[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) › 77.24 # Basatin al-uns 77.24 Basātīn al-uns 77.24 - **Language:** Persian ### [77.24](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.adab.basatin-al-uns.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 > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) - [Previous: 77.16](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.adab.basatin-al-uns.77.16) - [Next: 77.40](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.adab.basatin-al-uns.77.40) - [Up: 77](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.adab.basatin-al-uns.77) ## Translations (1) - [English (machine translation)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.adab.basatin-al-uns~en-mt.77.24) — English, machine translation --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.adab.basatin-al-uns.77.24](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.adab.basatin-al-uns.77.24) · Pramāṇa