[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) › 68.336 # Basatin al-uns 68.336 Basātīn al-uns 68.336 - **Language:** Persian ### [68.336](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.adab.basatin-al-uns.68.336) و خلتهم سهاما صائبات نصارواها و لک فی فؤادی وقالوا قد صفت منها قلوبلقد صدقوا و لکن من ودادی نفس بدگوهر و مردم لئیم که به کمال هنر و دانش ممتاز و مستثنی بود و یک چندی بهتکلیف و تلبیس خود را در لباس زمرهآ اشراف و طبقهآ احرار بر مردمان عرضه کند، البته به حکم العرق دساس، رگ پلید وی سوی بدی و بی وفایی کشد «قل ککل یعمل علی شاکلته و خواتیم امور او به خباثت و خیانت و عداوت متصل و مقرون شود. > and I deemed them straight-flying arrows, and so they became, / but \[aimed\] into my heart! > And they said, 'Hearts have become cleared of them.' / Indeed they spoke truly, but \[cleared\] of affection for me!" > An evil-natured soul and a vile person, even if distinguished and exceptional in the perfection of skill and learning, who for a time > by affectation and dissimulation presents himself to people in the guise of the noble elite and the class of freeborn men, will inevitably, > by virtue of the decree "A vein is an ingrainer," have his vile vein draw him toward wickedness and treachery: "Say, each acts according to his disposition"; and > the outcomes of his affairs will be joined and bound to malignity, betrayal, and hostility. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) - [Previous: 68.333](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.adab.basatin-al-uns.68.333) - [Next: 68.342](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.adab.basatin-al-uns.68.342) - [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.68.336) — English, machine translation --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.adab.basatin-al-uns.68.336](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.adab.basatin-al-uns.68.336) · Pramāṇa