Omar KhayyamОмар Хайям
1 passageотрывков: 1
Each date opens its day beside the list, with these passages marked.Каждая дата открывает свой день рядом со списком, где отрывки этого автора отмечены.
4. Никто еще не проник в тайну великого начала. Никто не ступил шага вне самого себя. О ты, в поисках кого находится весь мир в смятении! Святой так же, как и порочный, нищий, так же, как и богатый, все одинаково далеки от возможности достигнуть тебя: имя твое звучит вместе с существованием всех, но все глухи; ты перед всеми глазами, но все слепы.
4. No one has yet penetrated the mystery of the great principle. No one has taken a step outside himself. O you, in search of whom the whole world is in turmoil! The saint as well as the vicious, the beggar as well as the rich, all are equally far from being able to reach you: your name sounds together with the existence of all, but all are deaf; you are before all eyes, but all are blind.
The Persian Khayyam, eleventh century.
From Quatrains ascribed to Omar Khayyam · reworded by Tolstoy (more).
What changedConway’s “the saintly mendicant and the rich man,” after Nicolas’s “le derviche et le riche,” the dervish and the rich man, become “The saint as well as the vicious, the beggar as well as the rich”: the saintly beggar is split in two, and the vicious man is added, so the saint is as far from God as the vicious man.
What Tolstoy read · The Sacred AnthologyNo one has ever penetrated the secret of the great principle ; …
0 thou, in the search for whom a world is in dizziness and in distress !
… the saintly mendicant and the rich man are equally far …
… thy name blends with the existence of all, but all are deaf; thou art present under the eyes of all, but all are blind.
Source text: archive.orgOriginal · Persianکس مشکل اسرار اجل را نگشاد
کس یک قدم از دایره بیرون ننهاد
Source text: api.ganjoor.netIn English · E. H. Whinfield, 1883What sage the eternal tangle e'er unravelled, Or one short step beyond his nature travelled?
The world is baffled in its search for Thee, Wealth cannot find Thee, no, nor poverty ; …
Thou'rt very near us, but our ears are deaf, Our eyes are blinded that we may not see !
Source text: archive.orgAnother translation · Les quatrains de Khèyam, traduits du persan par J.-B. NicolasPersonne n'a pénétré les secrets du Principe ; personne n'a fait un pas en dehors de soi-même.
… le derviche et le riche sont également vides de moyens pour parvenir à toi : …
… ton nom est mêlé aux entretiens de tous, mais tous sont sourds; tu es présent aux yeux de tous, mais tous sont aveugles.
Source text: archive.orgDetails
The words shown were found, word for word, in the saved source text. Quatrains ascribed to Omar Khayyam, Nicolas nos. 175 and 204; Conway (1874), no. CXIX, Ignorant Certainty, p. 73, margin 'Persian.' and '11th cent.' (as the scan reads them).
Two quatrains that Conway prints in one section, 'Ignorant Certainty', from Nicolas's French; Conway's margin reads 'Persian' and '11th cent.', which Tolstoy's signature repeats. Tolstoy takes the first sentence of the first quatrain closely ('No one has ever penetrated the secret of the great principle; no one has ever taken a step beyond himself'), leaves out the rest of it ('I observe, and I have seen only inadequacy, since a pupil looking up to his master — inadequacy in all of woman born'), and gives the second whole, with one change: 'the saintly mendicant and the rich man are equally far from the means of reaching thee' becomes «Святой так же, как и порочный, нищий, так же, как и богатый, все одинаково далеки от возможности достигнуть тебя» (the saint as well as the vicious man, the beggar as well as the rich, are all equally far from the possibility of reaching thee). Conway's saintly beggar is split into the saint and the beggar, and the vicious man is added. 'Thy name blends with the existence of all' is Conway's, and Tolstoy's «имя твое звучит вместе с существованием всех» follows it; Nicolas has «ton nom est mêlé aux entretiens de tous» (thy name is mixed in the talk of all), and his «le derviche et le riche» (the dervish and the rich man) is what Conway made 'the saintly mendicant'. So Tolstoy read Conway. The first quatrain is no. 82 of Khayyam's Rubaiyat on Ganjoor: 'no one has solved the riddle of the secrets of ajal (the appointed hour of death); no one has set a foot outside the circle; I look from the novice to the master: helplessness is in the hand of every one born of a mother'. Nicolas's «les secrets du Principe» suggests that his text read ازل (azal, eternity without beginning) for اجل. Whinfield (1883) gives both quatrains (nos. 190 and 247), the second from Nicolas's edition alone; its Persian was not found on Ganjoor, and the Persian pages of Nicolas's book are not legible in the scan.