[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) › [Basātīn al-uns](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.adab.basatin-al-uns) › [English (machine translation)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.adab.basatin-al-uns~en-mt) › 77.65 # Basatin al-uns 77.65 English (machine translation) 77.65 - **Language:** English ### [77.65](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.adab.basatin-al-uns~en-mt.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: - [Previous: 77.40](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.adab.basatin-al-uns~en-mt.77.40) - [Next: 77.74](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.adab.basatin-al-uns~en-mt.77.74) - [Up: 77](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.adab.basatin-al-uns~en-mt.77) ## Linked texts (1) - [Basātīn al-uns](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.adab.basatin-al-uns.77.65) — Ṣadr al-Dīn Akhtasān Dihlavī, Persian --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.adab.basatin-al-uns~en-mt.77.65](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.adab.basatin-al-uns~en-mt.77.65) · Pramāṇa