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# Basatin al-uns 69.55

Basātīn al-uns 69.55

- **Language:** Persian

### [69.55](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.adab.basatin-al-uns.69.55)

ندیم گفت: وزیر را با این لباس غیرمعهود بیرون گذاشتن از صواب بعید مینماید زیرا که اکثر خلایق را نظر بر ظاهر احوال باشد و اگر چیزی خلاف معتاد مشاهده کند به حسب رای رکیک خویش قیاسات فاسد انگیزند تا بدین موجب آوازهای دروغ در اطراف و اکناف شایع گردد و بسا باشد سیب ظهور فتنه و حدث حوادث شود، اما طایفهای که برای روش و تدبیر متین و حزم کامل و دهاء شامل موصوف باشند و طبع وقاد ایشان بهقیاسات صحیح از وقایع و اخبار فردا امروز اعلام و اخبار کند و در مبانی استدلال ایشان بههیچ نوع خللی راه نیابد، بهسان ماه و آفتاب قلیا العدد و الحساباند، و فساد و ابطال امور از آن طایفه چون صلاح مصالح از طبقهآ عوام چشم نتوان داشت، پس بههمه حال پادشاهان را کارهای اساس میباید نهاد که بر انتظام احوال عوام که کثرت ایشان چون قلت خواص به حکم مشاهده ثابت و معلوم است مشتمل باشد. پادشاه فرمود تا وزیر را طلب کردند، چون او را بدید رعایت طرف توقیر و تعظیم او از کیفیت پرداخت مصالح پرسید، وزیر گفت:

> The boon-companion said: "To leave the vizier outside in this unaccustomed attire seems far from prudence, for  
> most creatures look only to the external appearance of conditions, and if they witness something contrary to custom, in accordance with their own shallow  
> judgment they stir up corrupt conjectures, so that by this cause false rumors are spread in all quarters and directions,  
> and often it becomes the cause of the emergence of strife and the occurrence of calamities. But the class who are characterized by a sound method, firm deliberation,  
> perfect prudence, and comprehensive cunning, and whose fiery intellect, through correct deductions, makes known and reveals  
> the events and reports of tomorrow today, and in the foundations of whose reasoning no flaw finds a way in any manner,  
> are, like the moon and the sun, few in number and count; and corruption and the ruin of affairs can no more be expected from that class than the right arrangement of  
> interests can be expected from the common populace. Therefore, in every state, sovereigns must establish foundations for affairs  
> that encompass the order of the conditions of the common people, whose abundance—like the scarcity of the elite—is established and known by the decree of observation."  
> The sovereign ordered the vizier to be summoned. When he saw him, observing the side of respect and  
> honor toward him, he asked about the manner of discharging the affairs. The vizier said:  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

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## Translations (1)

- [English (machine translation)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.adab.basatin-al-uns~en-mt.69.55) — English, machine translation

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