Basatin al-uns 35.112

35.112

بلاد1 بها فیطت علی تمائمی و أول أرض مس جلدی ترابها و جواهر ثمین انواع هنر از آن معدن محاسن و کان فضایل بهدست آورده و انتظام سلک2 دوستان جانی و برادران مشفق در آن بلدهآ طیبه3آ با منزلت اتفاق افتاده، نسیم راحت در مشام روح عطرسایی نمیکرد و صحن ضمیر بهنور و سرور روشن نمیشد، چون خار مغیلان5 خبیث" در طریق تمنی و هوس بیشمار افتاد و تجرع کاس زهر مذاق نومیدی از حد گذشت و در طی مسالک طلب، گوهر مقصود پای جد و اجتهاد لنگ شد، ناگاه تباشیر صبح و سعادت از مطلع مراد تجلی کرد و مبشر اقبال نداء «فکشفنا ما به من ضر»2 برآورد و برهان مضمون «کم من فرجة مطویة ما بین أثناء النوائب و مسرة قد أقبلت من حیث ینتظر المصائب»8 به تحقیق ییوست و بعد قطع منازل دور و دراز و احتمال مشقت سیر بیابانهای پرنشیب و فراز که دوایر افلاک در پیش او خردتر از تدویر جزم نمودی و ابر نیسان در فضای سراب آن از سورت عطش جان بدادی، و نقطههای ریگ روانش خط نسخ بر صحایف اعمار می کشید و حرفهای تیغ حبابش اقدام را مانند سر قلم دو پاره میکرد، آب جز از لمعان شوره زار و سایه جز در سوراخ سوسمار تصور نمیشد، در سواد دارالملک دهلی نزول شد و از هبوب ریاح مشکبوی نهال امید حیات که صفت خشکی پذیرفته بود سرسبزی آغاز نهاد و جان که بار سفر میبست بر اقامت مسکن مألوف تن عزم جزم کرد و «الغطام عن المألوف شدیدا»9، و

Lands wherein my amulets were tied upon me, / and the first ground whose dust touched my skin;
and where the precious gems of various talents had been acquired from that mine of excellences and source of virtues; and where the arrangement of the thread
of intimate friends and compassionate brothers had taken place in that good, exalted city—no breeze of comfort spread fragrance into the nostrils
of the spirit, and the court of the inner mind was not illuminated with light and joy. When the foul thorns of the camel-thorn
fell innumerably in the path of wishing and desire, and drinking from the poison-tasting cup of despair exceeded all bounds,
and in traversing the paths of seeking the gem of purpose, the foot of diligence and exertion grew lame; suddenly the early signs of morning and
felicity shone forth from the horizon of desire, and the herald of good fortune raised the cry: “So We relieved him of the harm that was upon him”; and the proof
of the content of “How many a relief is folded within the midst of tribulations, and how much joy has arrived from where afflictions were expected!”
was truly verified. And after crossing far and long stages and enduring the hardship of traversing deserts full of steep ascents and descents,
before which the orbits of the celestial spheres appeared smaller than the circle of an apocope, and the spring clouds would perish from the heat
of thirst in the expanse of their mirages; and whose grains of shifting sand drew the line of cancellation across the pages of life-spans; and
the blade-letters of whose mirages cleaved feet in two like the nib of a pen; where water could be imagined only from the gleaming of a salt-flat, and
shade only within the hole of a lizard; an arrival was made in the environs of the capital Delhi, and from the blowing
of the musk-scented winds, the sapling of the hope of life, which had acquired the quality of dryness, began to flourish green, and the soul which
was packing its bags for travel, firmly resolved to remain in the accustomed dwelling of the body, and "weaning from the familiar is hard"; and