Kalila Wa Dimna — Page 28

Line-by-line translation · المعاني

فَالْجُمْلَةُ: «وَهُوَ غَيْرُ مَا تَرَى يَظْهَرُ مِنِّي» عَلَى غَرَابَتِهَا مُشْتَرَكَةٌ فِيهِمَا، وَقَدْ غُيِّرَتْ فِي النُّسَخِ الْأُخْرَى إِلَى: «وَهُوَ غَيْرُ الَّذِي يَظْهَرُ مِنِّي.»

The sentence 'It is other than what you see appearing from me,' despite its oddity, is common to both, though it was changed in other copies to 'It is other than that which appears from me.'

وَهَذِهِ الْجُمَلُ الْمُسْتَغْرَبَةُ فِي هَاتَيْنِ النُّسْخَتَيْنِ تَدُلَّانِ عَلَى أَصْلٍ صَحِيحٍ تَنْتَهِيَانِ إِلَيْهِ، وَمِنَ الْعَجِيبِ أَنَّهُمَا تَتَّفِقَانِ أَحْيَانًا عَلَى تَحْرِيفٍ، فَفِي قِصَّةِ «الْأَسَدِ وَالشَّعْهَرِ»: «فَلَمَّا اجْتَمَعُوا عَلَى ذَلِكَ مِنْ كَيْدِهِمْ؛ دَسُّوا ذَاتَ يَوْمٍ لَحْمًا كَانَ الْأَسَدُ اسْتَطْرَفَهُ.» نُسْخَتُنَا.

These unusual sentences in both copies point to an authentic original source; curiously, they sometimes agree on a corruption. For instance, in the story of 'The Lion and the Sha'har,' our copy reads: 'When they gathered for that out of their plotting, they slipped in one day some meat that the lion had found novel.'

«فَلَمَّا أَجْمَعُوا عَلَى ذَلِكَ لِكَيْدِهِمْ دَسُّوا ذَاتَ يَوْمٍ لَحْمًا كَانَ الْأَسَدُ اسْتَطْرَفَهُ» شِيخُو.

'When they resolved upon that for their plotting, they slipped in one day some meat that the lion had found novel,' appears in Cheikho.

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Vocabulary · المفردات (16 verbs · 38 nouns)

• رَأَى — to see
• ظَهَرَ — to appear
• غَيَّرَ — to change
• جُمْلَة — sentence
• غَيْر — other
• غَرَابَة — strangeness