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بخش ۱۸ - بیان حسد وزیر
Describing the vizier's envy
- M1:442 آن وزیرک از حسد بودش نژادتا به باطل گوش و بینی باد داد That wretched vizier, whose very stock was envy,Cast his own ear and nose to the wind for a futile cause.The vizier's entire being was rooted in envy, which led him to sacrifice his own spiritual faculties for a worthless and destructive goal.
- M1:443 بر امید آنکِ از نیش حسدزهر او در جان مسکینان رسد Hoping that the sting of his envywould drive its venom into the souls of the helpless.The vizier mutilated himself with the malicious hope that this act, born of envy, would poison and destroy the community of innocent Christians he was targeting.
- M1:444 هر کسی کو از حسد بینی کندخویش را بیگوش و بی بینی کند Whoever, from envy, makes a nose for himself,Deprives himself of both ear and nose.This couplet asserts that someone who acts out of envy, trying to find fault or 'make a nose' (a flaw) in others, ultimately harms their own spiritual senses, losing both the ability to discern truth and to perceive subtle spiritual realities.
- M1:445 بینی آن باشد که او بویی بَردبوی او را جانب کویی بَرد A nose is that which can perceive a scent,A scent that leads one toward a certain lane.A true spiritual faculty is not one that merely senses a divine reality, but one that is actively drawn by that perception toward its source.
- M1:446 هر که بویش نیست بی بینی بودبوی آن بویست کان دینی بود Whoever lacks this scent is truly without a nose;the only scent is that which comes from faith.A person who cannot perceive spiritual truth is functionally sense-deprived, because the only perception that truly matters is the one rooted in faith.
- M1:447 چونک بویی بُرد و شکر آن نکردکفر نعمت آمد و بینیش خورد Since he caught a scent and offered no thanks for it,ingratitude came and devoured his nose.When someone receives a spiritual insight but fails to be grateful, that very ingratitude destroys their ability to perceive such truths in the future.
- M1:448 شکر کن مر شاکران را بنده باشپیش ایشان مُرده شو پاینده باش Give thanks; be a servant to the truly thankful.In their presence, become as one dead and find eternal life.The path to spiritual life is through gratitude and complete surrender to those who embody it, which means dying to your own envious self.
- M1:449 چون وزیر از رهزنی مایه مسازخلق را تو بر میاور از نماز Like that vizier, do not profit from banditry;do not turn God's creatures away from their prayer.This couplet warns the reader not to emulate the envious vizier, whose piety is a mask for his destructive agenda of leading people astray from true worship.
- M1:450 ناصح دین گشته آن کافر وزیرکرده او از مکر در گوزینه سیر That infidel vizier became a counselor of faith,making his journey, through cunning, inside a walnut sweet.The vizier, an unbeliever at heart, has put on the disguise of a religious guide, but his spiritual 'progress' is just a deceptive game played within the confines of his own trickery.