Story ON PERSONS YOU MAY BACKBITE گفتار اندر کسانی که غیبت ایشان روا باشد
Story on Persons You May Backbite (گفتار اندر کسانی که غیبت ایشان روا باشد) 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
| Three persons, Fve heard, you may justly backbite; When these you’ve exceeded, the fourth is not right | سه کس را شنیدم که غیبت رواست وز این درگذشتی چهارم خطاست |
| The first is a king, to oppression inclined, Through whom you see ruin on ev’ry one’s mind; | یکی پادشاهی ملامت پسند کز او بر دل خلق بینی گزند |
| It is lawful to mention the news ev’rywhere, That respecting him, people may exercise care. | حلال است از او نقل کردن خبر مگر خلق باشند از او بر حذر |
| Next; a veil on a wretch, void of shame, do not weave! For with his own fingers his screen he will reave! | دوم پرده بر بی حیائی متن که خود می‌درد پرده بر خویشتن |
| In reviling him, brother, you sin not one whit! For headlong he tumbles, down into a pit! | ز حوضش مدار ای برادر نگاه که او می‌درافتد به گردن به چاه |
| Third; the teller of falsehoods who deals in false weight; Whatever you know of his wrong doings, state! | سوم کژ ترازوی ناراست خوی ز فعل بدش هرچه دانی بگوی |
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