LETTER CLXXI.

You should say to Hidáyat Alláh*, Zarrin Raquam*, to write in good hand the (following) quatrain in the letter to be sent to prince Muhammad Kám Bakhsha*. (Quatrain) “With my own two hands have I set fire to my own harvest. Why should I complain of my enemy? No one is my enemy. I myself am my own enemy. Woe to myself, to my hand, and to my skirt!”