Basatin al-uns 68.321

68.321

کای دیده گنه تو کردهای آب تو ریز کالباحث عن حتقه بظلفه والجادع مارن أئفه بکفه2 و هر آیینه هر که پای از دایرهآ قبول نصایح ارباب خرد و اصحاب دانش که در بحار حوادث روزگار غواصی کرده و جواهر ثمین تجارب بهدست آوردهاند، بیرون کشد دستش از دامن مقصود کوتاه مانده بر تحصیل هیچ مرادی قادر نگردد و از گشاد کمان غفلت تیر ناوک آفت بر دل خورد و در حبائل مکیدت و خداع کین جویان مقید شود و گردنش از گریبان گیر فنا نجات و خلاص نیابد و دولت و اقبال از سیاحت وجود او دامن برچیند و هیچ وقت دست مراد از آستین نجاح بیرون نتواند کشید و در حریم فراغ دامان التجا مأمنی نتواند طلبید و عرصهآ جهان فراخ چون سطح نگین خاتم بر او تنگ گردد و همه وقت از فوات مطلوب و ذهاب مأمول مانند انگشترین انگشت حسرت و دریغ در دهان باشد تا مدتی شاخ درخت امید او مانند شاخ آهوان خشک و بیبرگ مانده با سینهای کباب و چشمی پراب بر زبان میراند که:

"O eye, you committed the crime, shed your own tears!"
"Like the one who digs for his own death with his hoof, and the one who severs the bridge of his own nose with his hand."
Indeed, whoever steps outside the circle of accepting the counsels of the masters of intellect and possessors of knowledge, who
have dived into the seas of the fortunes of the age and acquired the precious pearls of experience, his hand
will fall short of the hem of purpose, he will not be able to attain any desire, and from the loosed bow of heedlessness the arrow
of misfortune will strike his heart; he will become bound in the snares of the scheming and deception of the vengeful, his neck will find no deliverance or escape
from the collar-seizing grasp of ruin, good fortune and prosperity will withdraw their skirts from traversing his existence, he will never be able
to draw the hand of purpose from the sleeve of success, he will find no refuge in the precinct of ease along the skirt of supplication,
and the wide expanse of the world will become narrow to him like the bezel of a signet ring; at all times, from the loss of what he sought and
the vanishing of what he hoped for, he will place the finger of sorrow and regret into his mouth like a ring, until for a long while the branch of the tree of his hope,
like the antlers of deer, remains dry and leafless, and with a broiled chest and tearful eyes he would utter: