Basatin al-uns 35.55

35.55

نحلت حتی اذا هیبت حلی فتجللا ریح الصبا لا ربه وما عقلا و لو أرادت صغا را لنمل تحملنی الی قواها تحوز السهل و الجبلا و خیمهآ تن که به چهار میخ عناصر برپاست بر شکل خیمهٔ‌ حباب از آسیب تندباد حوادث در هم افتاد و استخوان که قوام و عمود استوار بدن است به بلای «وهن آلعظم منی»1 مبتلا شد و عقل که در ظلمات وقایع و حوادث شمعی جهان افروز است مانند دیدهٔ‌ اکمه از زیور نور عاری و عاطل مانده، حرارت غریزی که گرمی مجلس بقا و نور شمع وجود انسان بدان منوط و مربوط است چون انگشت در آب انطفا یذیرفت و دست تصرف حواس ظاهر و باطن در زپر سنگ آفت خرد بشکست، مردم دیدهٔ‌ جهانبین که در ظلمت شب تحرک مور ضعیف بر سنگ سیاه بهمدد قوت باصره دریافتی، جبال اسمان سای را در روز روشن نمی دید و زبان لطایف پرداز که بر شاخسار انشا و انشاد3 عندلیبی خوش آواز بود مانند زبان سوسن از ادای یک حرف عاجز و مضطر می گشت و گوش که طنین پشهآ بیمار را از صد میل استماع5 کردی اگر هزار کوس رعد از نزدیک او برمی کوفتند بر صفت گوش بنفشه به هیچ سبیل نمیشنید و دست که از غایت قوت بهزخم مشت سندان شکن در تن کوه قوی بنیت غارهای وسیع پدید آوردی، در گسستن تار دقیق عنکبوت از پای درمیآمد و پای که در سرعت سیر صرصر و به کنار آب بههزار فرسنگ متعاقب2 می گذاشت بههنگام مشتی7 با مورچهآ پا شکسته برابری

I grew so emaciated that whenever the zephyr blew upon me / it covered me, without being perceived by sight or intellect.
And if the smallest of ants wished to carry me / by its strength, it would traverse plain and mountain.
The tent of the body, which is pitched upon the four tent-pegs of the elements, collapsed like a tent made of a bubble from the shock of the tempest of calamities;
the bone, which is the strength and firm pillar of the body, was afflicted with the trial of “My bones have grown feeble”; and
the intellect, which in the darkness of misfortunes and tribulations is a world-illuminating candle, was stripped and bereft of the ornament of light, like the eye of the born-blind;
the innate heat, upon which the warmth of the banquet of endurance and the light of the candle of human existence are dependent
and connected, was extinguished like a coal in water; the hand of control of the external and internal senses
was crushed to pieces beneath the stone of the catastrophe of distress; the pupil of the world-seeing eye, which in the dark of night would perceive the movement of a feeble ant upon
a black stone by the aid of the visual power, could not see sky-brushing mountains in the bright daylight; the tongue
that adorned subtleties, which upon the bough of composition and recitation had been a sweet-singing nightingale, became helpless and constrained, like the tongue of the lily, from uttering
a single word; and the ear, which used to hear the buzzing of a sick gnat from a hundred miles away,
if a thousand drums of thunder were beaten near it, like the violet's ear, it would hear nothing by any means; and
the hand that, by the extreme force of an anvil-shattering fist, had produced wide caves in the body of a firmly-built mountain,
succumbed in snapping the delicate thread of a spider's web; and the foot that, in swiftness of speed, had left behind the violent wind and
at the water's edge outdistanced [others] by a thousand parasangs, could not compete at the time of walking with a broken-legged ant;