Basatin al-uns 77.65

77.65

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: