Welcome, O Hoopoe
Attarعطار
مرحبا ای هدهد هادی شده
Welcome, O hoopoe, who have become a guide,
در حقیقت پیک هر وادی شده
who have become in truth the messenger of every valley!
ای به سرحد سبا سیر تو خوش
Sweet was your journey to the borders of Sheba;
با سلیمان منطق الطیر تو خوش
sweet your bird-speech with Solomon.
صاحب سر سلیمان آمدی
You came as the keeper of Solomon’s secret;
از تفاخر تاجور زان آمدی
for that pride you came wearing a crown.
دیو را در بند و زندان باز دار
Keep the demon in chains and in prison,
تا سلیمان را تو باشی رازدار
so that you may be Solomon’s confidant.
A note for readers
The first of the addresses to the birds in The Conference of the Birds, in which Attar greets each bird in turn before the story begins. The hoopoe, which in the Quran brings Solomon news of the Queen of Sheba, will be the birds’ guide on their journey, and its crest is the ‘crown’. The poem’s title, Mantiq al-Tayr, ‘the speech of the birds’, comes from a Quranic phrase used of Solomon.
More poemsشعرهای دیگر
یک عمر می‌توان سخن از زلف یار گفت
در بند آن مباش که مضمون نمانده است
One could speak for a lifetime of the beloved’s tresses;
do not fret that there are no themes left.
A Lifetime on the Beloved’s Tresses
بلبلی برگ گلی خوش رنگ در منقار داشت
و اندر آن برگ و نوا خوش ناله‌های زار داشت
A nightingale held in its beak a rose petal of lovely colour,
and with that petal and its song it made sweet, piteous laments.
A nightingale held a rose petal
ستاره ای بدرخشید و ماه مجلس شد
دل رمیده ما را رفیق و مونس شد
A star shone out and became the moon of the gathering,
became friend and companion to our startled heart.