Basatin al-uns 78.124

78.124

هر خانه رشک «ارم ذات العماد (3»1 و صفت عمارات بی نظیرش «لم سخلق مثلها فی آلبلد (:»3 دجلهآ بغداد از غیرت آب روانش خویشتن را در بحر افکند و مانند شرمساران لب خشک دیدهتر مانده، و هم مسرع به تصور قعر آن در گرداب حیرت غرق میشد و ابر و باد را بیمدد و معونت کشتی به کرانهآ آن وصول ممکن نمی گشت، حلاوت آب خوشگوارش نشان کوثر و سلسبیا داده و از خجلت ذوق زلال جداول و انهارش آب از چشمههای آب حیات گشاده، سواد بساتین از پرتو مصابیح انوار و ریاحین در شب تار از روز روشنتر نموده، عطار باد صبا از مدد نسیم گلهای مشک بویش در اطراف عالم غالیه سوده، هوای جان پرورش مایه بخش نسیم بهار، قصرهای چون نگارخانهآ چینش بر کران ماء معین نمونهآ «جنت تجری من تحتها الأنهر»3 عقد مشکلات علوم منقول و معقول جز بهمدد طبع نقاد علمای وافر فطانت آن نگشاده، شجرهآ دقایق فروع و اصول را جز خاطر بحر فیض متفتنان صافی ذهنش آب نداده:

every house was the envy of “Iram of the Pillars,” and the quality of its peerless buildings was “the like of which was never created in the lands.” The Tigris of
Baghdad, out of jealousy for its flowing water, cast itself into the ocean, and remained like the ashamed with dry lips and tearful eyes;
the swiftest imagination would drown in the whirlpool of bewilderment at the conception of its depth, and for cloud and wind to reach its bank was impossible
without the aid and assistance of a ship. The sweetness of its pleasant water gave a sign of Kawthar and
Salsabīl, and out of shame before the sweet taste of the pure streams and rivers, water opened forth from the springs of the Water of Life.
The dark verdure of its gardens seemed brighter than broad daylight in the dark night from the radiance of the lamps of blooms and fragrant herbs. The perfumer of the zephyr,
with the aid of the breeze from its musk-scented roses, ground civet into all quarters of the world. Its soul-nourishing air gave essence to the breeze
of spring; its palaces, like the picture-gallery of China on the bank of flowing water, were an exemplar of “gardens beneath which rivers flow.”
The knot of difficult problems in the transmitted and rational sciences was never untied except by the aid of the critical genius of its vastly intelligent scholars; the tree of
the subtleties of the subsidiary branches and fundamental principles was never watered except by the mind of its clear-witted, versatile thinkers, boundless as the sea of bounty: