[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) › 68.385 # Basatin al-uns 68.385 Basātīn al-uns 68.385 - **Language:** Persian ### [68.385](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.adab.basatin-al-uns.68.385) تا یک روز با روح افزا طوطی به وقت خالی در سخن آمد و گفت چه موجب است که رخسار چون ماه نو مکلف تغیر موسوم شده است و گل نسرین عارض تو که در لطافت آب گلهای تازه و تر میبرد و از آب رنگ خود مانده است، سرو قدت که در راستی از سرو سهی بالاتر بود چون قامت بنفشه خم گرفته و طرهٔ‌ مشکینت که نافههای خطایی را سرمایهآ عطر میبخشید چون زلف چنگ و گیسوی پر خم از بوی خوش بینصیب گشته، تن نازکت و دقت از جسم مدفون نشتر حکایت میکند و دیدهآ جهان بینت بهسان کوی فصاد بهخون جگر آلوده میباشد، روح افزا جواب داد که همگنان را روشن و مبرهن است که در چشم بی نور و تن بی جان و نهال بی بر و صدف بی گوهر هیچ رونقی و زینتی نتوان یافت و زلیخای یوسف بهباد داده و شیرین از خسرو دور افتاده را مردن بسیار خوشتر از زیستن نماید و از شجرهآ امید ثمرهآ سرور و طرب بهدست نیاید، شعر: > Until one day, at a private moment, the parrot entered into speech with Rūḥ-afzā and said, “What is the cause that > the cheek like a new moon has been branded with the burden of change, and the wild-rose blossom of your cheek, which in delicacy used to strip the freshness > from moist, fresh flowers, has lost its luster and flush? The cypress of your stature, which in straightness towered above the stately cypress, > has bent like the form of a violet; and your musky forelock, which bestowed the essence of perfume upon the musk-pods of Khotan, > has become deprived of sweet fragrance like the twisted string of a harp and curled tresses. Your delicate body > in its thinness tells of the buried body of a lancet, and your world-beholding eyes, like the lane of a phlebotomist, are stained with the liver’s blood.” > Rūḥ-afzā replied, “It is clear and evident to all that in a lightless eye, a lifeless body, a fruit-bearing shoot with no fruit, and an oyster-shell without a pearl, no brilliance or adornment can be found; and for a Zulaykhā > who has cast her Joseph to the wind, or a Shīrīn cast far from Khusraw, dying appears far pleasanter than living, and from > the tree of hope the fruit of joy and delight is not obtained. Verse: > the fruit of joy and delight is not obtained from the tree of hope, verse: > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) - [Previous: 68.381](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.adab.basatin-al-uns.68.381) - [Next: 68.395](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.adab.basatin-al-uns.68.395) - [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.68.385) — English, machine translation --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.adab.basatin-al-uns.68.385](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.adab.basatin-al-uns.68.385) · Pramāṇa