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2841-2890

  • یا به حال اولینان بنگرید ** یا سوی آخر بحزمی در پرید
  • Either consider what happened to the former (peoples), or fly with a (great) prudence towards the latter end.

  • حزم چه بود در دو تدبیر احتیاط ** از دو آن گیری که دورست از خباط
  • What is prudence? Precaution in (the case of) two (alternative) plans: of the two you will take that one which is far from craziness.

  • آن یکی گوید درین ره هفت روز ** نیست آب و هست ریگ پای‌سوز
  • One person may say, “On this road there is no water for seven days, and there is foot-scorching sand.”

  • آن دگر گوید دروغست این بران ** که بهر شب چشمه‌ای بینی روان
  • Another may say, “This is false: push on, for you will find a running fountain every night.”

  • حزم آن باشد که بر گیری تو آب ** تا رهی از ترس و باشی بر صواب 2845
  • It is prudence that you take water (with you), so that you may be saved from dread and may be on the right (side).

  • گر بود در راه آب این را بریز ** ور نباشد وای بر مرد ستیز
  • If there be water (on the road), spill this (water which you have taken with you); and if there be none, alas for the obstinate man!

  • ای خلیفه‌زادگان دادی کنید ** حزم بهر روز میعادی کنید
  • O children of the Vicegerent (Adam), deal justly: act with prudence for the sake of the Day of Tryst (Judgement).

  • آن عدوی کز پدرتان کین کشید ** سوی زندانش ز علیین کشید
  • That enemy who took vengeance upon your father and dragged him from ‘Illiyyín to prison,

  • آن شه شطرنج دل را مات کرد ** از بهشتش سخره‌ی آفات کرد
  • And checkmated that king of the spiritual chessboard and made him, (cast out) from Paradise, a thrall to calamities—

  • چند جا بندش گرفت اندر نبرد ** تا بکشتی در فکندش روی‌زرد 2850
  • How often in combat did he seize him by sleight, that he might wrestle with him and throw him (to the ground) in disgrace!

  • اینچنین کردست با آن پهلوان ** سست سستش منگرید ای دیگران
  • Thus hath he done to that paladin (Adam): do not regard him with contempt, O ye others!

  • مادر و بابای ما را آن حسود ** تاج و پیرایه بچالاکی ربود
  • That envious one nimbly snatched away our mother's and father's crown and ornament.

  • کردشان آنجا برهنه و زار و خوار ** سالها بگریست آدم زار زار
  • There he made them naked and wretched and despicable: (many) years did Adam weep bitterly,

  • که ز اشک چشم او رویید نبت ** که چرا اندر جریده‌ی لاست ثبت
  • So that (sweet) herbs grew from the tears of his eyes: (he wept, wondering) why he was inscribed in the scroll of lá (negation).

  • تو قیاسی گیر طراریش را ** که چنان سرور کند زو ریش را 2855
  • Judge thou of his (the Devil's) impudent cheatery from the fact that on account of him such a prince (as Adam) rends his beard (in sorrow).

  • الحذر ای گل‌پرستان از شرش ** تیغ لا حولی زنید اندر سرش
  • Beware, O clay-worshippers, of his malice: smite the sword of lá hawl on his head!

  • کو همی‌بیند شما را از کمین ** که شما او را نمی‌بینید هین
  • For he sees you from ambush, so that ye see him not. Take care!

  • دایما صیاد ریزد دانه‌ها ** دانه پیدا باشد و پنهان دغا
  • The fowler scatters grain incessantly: the grain is visible, but the deceit is hidden.

  • هر کجا دانه بدیدی الحذر ** تا نبندد دام بر تو بال و پر
  • Wherever you see the grain, beware, lest the trap confine your wings and pinions,

  • زانک مرغی کو بترک دانه کرد ** دانه از صحرای بی تزویر خورد 2860
  • Because the bird that takes leave of (relinquishes) the grain (bait), eats grain from the spacious field (of Reality) that is without imposture.

  • هم بدان قانع شد و از دام جست ** هیچ دامی پر و بالش را نبست
  • With that (grain) it is contented, and escapes the trap: no trap confines its wings and pinions.

  • وخامت کار آن مرغ کی ترک حزم کرد از حرص و هوا
  • The banefulness of the action of the bird that abandons prudence from (motives of) greed and vain desire.

  • باز مرغی فوق دیواری نشست ** دیده سوی دانه دامی ببست
  • Again, a bird settles on a wall and fastens its eyes upon the grain in a trap.

  • یک نظر او سوی صحرا می‌کند ** یک نظر حرصش به دانه می‌کشد
  • Now it looks towards the open country, (while) now its greed leads it to look at the grain.

  • این نظر با آن نظر چالیش کرد ** ناگهانی از خرد خالیش کرد
  • This look struggles with that look and suddenly makes it (the bird) empty of wisdom.

  • باز مرغی کان تردد را گذاشت ** زان نظر بر کند و بر صحرا گماشت 2865
  • Again, a bird that has abandoned that vacillation turns its gaze away from that (grain) and fixes it upon the open fields.

