11. По произведению Джебрана Халиля Джебрана
Пророк
(The Prophet)
САЙГИТУ ГАСАНОВУ И ЕГО ИЗУМИТЕЛЬНЫМ РОДИТЕЛЯМ.
С ТЕПЛОМ И УВАЖЕНИЕМ.
О Купле и Продаже
И промолвил купец - О продаже скажи... О продаже и купле поведай.
И ответил ему Человек - Вам земля дарит... дарит подарки...
Если знать, как вам с ними быть... жить...
Обретете довольство и счастье.
Дар земли обменять можно... можно на ВСЁ!
Но обмен без любви снова горе сулит...
Жадность... жадность стоит за порогом...
Вы моря исходили... познали поля...
На базаре плоды обменяйте!
На горшки, что горшечник принес,
ткань возьмите и пряности... тоже...
Но обмен совершайте честней -
прогоните бездельников или...
так скажите ленивым -
Вместе в поле пойдем. Вместе в море пойдем...
И тогда... все по-братски разделим!
А певцов и флейтистов одарите стократ -
дар душе вашей стоит подарков...
И проверьте - на всех ли хватило тех благ,
что земля и моря подарили...
Рина Феликс
On Buying & Selling
And a merchant said, "Speak to us of Buying and Selling."
And he answered and said:
To you the earth yields her fruit, and you shall not want if you but know how to fill your hands.
It is in exchanging the gifts of the earth that you shall find abundance and be satisfied.
Yet unless the exchange be in love and kindly justice, it will but lead some to greed and others to hunger.
When in the market place you toilers of the sea and fields and vineyards meet the weavers and the potters and the gatherers of spices,
- Invoke then the master spirit of the earth, to come into your midst and sanctify the scales and the reckoning that weighs value against value.
And suffer not the barren-handed to take part in your transactions, who would sell their words for your labour.
To such men you should say,
"Come with us to the field, or go with our brothers to the sea and cast your net; For the land and the sea shall be bountiful to you even as to us."
And if there come the singers and the dancers and the flute players, - buy of their gifts also.
For they too are gatherers of fruit and frankincense, and that which they bring, though fashioned of dreams, is raiment and food for your soul.
And before you leave the marketplace, see that no one has gone his way with empty hands.
For the master spirit of the earth shall not sleep peacefully upon the wind till the needs of the least of you are satisfied.