[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Indian literature](https://indike.org/pramana/in) › [Dark Ages](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages) › [Persian and Urdu literature](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.adab) › [Basatin al-uns](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.adab.basatin-al-uns) › 68.291 # Basatin al-uns 68.291 Basātīn al-uns 68.291 - **Language:** Persian ### [68.291](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.adab.basatin-al-uns.68.291) میاه لو طرحت بها لجنبا ومشهها لمیرت انتقادا و دام وافر استحکام که به جهت بند جانور آبی همه تن چشم گشته بود زیر آب فرو میبرد و با انواع حیوانات مشحون و مالامال که عدد آن را چون فطرت باران سر بالا نتوان کرد برمی آورد، چون از شکار مراجعت نمود آهویی در اثنای راه افتاده دید و قفس تنش از مرغ جان خالی یافت، او را هوا و هوس بر آن آورد که روح خود را در تن آهو اندازد، تا حالات آن را در جست و خاست دریابد که چگونه است و آن علم شریف را عین الیقین بیند، چون جثهٔ‌ خویش را از روح خالی کرد، آهو در جستن آمد و بههر طرف میدوید و جوانب و اطراف صحرا را پی به سر می گردانید، وزیر را خیال ملک در سر افتاد و تمنای سری و آرزوی سروری عقل او را بپوشید تا خاک در چشم مروت انداخت و داغ کفران نعمت بر جبین نهاد و هم از کوی او خاست و هم بر روی او خاست، چون ابر که بهمدد تربیت و مهر خورشید از حضیض خاک تیره سراپردهآ رفعت و علو در صحرای هوای روشن زند و بعد از آن که قطرهآ آبی از چرخ سیاه کاسه بر جگر نداشت خزائن جواهر آبدار در قبضهآ تصرف آرد، باز به باعثهآ عرق خسیس و اصل و نی از تیرگی باطن و سبک سایگی به معارضه بر روی آفتاب برآید و چشم جهانبین او را از نظاره سواد گلشن گیتی محجوب گرداند، و بهنقاب کحلی و حجاب اغبر طلعت عالم افروز او را از دیدهٔ‌ جهان بین مستور کند و چهرهٔ‌ نور افشان او را از نور گستری مانع گردد و هر لحظه و هر زمان بهدست کین خنجر یمانی برق کمان رستم بر روی او کشد و از رعد صور هیت نعرهٔ‌ مخاصمت و بانگ محاربت بهسوی او برآرد، فی الحال وزیر روح پلید خود را در تن پاک ولی نعمت خویش دراورد و تن خود را بهزخم تیغ پاره پاره گردانید و بند از بند جدا کرد، چنانچه قابل قبول حمایت نماند و بر سبیل مسارعت در قصر دولت یادشاه آمد و بدین طلسم و نیرنگ مملکت در ضبط اورد و پادشاه را حرمی بود روح افزا نام، چون حرکات و سکنات و اقوال و افعال او برخلاف آنچه از پادشاه معاینه کرده > Waters which, if you were to cast \[...\] into them, / and touch them, would reveal themselves to scrutiny; > and he would submerge beneath the water a exceedingly strong net that had become all eyes for trapping aquatic creatures, > and would bring it out packed and brimming with diverse kinds of animals whose number, like the downpour of rain, could not be reckoned. > When he returned from hunting, along the way he saw a deer lying down, and found the cage of its body emptied of the bird > of its soul. Passion and caprice moved him to cast his own soul into the deer's body, so that he might perceive its states > in leaping and bounding, how it was, and witness that noble science with the eye of certainty. When > he emptied his own frame of its soul, the deer began to leap and ran about in every direction, traversing the limits and > expanses of the plain back and forth. The thought of sovereignty entered the vizier's head, and the desire for supremacy and the longing > for lordship blinded his intellect, so that he threw dust into the eye of chivalrous virtue, placed the brand of ingratitude upon his brow, > and both rose from his lane and rose against him—like a cloud that, through the fostering aid and love of the sun, > pitches the pavilion of elevation and loftiness from the abyss of dark earth into the plain of the luminous sky, and after it had not possessed > a drop of water in its liver from the miserly heaven, takes hold of treasuries of lustrous gems; then, prompted by > its base descent and mean origin, out of inner darkness and fleeting shadow, rises in opposition against the face of the sun, > and veils its world-beholding eye from contemplating the dark expanse of the garden of the world, and with a kohl-dark veil and a dust-colored > curtain conceals its world-illuminating countenance from the world-seeing eye, preventing its light-shedding face from spreading > light; and every moment and every hour, with the hand of malice, draws across its face the Yemenite dagger \[flashing like\] the lightning of Rustam's bow, > and from the thunderous forms raises toward it the roar of strife and the clamor of war. Forthwith, > the vizier transferred his impure soul into the pure body of his benefactor, cut his own body to pieces with the strike of a sword, > and separated limb from limb so that it was no longer capable of receiving life; and with all haste he entered > the palace of imperial fortune, and by this talisman and trickery brought the kingdom under his control. Now the king had a consort > named Rūḥ-afzā. When she saw that his movements, gestures, words, and actions were contrary to what she had witnessed from the king, > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) - [Previous: 68.285](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.adab.basatin-al-uns.68.285) - [Next: 68.313](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.adab.basatin-al-uns.68.313) - [Up: 68](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.adab.basatin-al-uns.68) ## Translations (1) - [English (machine translation)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.adab.basatin-al-uns~en-mt.68.291) — English, machine translation --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.adab.basatin-al-uns.68.291](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.adab.basatin-al-uns.68.291) · Pramāṇa