک جوینده ست یابنده بود
Whether slow or hurried, the one who seeks is the one who finds.
در طلب زن دایما تو هر دو دستکه طلب در راه نیکو رهبر ست
Always put both hands to the search, for seeking is a good guide on the path.
لنگ و لوک و خفته شکل و بی ادبسوی او می غیژ و او را می طلب
Lame, awkward, seemingly asleep and ill-mannered, crawl toward Him and seek Him.
گه به گفت و گه به خاموشی و گهبوی کردن گیر هر سو بوی شه
Sometimes with speech, sometimes with silence, and sometimes take up scenting in every direction for the King's scent.
گفت آن یعقوب با اولاد خویشجستن یوسف کنید از حد بیش
Jacob said to his children: seek Joseph beyond all bounds.
هر حس خود را درین جستن به جدهر طرف رانید شکل مستعد
Drive every sense earnestly in this search in every direction, each in its fitting form.
گفت از روح خدا لاتیأسواهمچو گم کرده پسر رو سو به سو
He said, “Do not despair of God's spirit”; like one who has lost a son, go from side to side.
از ره حس دهان پرسان شویدگوش را بر چار راه آن نهید
On the road of sense, ask with your mouth; set your ear at the four crossroads.
هر کجا بوی خوش آید بو بریدسوی آن سر کاشنای آن سرید
Wherever a sweet scent comes, follow the scent toward that head/source, for you belong to that head/source.
هر کجا لطفی ببینی از کسیسوی اصل لطف ره یابی عسی
Wherever you see kindness from anyone, perhaps you will find a road toward the source of kindness.
این همه خوش ها ز دریایی ست ژرفجزو را بگذار و بر کل دار طرف
All these pleasant things are from a deep sea; leave the part and keep your gaze on the whole.
جنگ های خلق بهر خوبی استبرگ بی برگی نشان طوبی است
People's wars are for the sake of goodness; the leaf of leaflessness is a sign of Tuba.
خشم های خلق بهر آشتی ستدام راحت دایما بی راحتی ست
People's angers are for the sake of reconciliation; the trap of ease is always unease.
هر زدن بهر نوازش را بودهر گله از شکر آگه می کند
Every blow is for caressing; every complaint points to gratitude.
بوی بر از جزو تا کل ای کریمبوی بر از ضد تا ضد ای حکیم
Smell your way from part to whole, noble one; smell your way from opposite to opposite, wise one.
جنگ ها می آشتی آرد درستمارگیر از بهر یاری مار جست
Wars bring reconciliation rightly; the snake-catcher sought the snake for the sake of aid.
بهر یاری مار جوید آدمیغم خورد بهر حریف بی غمی
For the sake of aid a person seeks a snake; he suffers grief for the sake of a carefree companion.
او همی جستی یکی ماری شگرفگرد کوهستان و در ایام برف
He was seeking a remarkable snake around the mountains in days of snow.
اژدهایی مرده دید آنجا عظیمکه دلش از شکل او شد پر ز بیم
He saw there a huge dead-looking dragon whose form filled his heart with fear.
مارگیر اندر زمستان شدیدمار می جست اژدهایی مرده دید
In severe winter the snake-catcher was seeking snakes and saw a dead-looking dragon.
مارگیر از بهر حیرانی خلقمار گیرد اینت نادانی خلق
The snake-catcher catches snakes to astonish people; behold the ignorance of people.
آدمی کوهی ست ، چون مفتون شود ؟کوه اندر مار حیران چون شود ؟
A human being is a mountain; when he is enchanted, how can the mountain be bewildered by a snake?
خویشتن نشناخت مسکین آدمیاز فزونی آمد و شد در کمی
Poor man did not know himself; he came from abundance and became diminished.
خویشتن را آدمی ارزان فروختبود اطلس خویش بر دلقی بدوخت
Man sold himself cheaply: he was satin, yet patched himself onto a tattered cloak.
صد هزاران مار و که حیران اوستاو چرا حیران شده ست و مار دوست ؟
Hundreds of thousands of snakes and mountains are astonished at him; why has he become astonished and snake-loving?
مارگیر آن اژدها را برگرفتسوی بغداد آمد از بهر شگفت
The snake-catcher took up that dragon and came toward Baghdad for spectacle.
اژدهایی چون ستون خانه ایمی کشیدش از پی دانگانه ای
A dragon like the pillar of a house: he dragged it for the sake of a small coin.
کاژدهای مرده ای آورده امدر شکارش من جگرها خورده ام
“I have brought a dead dragon; I suffered greatly in hunting it.”
او همی مرده گمان بردش ولیکزنده بود و او ندیدش نیک نیک
He supposed it dead, but it was alive, and he had not looked at it carefully.
او ز سرما ها و برف افسرده بودزنده بود و شکل مرده می نمود
It was numbed by cold and snow; it was alive but showed the form of the dead.
عالم افسرده ست و نام او جمادجامد افسرده بود ای اوستاد
The world is numbed, and its name is inanimate matter; the solid is the frozen, O master.
باش تا خورشید حشر آید عیانتا ببینی جنبش جسم جهان
Wait until the sun of resurrection appears, so that you may see the motion of the world's body.
