Muntakhab al-tawarikh 28.3

28.3

They determine for me an imprisonment like that of Bizhan in the well of tyranny. I have not seen Manizha nor have I committed the crime of Bizhan.
Patience by the strength of Rustam, as one may say, I have entrusted the strength necessary for my release to the arm of Rustam-like patience.
All of my companions are free to follow their occupations while I am fast in prison.
God forbid I should be the only one of all mankind to have committed this fault!
The times are out of joint, if not how can the following of the Ishraqi philosophy which I followed so excellently have thrown me into misfortune?
The shaft of the tyrannical heavens passed through and through from the back, although I had armed my breast with the cuirass of patience.
My body longs for food in the captivity of sorrow, and I have prepared for its support my blood as its drink, and my heart as its meal.
Once I was like the tulip in complaining, but then afterwards I made myself like the lily ten-tongued (but silent).
Like the violet I have let my head fall forward (in sorrow) from dearth of benefactors, and though like the lily I have ten tongues I am become dumb in thy praise.
I am suffering the punishment of my words, because in my lying flattery I have made every beggar a king, and have made the (worthless) Ladan into frankincense.
At one time I have proclaimed Suha superior in brilliancy to the moon,
At another I have scorned the river as being inferior to the drippings of a sieve.