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# Basatin al-uns 77.74

Basātīn al-uns 77.74

- **Language:** Persian

### [77.74](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.adab.basatin-al-uns.77.74)

بر ذره نشینم نخمد بختم بین موری بهدو منزلی برد رختم بین گر لقمه مثل ز قرص خورشید کنم تاریکی سینه بر دهد، بختم بین زمانی بر این حالت نا موافق و فکرت اندوه افزای بودم که ناگاه در آن جزیره زاهدی سروقت من رسید که نور طاعت از اسرهٔ‌ جبین آفتاب آسای او میتافت و طلعت کرامت نمایش از مضمون «سیماهم فی وجوههم من أثر آلسجود»2 نشان میداد، بر سپهر کرامت قطبی پا بر جای و در راه طریقت غوثی راهنمای، پیر عیسی دم و موسی قدم، خضر علم مصطفی شیم، از همه علایق و مشاغل دنیاوی تجرید گزیده و مانند شمشیر بهلباسی سبز قانع شده و در میان بیداد پرمحنت و بلامسکن و ماوی ساخته و از لذات شهوات نفسانی چون قانع از سؤال دامن جان بر چیده، روی از محبت خانه و اموال و اولاد گردانید و یشت بهدیوار قناعت و ریاضت آورده، با عروس عزلت پیوند تازه کرده، طوق شوق حضرت عزت بیچون، چون فاخته در گردن دل کشیده و در ریاض ریاضت بر شاخسار «لی مع الله وفت»2 بلبل آسا به تسبیح و اوراد مترنم شده، نظم:

> If I sit upon a speck of dust, it does not stir; behold my fortune! / An ant carries off my baggage over two stages; behold my fortune!  
> Though by way of parable I make a morsel of the sun's disk, / it yields only darkness in my breast; behold my fortune!  
> For some time I was in this unpropitious state and sorrow-increasing contemplation, when suddenly on that island an ascetic arrived at my side,  
> the light of obedience shining from the lines of his sun-like brow, and his countenance of apparent grace  
> giving indication of the purport of 'their mark is on their faces from the trace of prostration'; an immovable pole upon the sphere of grace, and  
> a guiding ghawth upon the mystical path; an elder with the breath of Jesus and the footstep of Moses, with the knowledge of Khiḍr and the character of Muṣṭafā; he had chosen detachment from all worldly  
> attachments and occupations, and like a sword was content with a garment of green; and in the midst of the affliction and hardship of the wilderness  
> he had made his dwelling and abode; and from the pleasures of carnal lusts, like a contented man from begging, he had tucked up the skirt of his soul;  
> he had turned his face from the love of house, wealth, and children, and set his back against the wall of contentment and ascetic discipline;  
> he had renewed his union with the bride of seclusion; like a ringdove he had placed the collar of yearning for the Unconditioned Divine Presence upon the neck  
> of his heart; and in the gardens of discipline, upon the bough of 'I have a time with God,' he sang his glorifications and litanies like a nightingale; verse:  
> verse:  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

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## Translations (1)

- [English (machine translation)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.adab.basatin-al-uns~en-mt.77.74) — English, machine translation

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