[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) › 77.65 # Basatin al-uns 77.65 Basātīn al-uns 77.65 - **Language:** Persian ### [77.65](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.adab.basatin-al-uns.77.65) مسرت نامتناهی قرار و آرام گرفت، اما چون مدتی مدید قوت مغذیه بهفقدان غذای موافق که قوام بنی آدم را سببی ظاهر است مبتلا گشته بود و آتش جوع معده که «ارالمعدة تاکل و تشرب» یکی از اوصاف اوست، قوای جسمانی را پاک بسوخته و تن از غایت نحافت چنان شده که تا در گوش مردم آواز من نمیرسد بر وجود استدلال می نکرد و بر اعضا قوت ضعف چنان غالب و مستولی گشته که از تحمل بار سایهآ برگ گل عاجز و مضطر می گشت و مانند بنفشه از سر تا یا کبود میشد و هرچند برای استطلاع و تنسم خبر ممکنی و منزلی میخواستم تا چند گامی بزنم، بههیچ گونه بر این مطلوب دسترس نمییافتم و مانند زمین زمن بر اندک حرکتی قادر نمی گشتم، تو گفتی این رباعی در وصف بیت الاحزان سینهآ من گفتهاند و در این معنی برای جید وجود من سفتهاند، نظم: > boundless delight. However, because for a long period the nutritive faculty had been afflicted by the lack of suitable food—which > is an evident cause for the constitution of the sons of Adam—and the fire of the stomach's hunger (for 'surely the stomach eats and > drinks' is one of its attributes) had utterly consumed the bodily faculties, and the body had become so emaciated > that unless my voice reached people's ears, they could not infer my existence; and the force of weakness had so overcome and dominated my limbs > that it was helpless and distressed under the burden of the shadow of a rose petal, and like > a violet turned livid from head to foot; and however much I wished to walk a few steps to seek and catch scent of news of any habitation or dwelling, > I could find no access to this desire, and like a chronically infirm earth, I was incapable of the slightest > movement. You would say this quatrain was uttered in description of the House of Sorrows of my breast, and in this > sense had been pierced as a pearl for the neck of my existence; verse: > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) - [Previous: 77.40](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.adab.basatin-al-uns.77.40) - [Next: 77.74](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.adab.basatin-al-uns.77.74) - [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.77.65) — English, machine translation --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.adab.basatin-al-uns.77.65](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.adab.basatin-al-uns.77.65) · Pramāṇa