Just One Question

فقط یک سوال

One Day a scholar came to the court of Emperor Akbar and challenged Birbal to answer his questions and thus prove that he was as clever as people said he was.

روزی دانشمندی به دربار امپراتور اکبر آمد و بیربال را به چالش کشید تا به سؤالات او پاسخ دهد و بدین ترتیب ثابت کند که او به همان اندازه که مردم می گویند باهوش است.

He asked Birbal: "Would you prefer to answer a hundred easy questions or just a single difficult one?"

او از بیربال پرسید: "آیا ترجیح می دهید به صد سوال آسان پاسخ دهید یا فقط به یک سوال دشوار؟"

Both the emperor and Birbal had had a difficult day and were impatient to leave.

هم امپراتور و هم بیربال روز سختی را سپری کرده بودند و برای رفتن بی تاب بودند.

"Ask me one difficult question," sad Birbal.

بیربال غمگین "یک سوال سخت از من بپرس."

"Well, then, tell me," said the man, "which came first into the world, the chicken or the egg?"

مرد گفت: "خب، پس به من بگو، مرغ یا تخم مرغ اولین بار به دنیا آمد؟"

"The chicken," replied Birbal.

بیربال پاسخ داد: مرغ.

"How do you know?" asked the scholar, a note of triumph in his voice.

"از کجا میدونی؟" از محقق پرسید که در صدای او نت پیروزی بود.

"We had agreed you would ask only one question and you have already asked it" said Birbal and he and the emperor walked away leaving the scholar gaping.

بیربال گفت: "ما توافق کرده بودیم که شما فقط یک سوال بپرسید و شما قبلاً آن را پرسیده اید."