Basatin al-uns 35.104

35.104

فهذا العیش مالا خیر فیه الا موت یباع فأشتریه إذا شاهدت قیرا من بعید وددت أننی7 فیما یلیه در بیع و شری ز دیده بشتافتمی گر هیچ اجل را به بها یافتمی و از سبب هجوم حوادت و ازدحام نوایب مرغ جان از اشیان تن عزم مفارقت جزم گردانیده و تن ضعیف به احتمال درد وداع9 جان راضی شده و بی تقبیل خاک جان پرور حضرت معظمهآ دهلی که مولد و منشأ اصلی من است و نهال وجود از تأثیر آب و هوای آن نشو و نما یافته و در حدیقهآ تن غنچهآ شباب در آن دارالملک بهشت آسا در تبسم آمده. لمؤلفه10:

For this life is something in which there is no good; / is there no death that is sold so that I might buy it?
Whenever I beheld a grave from afar, / I wished that I were in what lies adjacent to it.
I would have hastened with my eyes to buy and sell, / if only I could find death for a price.
And on account of the onslaught of events and the throng of misfortunes, the bird of the soul resolved firmly to depart from the nest of the body,
and the weak body resigned itself to enduring the pain of parting with the soul; and without kissing the soul-nourishing dust of the revered capital
of Delhi—which is my original birthplace and native land, and where the sapling of my existence grew and developed through the influence of its climate,
and where the bud of youth in the garden of the body smiled in that paradise-like capital—by the author: