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بخش ۸۴ - قصهٔ بازرگان کی طوطی محبوس او، او را پیغام داد به طوطیان هندوستان هنگام رفتن به تجارت

The story of the merchant whose caged parrot gave a message to the parrots of Hindustan when he went on a journey

  1. M1:1553 بود بازرگان و او را طوطییدر قفس محبوس زیبا طوطیی There once was a merchant who possessed a parrot,A beautiful parrot, held captive in a cage.This couplet introduces the main characters and the central conflict of the story: a merchant owns a beautiful parrot that is trapped in a cage.
  2. M1:1554 چونک بازرگان سفر را ساز کردسوی هندستان شدن آغاز کرد When the merchant made ready for his journey,He began his long trek toward Hindustan.The merchant prepared for a business trip and set out on his way to India, the native land of his caged parrot.
  3. M1:1555 هر غلام و هر کنیزک را ز جودگفت بهر تو چه آرم گوی زود To every servant, man and maid, with generous grace,He asked, “What shall I bring for you from that far place?”Out of generosity, the merchant preparing for his trip to India asked each of his servants what gift they would like him to bring back for them.
  4. M1:1556 هر یکی از وی مرادی خواست کردجمله را وعده بداد آن نیک مرد Each one of them stated a heart's desire,and to them all that good man gave his word.Every person in the merchant's household asked him for a specific gift from his travels, and the kind man promised to fulfill all their requests.
  5. M1:1557 گفت طوطی را چه خواهی ارمغانکارمت از خطهٔ هندوستان He turned to his parrot: “And what gift would you have,that I should bring for you from the land of Hindustan?”The merchant, having asked his human servants what gifts they want from his trip, now asks his caged parrot the same question.
  6. M1:1558 گفتش آن طوطی که آنجا طوطیانچون ببینی کن ز حال من بیان The parrot told him, “When you see the parrots there,make a full accounting of my state.”The caged parrot asks its owner, the merchant, to find the free parrots in India and simply describe to them the condition of its captivity.
  7. M1:1559 کان فلان طوطی که مشتاق شماستاز قضای آسمان در حبس ماست Say: ‘That certain parrot who so longs for youIs, by heaven’s decree, now imprisoned by us.’The caged parrot asks its owner to tell the free parrots in India that it is trapped by fate and misses them terribly.
  8. M1:1560 بر شما کرد او سلام و داد خواستوز شما چاره و ره ارشاد خواست He sends his greetings to you and asks for justice,and from you he seeks a remedy, a path of guidance.The caged parrot's message to its free kin is a formal plea for help, asking them for both a solution to its captivity and spiritual guidance on how to endure it.
  9. M1:1561 گفت می‌شاید که من در اشتیاقجان دهم اینجا بمیرم در فراق Say: ‘It may be that I, in this burning شوق,will give up my soul here, and die in our فراق.’The caged parrot asks the merchant to tell the free parrots of India that it is on the verge of dying from the intense longing and separation it feels.
  10. M1:1562 این روا باشد که من در بند سختگه شما بر سبزه گاهی بر درخت Is it right that I remain in this harsh cage,While you alight on green grass, or a branch upon a stage?The caged parrot asks its free brethren in India if it is fair that it suffers in captivity while they enjoy their freedom in nature.
  11. M1:1563 این چنین باشد وفای دوستانمن درین حبس و شما در گلستان Is this, then, the loyalty of friends?I, in this prison, while you are in the rose-garden.The caged parrot sends a message to its free brethren, questioning how they can enjoy their freedom while it remains trapped and alone.
  12. M1:1564 یاد آرید ای مهان زین مرغِ زاریک صبوحی در میان مرغزار O great ones, remember this lamenting birdwith a morning toast amidst the meadow's green.The caged parrot asks the free parrots in India to remember their imprisoned friend by drinking a morning cup of wine for him while they enjoy their freedom in the meadows.
  13. M1:1565 یاد یاران یار را میمون بودخاصه کان لیلی و این مجنون بود For a lover, the memory of friends is a blessing,especially when they are Layli, and he is Majnun.This couplet states that being remembered by one's beloved friends is always a blessing, but it becomes an absolute, sacred necessity when the bond is as intense as that between the legendary lovers, Layli and Majnun.
  14. M1:1566 ای حریفانِ بت موزون خودمن قدحها می‌خورم پر خون خود O companions of my shapely idol,I drink down goblets filled with my own blood.The caged parrot, addressing the free companions of its beloved, declares that while they enjoy union, it is left to consume its own profound suffering. This reflects the soul's deep anguish when separated from its divine origin. ❋
  15. M1:1567 یک قدح می‌ نوش کن بر یاد منگر نمی‌خواهی که بدهی داد من Drink a single cup of wine in my memory,if you have no desire to grant me my due.The caged parrot asks its free friends to at least toast to its memory, if they are unwilling or unable to help it achieve justice and freedom.
