Story OF THE SUFI AND THE SLANDERER حکایت اندر نکوهش غمازی و مذلت غمازان
Story of the Sufi and the Slanderer (حکایت اندر نکوهش غمازی و مذلت غمازان) is from Chapter VII, On Training and Instruction (در عالم تربیت) of Saadi’s Bustan (بوستان, “The Orchard”), written in 1257. The Persian verses are given with a rhymed English translation, couplet by couplet.
Bustan Saadi بوستان سعدی
| Said a man to a Sufi, with sanctity blest, You know not what some one behind you expressed? He said, ” Silence! oh brother! and sleep it away! It is best not to know what your enemies say! ‘ | یکی گفت با صوفیی در صفا ندانی فلانت چه گفت از قفا؟ بگفتا خموش، ای برادر، بخفت ندانسته بهتر که دشمن چه گفت |
| Those people who carry the words of a foe, Than enemies, truly, more enmity show. The remarks of a foe, to a friend no one bears, Excepting the man who his enmity shares. | کسانی که پیغام دشمن برند ز دشمن همانا که دشمن ترند کسی قول دشمن نیارد به دوست جز آن کس که در دشمنی یار اوست |
| A foe cannot speak with such harshness to me, That from hearing, my body should shivering be! You are worse than a foe I with your lips you unfold The same that the foe to you privately told! “ | نیارست دشمن جفا گفتنم چنان کز شنیدن بلرزد تنم تو دشمنتری کاوری بر دهان که دشمن چنین گفت اندر نهان |
| A talebearer gives to old war a fresh life, And urges a good, gentle person to strife. Fly away from that comrade, while strength in you lies Who says unto sleeping sedition, “Arise!” | سخن چین کند تازه جنگ قدیم به خشم آورد نیکمرد سلیم ازان همنشین تا توانی گریز که مر فتنه خفته را گفت خیز |
| A man in a pit, with his feet firmly bound, Is better than spreading disturbance around. | سیه چال و مرد اندر او بسته پای به از فتنه از جای بردن به جای |
| Between two, an encounter resembles a fire, And the ill-omened tell-tale’s the fuel supplier. | میان دو تن جنگ چون آتش است سخنچین بدبخت هیزم کش است |
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