چون عصای موسی اینجا مار شدعقل را از ساکنان اخبار شد
Just as Moses' staff became a snake here, intellect received news from those thought to be still.
پارهٔ خاک تو را چون مرد ساختخاک ها را جملگی شاید شناخت
Since a piece of earth was made into man for you, all earths deserve to be known.
مرده زین سو اند و زان سو زنده اندخامش اینجا و آن طرف گوینده اند
They are dead on this side and alive on that side; silent here and speaking there.
چون از آن سوشان فرستد سوی ماآن عصا گردد سوی ما اژدها
When He sends them from that side toward us, that staff becomes a dragon for us.
کوهها هم لحن داودی کندجوهر آهن به کف مومی بود
The mountains too make Davidic melody; the substance of iron was wax in his hand.
باد حمال سلیمانی شودبحر با موسی سخن دانی شود
The wind became Solomon's porter; the sea became one who knew speech with Moses.
ماه با احمد اشارت بین شودنار ابراهیم را نسرین شود
The moon became one who saw Ahmad's sign; fire became a bed of eglantine for Abraham.
خاک قارون را چو ماری درکشداستن حنانه آید در رشد
The earth drew Korah in like a snake; the moaning pillar came to growth.
سنگ بر احمد سلامی می کندکوه یحیی را پیامی می کند
A stone salutes Ahmad; a mountain sends Yahya a message.
ما سمیعیم و بصیریم و خوشیمبا شما نامحرمان ما خامشیم
We are hearing and seeing and happy; with you outsiders we are silent.
چون شما سوی جمادی می رویدمحرم جان جمادان چون شوید؟
Since you go toward lifelessness, how will you become intimate with the souls of lifeless things?
از جمادی عالم جانها رویدغلغل اجزای عالم بشنوید
Go from lifelessness to the world of souls; hear the clamor of the world's particles.
فاش تسبیح جمادات آیدتوسوسه ی تاویلها نربایدت
The glorification of inanimate things will become manifest to you; the whisper of interpretations will not rob you.
چون ندارد جان تو قندیل هابهر بینش کرده ای تاویل ها
Because your soul lacks lamps, you have made interpretations for the sake of seeing, saying: “When could the intended glorification be outward?
که غرض تسبیح ظاهر کی بوددعوی دیدن خیال غی بود
The claim of seeing is a fantasy of error.”
بلک مر بیننده را دیدار آنوقت عبرت می کند تسبیح خوان
Rather, for the seer, the vision of it at the moment of admonition makes him recite glorification.
پس چو از تسبیح یادت می دهدآن دلالت همچو گفتن می بود
So when it reminds you of glorification, that indication is like speaking.
این بود تاویل اهل اعتزالو آن آنکس کو ندارد نور حال
This is the interpretation of the people of i'tizal, and of one who lacks the light of spiritual state.
چون ز حس بیرون نیامد آدمیباشد از تصویر غیبی اعجمی
Since man has not gone beyond sense, he is a foreigner to unseen forms.
این سخن پایان ندارد مارگیرمی کشید آن مار را با صد زحیر
This discourse has no end; the snake-catcher was dragging the snake with a hundred groans until he came to Baghdad, that seeker of spectacle, to set up a show at the crossroads.
تا به بغداد آمد آن هنگامه جوتا نهد هنگامه ای بر چارسو
The man set up a show on the riverbank; an uproar fell through Baghdad.
بر لب شط مرد هنگامه نهادغلغله در شهر بغداد اوفتاد
“A snake-catcher has brought a dragon; he has made a wondrous, rare catch.”
مارگیری اژدها آورده استبوالعجب نادر شکاری کرده است
Hundreds of thousands of raw-bearded fools gathered, made his prey, as he was, by their foolishness.
جمع آمد صد هزاران خام ریشصید او گشته چو او از ابلهیش
They waited, and he too waited, until the scattered people gathered.
منتظر ایشان و هم او منتظرتا که جمع آیند خلق منتشر
The larger the show-crowd became, the better the begging and distribution would go.
مردم هنگامه افزون تر شودکدیه و توزیع نیکوتر رود
Hundreds of thousands of babblers gathered, making a ring, foot behind foot.
جمع آمد صد هزاران ژاژخاحلقه کرده پشت پا بر پشت پا
In the crowd no man had news of woman; common and elite were pressed together like resurrection.
مرد را از زن خبر نه ز ازدحامرفته درهم چون قیامت خاص و عام
While he kept shaking the brazier, the show people craned their necks.
چون همی حراقه جنبانید اومی کشیدند اهل هنگامه گلو
And the dragon, numbed by bitter cold, was under a hundred kinds of felt and covering.
و اژدها کز زمهریر افسرده بودزیر صد گونه پلاس و پرده بود
He had bound it with thick ropes; that cautious man had taken precautions.
بسته بودش با رسن های غلیظاحتیاطی کرده بودش آن حفیظ
During the delay of waiting and circumstance, the sun of Iraq shone on the snake.
در درنگ انتظار و اتفاقتافت بر آن مار خورشید عراق
The warm-climed sun warmed it; the cold humors left its limbs.
آفتاب گرمسیر ش گرم کردرفت از اعضای او اخلاط سرد
It had seemed dead and became alive, astonishingly; the dragon beg

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