Leg over Leg. Ahmad Faris al-Shidyaq

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СКАЧАТЬ لها اكثر * فان الاحمق يلازم امراته ويظل محملقا فيها والعالم يحملق فى كراريسه * وكيفما كان فلم ارَ اسفه ممّن يحرّج على امراته ويلازمها * فان الرجل كلما اعنت المراة ونكنك عليها بالملازمة والكنكنة زادت هى فى تماديها فلا يردها شى عما ارادته سوى حشمتها وحيائها *

      “I said, ‘I wish I were red red red that you might love me, even if I were dumb dumb dumb.’ ‘And what good would love do you if you were dumb?’ she asked. ‘Any good would redound to my benefit, from your leaving me alone with “the red.”’¹⁰⁰ ‘Are you claiming,’ I asked, ‘that scholarship in men prevents women from carrying out what they have in mind to do, while stupidity makes it possible for them?’ ‘Certainly not,’ she replied. ‘In fact, a woman may get more out of stupidity, for the stupid husband stays close to his wife and never stops staring at her, while the scholar stares at his notebooks. Be that as it may, I know of nothing more idiotic than the man who keeps his wife on a tight leash and sticks close to her, for the more a man angers his wife and annoys her by staying next to her and never leaving the house, the more she will persist in her excesses, for nothing can keep her from doing what she wants to except her own sense of decency and her modesty.

      4.6.9

      واكثر الرجال حمقا وسخافة من اذا اوجس من زوجته الميل الى شخص قال لها تزهيدا فيه * ان فلانا متهتّك مستهتر فاحش لا يبالى بما يقول ويفعل * فاذا حضر مجلس ذوى الادب فاول ما يفوه به قوله قد راودت فلانة وخلبتها وفتنتها * وقد عشقتنى وعشقتها * كانه اى الزوج يحذّرها من الاسترسال الى هواه مخافة ان تنفضح بين الناس * او ان يقول لها ان فلانا ورع تقىّ يتقى مغازلة النسآ اتقآ الافاعى * كانه يقول لها انك ان تعرّضت له فى الهوى جبهك وندهك وفضحك * فقد تقرر فى عقول الرجال ان كل امر من امور الدنيا والآخرة يشين عرض المراة ويهتك حجابها * مع انه لا شى يدغدغها مثل سماعها عن رجل انه مسرف مشط فى حال من الاحوال بحيث لا يلحقها منه اذى * فهى والحالة هذه تزيد حرصا على فتنته لتصرفه عن تلك الحال اليها فيرجع

      اسرافه فى محبتها * قال فقلت نعم ان كيد النسآ كان عظيما *

      “‘The stupidest and most ridiculous of men is the one who, if he harbors doubts that his wife may have taken a liking to a certain person, tells her, to arouse dislike for him in her, “So-and-so is without honor, irresponsible, a lecher who doesn’t care what he says or does. If he attends a gathering of litterateurs, the first thing to come out of his mouth will be, ‘I made a pass at (such and such a woman) and beguiled her and charmed her, and she became my mistress and I became her lover’”—as though he (meaning the husband) were warning her against yielding to his advances and scared she might make a scandal of herself in front of everyone; or the one who tells her, “So-and-so is God-fearing and pious. He is as scared of flirting with women as he is of vipers”—as though he were telling her, “If you declare your love to him, he will repulse you, drive you away, and make a scandal of you.” Men have got it fixed in their minds that any matter, whether to do with this world or the next, can mar a woman’s honor and violate her sanctity, but in fact nothing tickles her imagination so much as hearing it said of a man that he is so excessively far gone in some way or other that he can do her no harm. In such a case, she will go out of her way to make a conquest of him so that she can dissuade him from whatever he is up to in favor of herself and redirect his excesses into love for her.’”

      The Fāriyāq went on, “And I said,

      ‘Quite right. Great indeed

      is women's guile.’”¹⁰¹

      الفصل السابع

      ڡي الطباق والتنظير

      Chapter Seven

      Compare and Contrast

      4.7.1

      الانسان كما قالت الفارياقية مجبول على السآمة والملل * ومتى ظفر بالغرض * استحوذ عليه الغرض * وما دام الرجل المتزوج حِلْس بيته ويسمع من زوجته هات واشترِ وجدِّد واصلح ودَّ لو انه يكون عزبا ولو راهبا فى صومعة * فاذا تغرب عنها وراى الرجال يمشون مع النسآ سوآ كن حليلات او خليلات اَنِف من الصومعة * وهاج به الشوق الى ان يكون له امراة يماشيها مثل اولئك وان كان مشيهم وقتئذ للتحاكم والتخاصم لدى جناب القاضى * فينبغى للزوج الملازم لِكِنِّه والحالة هذه ان لا يزال متصوّرا انه غريب فى ارض بعيدة عند اناس يخدعونه ويغبنونه ويهيجونه بمرافدهم * او ان زوجته قد سافرت عنه الى اناس يعاقرونها المدام * ويرقدونها على فرش من ريش النعام * ويغازلونها فتغزلهم * ويباعلونها فتبعلهم * فاذا فعل ذلك هانت عليه نغمات هات واشتر * وهذا جدول عن الفارياق بيّن فيه الاحوال التى يقول فيها المتزوج

      Humankind, as the Fāriyāqiyyah said, has a predisposition toward discontent and ennui, and no sooner does it gain the object of its desire than a desire for other objects takes over. Likewise, given that the married man is a fixture around the house and hears nothing from his wife but “Fetch!” “Buy!” “Renew!” and “Repair!” he dearly wishes he might be a bachelor again, even if it means being a monk in a cell. Then, if he leaves the latter and sees men walking side by side with women, whether wedded wives or lady loves, he becomes fed up with his cell, and the longing to have a wife with him and to walk with her like those others (even if their promenading is leading them at that very moment to trial and litigation before His Honor the Judge)¹⁰² rises within him. In such cases, the husband who never leaves his nest ought constantly to imagine to himself that he is a stranger in a distant land living with people who dupe him, cheat him, and inflame his senses with their bustles, or that his wife has left him to go to people who will compete to fill her glass and lay her down on an ostrich-feather palliasse, or who, should they flirt with her, will find she tells them “Yes!” and, on making love to her, find that she to them will acquiesce. СКАЧАТЬ