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1993-2042

  • There was a blind man who used to say, “Pity! I have two blindnesses, O people of the time.
  • بود کوری کاو همی‏گفت الامان ** من دو کوری دارم ای اهل زمان‏

  • Therefore, hark ye, show unto me twice as much compassion, since I have two blindnesses, and I (live) between (them.)”
  • پس دو باره رحمتم آرید هان ** چون دو کوری دارم و من در میان‏

  • (Somebody) said, “We see one blindness of yours: what may the other blindness be? Explain.” 1995
  • گفت یک کوریت می‏بینیم ما ** آن دگر کوری چه باشد وانما

  • He answered, “I have an ugly voice and unpleasing tones: ugliness of voice and blindness are double (blindness).
  • گفت زشت آوازم و ناخوش نوا ** زشت آوازی و کوری شد دوتا

  • My ugly cry becomes the source of annoyance: the people's love is lessened by my cry.
  • بانگ زشتم مایه‏ی غم می‏شود ** مهر خلق از بانگ من کم می‏شود

  • Whithersoever my ugly voice goes, it becomes the source of anger and annoyance and hatred.
  • زشت آوازم به هر جا که رود ** مایه‏ی خشم و غم و کین می‏شود

  • Double your compassion for (these) two blindnesses: make room (in your hearts) for one who gets so little room.”
  • بر دو کوری رحم را دوتا کنید ** این چنین ناگنج را گنجا کنید

  • The ugliness of (his) voice was diminished by this plaint: the people became of one mind in (showing) compassion for him. 2000
  • زشتی آواز کم شد زین گله ** خلق شد بر وی به رحمت یک دله‏

  • When he had told the secret (and explained his meaning), his voice was made beautiful by the graciousness of the voice of his heart;
  • کرد نیکو چون بگفت او راز را ** لطف آواز دلش آواز را

  • But that one whose heart's voice also is bad—(for him) those three blindnesses are banishment everlasting (from the favour of God);
  • و انکه آواز دلش هم بد بود ** آن سه کوری دوری سرمد بود

  • Yet it may be that the bounteous (saints), who give without cause, will lay a hand (of blessing) upon his ugly head.
  • لیک وهابان که بی‏علت دهند ** بو که دستی بر سر زشتش نهند

  • Since his (the blind beggar's) voice became sweet and pitiable, the hearts of the stony-hearted were made (soft) as wax thereby.
  • چون که آوازش خوش و مظلوم شد ** زو دل سنگین دلان چون موم شد

  • Inasmuch as the infidel's lament is ugly and (like) braying, for that (reason) it meets with no (favourable) response. 2005
  • ناله‏ی کافر چو زشت است و شهیق ** ز آن نمی‏گردد اجابت را رفیق‏

  • “Be silent” has come down (has been revealed in the Qur’án) against the ugly-voiced (infidel), for he was drunken with the people's blood, like a dog.
  • اخسؤا بر زشت آواز آمده ست ** کاو ز خون خلق چون سگ بود مست‏

  • Inasmuch as the lament of the bear attracts compassion, (while) your lament is not like this, (but) is unpleasing,
  • چون که ناله‏ی خرس رحمت کش بود ** ناله‏ات نبود چنین ناخوش بود

  • Know that you have behaved with wolfishness to (a) Joseph, or have drunk of the blood of an innocent.
  • دان که با یوسف تو گرگی کرده‏ای ** یا ز خون بی‏گناهی خورده‏ای‏

  • Repent, and empty yourself of what you have drunk; and if your wound is old (and unhealed), go, cauterise (it).
  • توبه کن و ز خورده استفراغ کن ** ور جراحت کهنه شد رو داغ کن‏

  • Continuation of the story of the bear and of the fool who had put trust in its good faith.
  • تتمه‏ی حکایت خرس و آن ابله که بر وفای او اعتماد کرده بود

  • The bear, too, when it was delivered from the dragon and received such kindness from that brave man— 2010
  • خرس هم از اژدها چون وارهید ** و آن کرم ز آن مرد مردانه بدید

  • Like the dog of the Men of the Cave, that poor bear became an attendant at the heels of him that bore the burden (of the fight with the dragon).
  • چون سگ اصحاب کهف آن خرس زار ** شد ملازم در پی آن بردبار

  • That Moslem, from fatigue, laid down his head (to rest); the bear, from devotion (to him), became (his) guard.
  • آن مسلمان سر نهاد از خستگی ** خرس حارس گشت از دل بستگی‏

  • A certain man passed by and said to him, “What has happened? O brother, who is this bear (in relation) to you?”
  • آن یکی بگذشت و گفتش حال چیست ** ای برادر مر ترا این خرس کیست‏

  • He recounted the adventure, and the story of the dragon. The other said, “Do not set your heart on a bear, O fool!
  • قصه واگفت و حدیث اژدها ** گفت بر خرسی منه دل ابلها

  • The friendship of a fool is worse than (his) enmity: it (the bear) ought to be driven away by every means you know.” 2015
  • دوستی ابله بتر از دشمنی است ** او بهر حیله که دانی راندنی است‏

  • He (the man with the bear) said (to himself), “By God, he has said this from envy; otherwise,” (he said aloud), “why do you look at the bearishness (of the bear)? Behold this affection (which it has for me)!”
  • گفت و الله از حسودی گفت این ** ور نه خرسی چه نگری این مهر بین‏

  • “The affection of fools,” said the other, “is beguiling; this envy of mine is better than its (the bear's) affection.
  • گفت مهر ابلهان عشوه‏ده است ** این حسودی من از مهرش به است‏