  16. M1:1568 یا به یاد این فتادهٔ خاک‌بیزچونک خوردی جرعه‌ای بر خاک ریز Or in memory of this one, fallen and sifting dust,When you have drunk a sip, pour a drop upon the earth.The caged parrot asks its free friends that, when they enjoy a drink, they should remember their suffering companion by pouring a libation on the ground in its name.
  17. M1:1569 ای عجب آن عهد و آن سوگند کووعده‌های آن لب چون قند کو Oh, what wonder! Where is that covenant, that oath?Where are the promises from that sugar-sweet mouth?This is a lament, steeped in regret, for a forgotten covenant of reunion and for the sweet promises of the Beloved, which now seem lost to memory. ❋
  18. M1:1570 گر فراق بنده از بدبندگی‌ستچون تو با بد، بد کنی پس فرق چیست؟ If this servant’s estrangement is from my own poor service,when You repay bad with bad, what difference then exists?This verse poses a bold question to God: if a person's distance from You is due to their own sin, how can You, in Your perfection, respond by punishing them, which would be like meeting bad with bad? ❋
  19. M1:1571 ای بدی که تو کنی در خشم و جنگبا طرب‌تر از سماع و بانگ چنگ O the harshness You inflict in wrath and war,is more ecstatic than the samāʿ and the harp's song.The cruelty and anger shown by the Beloved are, for the true lover, more delightful and exhilarating than any worldly music or pleasure. ❋
  20. M1:1572 ای جفای تو ز دولت خوب‌ترو انتقام تو ز جان محبوب‌تر O You, whose cruelty is better than all fortune,And whose vengeance is more beloved than my soul.This couplet expresses the pinnacle of mystical love, where the Beloved's harshness and severity are actively preferred over worldly comfort and even life itself. ❋
  21. M1:1573 نار تو اینست نورت چون بودماتم این، تا خود که سورت چون بود If Your fire is this, then what must Your light be?If this is Your mourning, what must Your festival be?If the Beloved's severity and wrath are this captivating, then Their grace and joy must be unimaginably overwhelming. ❋
  22. M1:1574 از حلاوتها که دارد جور تووز لطافت کس نیابد غور تو From all the sweetness that Your tyranny holds,And from Your grace, no one can plumb Your depths.The Beloved's perceived harshness is filled with such sweetness, and Its underlying grace is so subtle, that no one can possibly comprehend Its true nature. ❋
  23. M1:1575 نالم و ترسم که او باور کندوز کرم آن جور را کمتر کند I wail, and yet I fear that He might believe it,And out of kindness, lessen that cruelty.The lover, intensely devoted to the Beloved's harshness, fears that his cries of pain might be taken seriously, causing the Beloved to mercifully reduce a severity in which the lover actually finds a taste of divine attention. ❋
  24. M1:1576 عاشقم بر قهر و بر لطفش بجدبوالعجب من عاشق این هر دو ضد I am in love with His wrath and His grace, in earnest;How wondrous, that I love these two opposites.The true lover is equally devoted to both the harshness and the kindness of the Beloved, because both are seen as expressions of the same divine source. ❋
  25. M1:1577 والله ار زین خار در بستان شومهمچو بلبل زین سبب نالان شوم By God, if I were to leave this thorn for the garden,I would lament like a nightingale for that very reason.The true lover of God finds such sweetness in divine severity that being moved from it to a state of ease would become a new source of sorrow.
  26. M1:1578 این عجب بلبل که بگشاید دهانتا خورد او خار را با گلستان What a wondrous nightingale, that opens its beakto devour the thorn along with the rose garden.The true lover of God is a strange and wondrous being, embracing both the pain (the thorn) and the pleasure (the rose garden) that come from the Beloved.
  27. M1:1579 این چه بلبل این نهنگ آتشیستجمله ناخوشها ز عشق او را خوشیست What nightingale is this? It is a whale of fire;for whom, through love, all sorrows are a source of joy.For the ardent and passionate lover, the power of love transmutes all pains and displeasures into joy and delight. ❋
  28. M1:1580 عاشق کلست و خود کلست اوعاشق خویشست و عشق خویش‌جو The lover is the Whole, and is the Whole Itself;a lover of the Self, a seeker of its own love.The true lover of God becomes one with the divine Whole, so that their love is ultimately God loving Godself through the medium of the lover.
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