English    Türkçe    فارسی   

5
3832-3856

  • یک کنیزک دارد او اندر کنار  ** که به عالم نیست مانندش نگار 
  • He holds in his arms a girl like whom there is no (other) beauty in the world.

  • در بیان ناید که حسنش بی‌حدست  ** نقش او اینست که اندر کاغذست 
  • She does not admit of description, for her loveliness is beyond (all) limits: here is her portrait on paper.”

  • نقش در کاغذ چو دید آن کیقباد  ** خیره گشت و جام از دستش فتاد 
  • When the Emperor saw the portrait on the paper, he became distraught and the cup dropped from his hand.

  • پهلوانی را فرستاد آن زمان  ** سوی موصل با سپاه بس گران  3835
  • Immediately he despatched to Mawsil a captain with a very mighty army,

  • که اگر ندهد به تو آن ماه را  ** برکن از بن آن در و درگاه را 
  • Saying, “If he will not give up that moon (beauty) to thee, rase his court and palace to the ground;

  • ور دهد ترکش کن و مه را بیار  ** تا کشم من بر زمین مه در کنار 
  • But if he give her up, leave him alone and bring the moon (hither), that on the earth I may embrace the moon.”

  • پهلوان شد سوی موصل با حشم  ** با هزاران رستم و طبل و علم 
  • The captain set out towards Mawsil with his retinue and with thousands of heroes and drums and banners.

  • چون ملخها بی‌عدد بر گرد کشت  ** قاصد اهلاک اهل شهر گشت 
  • (With an army) like innumerable locusts (gathered) round the crops, he resolved to destroy the inhabitants of the city.

  • هر نواحی منجنیقی از نبرد  ** هم‌چو کوه قاف او بر کار کرد  3840
  • On every side he brought into hostile action a mangonel (ballista) like Mount Qáf.

  • زخم تیر و سنگهای منجنیق  ** تیغها در گرد چون برق از بریق 
  • Wounds (were inflicted) by arrows and by stones from the mangonel; swords (flashed) amidst the dust, like lightning from a lightning-cloud.

  • هفته‌ای کرد این چنین خون‌ریز گرم  ** برج سنگین سست شد چون موم نرم 
  • During a (whole) week he wrought such carnage in hot fight: stone towers became unsteady as soft wax.

  • شاه موصل دید پیگار مهول  ** پس فرستاد از درون پیشش رسول 
  • The King of Mawsil saw the terrible combat: then (at last) he sent an envoy from within (the city) to him (the captain),

  • که چه می‌خواهی ز خون مؤمنان  ** کشته می‌گردند زین حرب گران 
  • To say, “What do you wish (to obtain) by shedding the blood of true believers? They are being killed in this grievous war.

  • گر مرادت ملک شهر موصلست  ** بی‌چنین خون‌ریز اینت حاصلست  3845
  • If your object is to gain possession of the city of Mawsil, look now, it is achieved without (any more) bloodshed like this.

  • من روم بیرون شهر اینک در آ  ** تا نگیرد خون مظلومان ترا 
  • I will go forth from the city: here it is for you, enter in, lest the blood of the oppressed lay hold of you (and demand vengeance);

  • ور مرادت مال و زر و گوهرست  ** این ز ملک شهر خود آسان‌ترست 
  • And if your object is riches and gold and jewels, this is even more easy than to take possession of the city.”

  • ایثار کردن صاحب موصل آن کنیزک را بدین خلیفه تا خون‌ریز مسلمانان بیشتر نشود 
  • How the lord of Mawsil surrendered the girl to the Caliph in order that there might be no more shedding of Moslem blood.

  • چون رسول آمد به پیش پهلوان  ** داد کاغذ اندرو نقش و نشان 
  • When the envoy came to the captain, he (the captain) gave him the paper on which the features (of the girl) were depicted,

  • بنگر اندر کاغذ این را طالبم  ** هین بده ورنه کنون من غالبم 
  • (Saying), “Look on the paper: this (is what) I require. Hark, give (her up), or else (I will take her by force, for) I am the conqueror.”

  • چون رسول آمد بگفت آن شاه نر  ** صورتی کم گیر زود این را ببر  3850
  • On the return of the envoy, that manly King said, “Take no account of a (mere) form, lead her away at once.

  • من نیم در عهد ایمان بت‌پرست  ** بت بر آن بت‌پرست اولیترست 
  • I am not an idolater in the epoch of the true Faith: ’tis more fit that the idol should be in the hands of the idolater.”

  • چونک آوردش رسول آن پهلوان  ** گشت عاشق بر جمالش آن زمان 
  • When the envoy brought her (to him), the captain straightway fell in love with her beauty.

  • عشق بحری آسمان بر وی کفی  ** چون زلیخا در هوای یوسفی 
  • Love is an (infinite) ocean, on which the heavens are (but) a flake of foam: (they are distraught) like Zalíkhá in desire for a Joseph.

  • دور گردونها ز موج عشق دان  ** گر نبودی عشق بفسردی جهان 
  • Know that the wheeling heavens are turned by waves of Love: were it not for Love, the world would be frozen (inanimate).

  • کی جمادی محو گشتی در نبات  ** کی فدای روح گشتی نامیات  3855
  • How would an inorganic thing disappear (by change) into a plant? How would vegetive things sacrifice themselves to become (endowed with) spirit?

  • روح کی گشتی فدای آن دمی  ** کز نسیمش حامله شد مریمی 
  • How would the spirit sacrifice itself for the sake of that Breath by the waft whereof a Mary was made pregnant?