Basatin al-uns 77.24

77.24

مانا بنی فی زمان قط نایبة وقد کان فیها اخذا بیدی زبان ز شکر کرمهاش قاصرست از آنک از او همه کرم است و زمن همه تقصیر بدم چو خاک سر افکنده و ز تربیتش چنان شدم که سرم میرسد به چرخ اثیر ز عون اوست که در حل و عقد کار جهانبدان حدم که مرا نیست در زمانه نظیر و قدر و منزلت من از ثری تا ثریا و از محل حضیض خاک تا بهاوج سما رسانیده و خامهآ مشکل گشای وزارت ممالک وسیع خویش که هزار ارسطو و آصف را محل قبول تقلد آن نباشد بهدست کفایت و بنان تدبیر من باز سپرده و نام مرا از جمع طبقهٔ‌ اماثل و فرقهآ اکابر در فهرست صدر جراید قربت درگاه خویش مثبت کرده و جمهور رعایا و کافهآ برایا را به تنفیذ امضای احکام من مثال داده و به همه وجه در اثبات حکم من که رقم ذکر آن بر دفتر لیل و نهار تا روز حساب باقی خواهد بود، صدق اهتمام خسروانه ارزانی داشته و هر برات امری که به قلم امضای من مزین گشته نفاذ مضمون آن را چون صحیفهٔ‌ قسمت شب برات واجب و لازم شمرده، ادای بعضی از سوابق ایادی که حساب ان مهندسان کامل کیاست را تا روز شمار دست ندهد من نیز به تقدیم رسانیدمی و خدمت یسندیده که متضمن اتمام نوعی از مصالح ملکی باشد ثابت کردمی، چه نفس شریف و مردم اصیل همه وقت در ادای حقوق منعم خویش هیچ دقیقه فرو نگذارد و به مقابلهآ برآمد مهمات ولی نعمت جان عزیز را خوار شمرد و

"Never did any calamity afflict me in time, / but that he was there taking me by the hand."
The tongue is too inadequate to give thanks for his generosities, / for from him is all bounty, and from me all failing.
I was like dust, with head cast down, and through his patronage / I became such that my head reaches the ethereal sphere.
It is by his aid that in resolving and executing the affairs of the world, / I am at such a degree that I have no peer in the age.
and raised my rank and status from the earth to the Pleiades, and from the lowest abyss of dust to the pinnacle of heaven, and the pen
that resolves difficulties in the vizierate of his vast realms—which a thousand Aristotles and Āṣafs would not be deemed worthy to undertake—
he entrusted to the hand of my competence and the fingers of my management; and he recorded my name, distinguishing it from the company of peers and the class of grandees,
at the head of the registers of proximity to his court; and he commanded the populace of subjects and the totality of creatures to execute
and carry out my decrees; and in every way, to confirm my authority—the record of which shall remain upon the register of night and day
until the Day of Reckoning—he bestowed sincere royal solicitude; and every patent of decree that was adorned with the pen
of my endorsement, he deemed the execution of its contents as necessary and obligatory as the scroll of destiny on the Night of Barat.
I too would fulfill the repayment of some of those past favors, the calculation of which would elude the most proficient geometricians until the Day of Reckoning,
and I would establish praiseworthy service that encompassed the completion of some category of the realm’s interests.
For a noble soul and a well-born person never, at any time, neglects the slightest detail in fulfilling the rights of his benefactor,
and in exchange for attending to the vital affairs of his patron, he holds his precious life of little account, and