Story on Preferring the Pain to the Cure for the Sake of the Friend (THE patient and the doctor) حکایت بیمار و طبیب
Story on Preferring the Pain to the Cure for the Sake of the Friend (THE Patient and the Doctor) (حکایت بیمار و طبیب) is from Chapter III, On Love (در عشق و مستی و شور) 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
| A doctor, sweet-faced, had in Merv his abode; Within the heart’s garden, he cypress-like showed. For the grief of hearts wounded by him, not a care; Of the hopes of those ailing through him, unaware. | طبیبی پری چهره در مرو بود که در باغ دل قامتش سرو بود نه از درد دلهای ریشش خبر نه از چشم بیمار خویشش خبر |
| A sufferer tells a good tale of his case —: “With the doctor my head was much pleased, for a space; To recover my health I had little desire, For the Doctor would, then, from attending, retire “. | حکایت کند دردمندی غریب که خوش بود چندی سرم با طبیب نمیخواستم تندرستی خویش که دیگر نیاید طبیبم به پیش |
| Many powerful in wisdom and valiant in hand, By the passion of love are brought under command When Passion gives Wisdom a box on the ear, Understanding can never again its head rear. | بسا عقل زورآور چیردست که سودای عشقش کند زیردست چو سودا خرد را بمالید گوش نیارد دگر سر برآورد هوش |
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