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# Basatin al-uns 68.321

Basātīn al-uns 68.321

- **Language:** Persian

### [68.321](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.adab.basatin-al-uns.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:  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

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## Translations (1)

- [English (machine translation)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.adab.basatin-al-uns~en-mt.68.321) — English, machine translation

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