  • شاد پر و بال او بخا له ** تا امام جمله آزادان شد او
  • Glad (glistening) are its wings and pinions: how goodly it is, since it has become the leader of all the free.

  • هر که او را مقتدا سازد برست ** در مقام امن و آزادی نشست
  • Every one who makes it his model is saved and sits in the abode of security and freedom,

  • زانک شاه حازمان آمد دلش ** تا گلستان و چمن شد منزلش
  • Because his heart has become the king of the prudent, so that the rosery and garden (of Paradise) has become his dwelling-place.

  • حزم ازو راضی و او راضی ز حزم ** این چنین کن گر کنی تدبیر و عزم
  • Prudence is pleased with him, and he pleased with Prudence: do likewise, if you would act with foresight and resolution.

  • بارها در دام حرص افتاده‌ای ** حلق خود را در بریدن داده‌ای 2870
  • Many a time have you fallen into the snare of greed and given up your throat to be cut;

  • بازت آن تواب لطف آزاد کرد ** توبه پذرفت و شما را شاد کرد
  • Again He that graciously disposes (hearts) to repentance hath set you free and accepted your repentance and made you glad.

  • گفت ان عدتم کذا عدنا کذا ** نحن زوجنا الفعال بالجزا
  • He hath said, “If ye return thus, We will return thus: We have wedded the actions to the retribution.

  • چونک جفتی را بر خود آورم ** آید آن را جفتش دوانه لاجرم
  • When I bring one mate to Myself, the other mate inevitably comes running (after it).

  • جفت کردیم این عمل را با اثر ** چون رسد جفتی رسد جفتی دگر
  • We have mated this action with the effect: when one mate arrives, another mate arrives.”

  • چون رباید غارتی از جفت شوی ** جفت می‌آید پس او شوی‌جوی 2875
  • When a raider carries off the husband from the wife, the wife comes after him, seeking her husband.

  • بار دیگر سوی این دام آمدیت ** خاک اندر دیده‌ی توبه زدیت
  • Once more ye have come towards this snare and have thrown dust in the eyes of repentance.

  • بازتان تواب بگشاد از گره ** گفت هین بگریز روی این سو منه
  • Again that Forgiving One hath loosed that knot for you and hath said, “Beware! Flee! Set not your face in this direction!”

  • باز چون پروانه‌ی نسیان رسید ** جانتان را جانب آتش کشید
  • Again, when the mandate of forgetfulness arrived, it drew your soul towards the Fire.

  • کم کن ای پروانه نسیان و شکی ** در پر سوزیده بنگر تو یکی
  • O you moth, do not show any forgetfulness and doubt: look once at your burnt wing!

  • چون رهیدی شکر آن باشد که هیچ ** سوی آن دانه نداری پیچ پیچ 2880
  • Since you are saved, the thanksgiving is this, that you should have no inclination towards that grain,

  • تا ترا چون شکر گویی بخشد او ** روزیی بی دام و بی خوف عدو
  • In order that, when you say thanks, He may bestow on you the daily bread that is without snare and without fear of the enemy.

  • شکر آن نعمت که‌تان آزاد کرد ** نعمت حق را بباید یاد کرد
  • In thanksgiving for the bounty shown in setting you free, it behoves you to commemorate the bounty of God.

  • چند اندر رنجها و در بلا ** گفتی از دامم رها ده ای خدا
  • How oft in sorrows and in tribulation have you cried, “O God, deliver me from the snare,

  • تا چنین خدمت کنم احسان کنم ** خاک اندر دیده‌ی شیطان زنم
  • That I may do suchlike service (to Thee) and practise beneficence and throw dust in the eyes of the Devil!”

  • حکایت نذر کردن سگان هر زمستان کی این تابستان چون بیاید خانه سازیم از بهر زمستان را
  • Story of the vow made by the dogs every winter that when next summer comes they will build a house for the winter.

  • سگ زمستان جمع گردد استخوانش ** زخم سرما خرد گرداند چنانش 2885
  • In winter the bones of the dog are drawn together: the blows of the frost make him so small

  • کو بگوید کین قدر تن که منم ** خانه‌ای از سنگ باید کردنم
  • That he says, “Having such a little body, I must build a stone house.

  • چونک تابستان بیاید من بچنگ ** بهر سرما خانه‌ای سازم ز سنگ
  • When summer comes, I will build with my claws a stone house against the cold.”

  • چونک تابستان بیاید از گشاد ** استخوانها پهن گردد پوست شاد
  • (But) when summer comes, his bones expand from the relief (which he feels), and his skin grows sleek,

  • گوید او چون زفت بیند خویش را ** در کدامین خانه گنجم ای کیا
  • And, when he sees himself stout, he says, “In what house should I find room, O noble sir?”

  • زفت گردد پا کشد در سایه‌ای ** کاهلی سیری غری خودرایه‌ای 2890
  • He grows stout and slinks into a shady place—a lazy, full-fed, cowardly, self-opinionated (creature)!