  • Hey, come with me and drive away this bear: do not choose the bear (as your friend), do not forsake one of your own kind!”
  • هی بیا با من بران این خرس را ** خرس را مگزین مهل هم جنس را

  • “Go, go,” said he, “mind your own business, O envious man!” Said the other, “This was my business, and it was not your fortune (to follow my advice).
  • گفت رو رو کار خود کن ای حسود ** گفت کارم این بد و رزقت نبود

  • I am not less than a bear, O noble sir: abandon it, in order that I may be your comrade. 2020
  • من کم از خرسی نباشم ای شریف ** ترک او کن تا منت باشم حریف‏

  • My heart is trembling with anxiety for you: do not go into a forest with a bear like this.
  • بر تو دل می‏لرزدم ز اندیشه‏ای ** با چنین خرسی مرو در بیشه‏ای‏

  • This heart of mine has never trembled in vain; this is the Light of God, not pretence or idle brag.
  • این دلم هرگز نلرزید از گزاف ** نور حق است این نه دعوی و نه لاف‏

  • I am the true believer who has become seeing by the Light of God. Beware and beware! Flee from this fire-temple!”
  • مومنم ینظر بنور الله شده ** هان و هان بگریز از این آتشکده‏

  • He said all this, and it entered not his ear: suspicion is a thick barrier to a man.
  • این همه گفت و به گوشش در نرفت ** بد گمانی مرد را سدی است زفت‏

  • He took his hand, and he (the man with the bear) withdrew his hand from him. The other said, “I will go, since you are not a well-guided friend.” 2025
  • دست او بگرفت و دست از وی کشید ** گفت رفتم چون نه‏ای یار رشید

  • “Go,” cried he; “be not troubled for me; don't carve (retail) so much wisdom, O meddlesome one!”
  • گفت رو بر من تو غم خواره مباش ** بو الفضولا معرفت کمتر تراش‏

  • He answered him, (saying), “I am not your enemy: it would be a kindness if you would come after me.”
  • باز گفتش من عدوی تو نی‏ام ** لطف باشد گر بیایی در پی‏ام‏

  • “I am sleepy,” said he; “let me alone, go!” He replied, “Pray, give in to your friend,
  • گفت خوابستم مرا بگذار و رو ** گفت آخر یار را منقاد شو

  • So that you may sleep under the safeguard of a sage, under the protection of one loved (by God), a man of heart (spiritual insight).”
  • تا بخسبی در پناه عاقلی ** در جوار دوستی صاحب دلی‏

  • The man was thrown by his (the other's) earnestness into a (groundless) fancy: he became angry and quickly averted his face, 2030
  • در خیال افتاد مرد از جد او ** خشمگین شد زود گردانید رو

  • Thinking, “Mayhap this man has come to attack me—he is a murderer; or he has hope (of gain)—he is a beggar and a tout;
  • کاین مگر قصد من آمد خونی است ** یا طمع دارد گدا و تونی است‏

  • Or he has wagered with his friends that he will make me afraid of this companion.”
  • یا گرو بسته ست با یاران بدین ** که بترساند مرا زین هم نشین‏

  • From the wickedness of his heart, not (even) one good surmise came into his thoughts at all.
  • خود نیامد هیچ از خبث سرش ** یک گمان نیک اندر خاطرش‏

  • His good opinions were wholly for the bear: to be sure, he was of the same kind as the bear.
  • ظن نیکش جملگی بر خرس بود ** او مگر مر خرس را هم جنس بود

  • Through currishness, he suspected a sage and deemed a bear affectionate and just. 2035
  • عاقلی را از سگی تهمت نهاد ** خرس را دانست اهل مهر و داد

  • How Moses, on whom be peace, said to one who worshipped the (golden) calf, “Where is (what has become of) thy vain scepticism and precaution?”
  • گفتن موسی علیه السلام گوساله پرست را که آن خیال اندیشی و حزم تو کجاست‏

  • Moses said to one drunken with (deluding) fancy, “O thou who thinkest evil because of (thy) unblessedness and perdition,
  • گفت موسی با یکی مست خیال ** کای بد اندیش از شقاوت وز ضلال‏

  • Thou hast had a hundred suspicions concerning my prophethood, notwithstanding these proofs and this noble nature (which I have shown).
  • صد گمانت بود در پیغمبریم ** با چنین برهان و این خلق کریم‏

  • Thou hast seen from me hundreds of thousands of miracles, (and all the time) a hundred fancies and doubts and (vain) opinions were growing in thee.
  • صد هزاران معجزه دیدی ز من ** صد خیالت می‏فزود و شک و ظن‏

  • Thou wert sorely pressed by fancy and devilish suggestion, thou wert sneering at my prophethood.
  • از خیال و وسوسه تنگ آمدی ** طعن بر پیغمبری‏ام می‏زدی‏

  • I raised up dust from the sea before your eyes, so that ye might be delivered from the wickedness of the people of Pharaoh. 2040
  • گرد از دریا بر آوردم عیان ** تا رهیدیت از شر فرعونیان‏

  • During forty years the platter and tray (of food) came (to you) from heaven, and at my prayer the river ran from a rock.
  • ز آسمان چل سال کاسه و خوان رسید ** وز دعایم جویی از سنگی دوید

  • These (miracles) and a hundred times as many, and all these diverse (evidences), did not make that vain imagination fade away from thee, O cold (hard-hearted) man!
  • این و صد چندین و چندین گرم و سرد ** از تو ای سرد آن توهم کم نکرد