سندبادنامه 123.1

123.1

همواره برین نهاذ بزدان عالمنکی زپس بذی وشاذی پس غم روی وموی در خاک مذلت مالیذ ، وگفت : پاذشاه اگر حقوق خدمت، وقدم عبودیت بنده را وزنی تمی دهذ ، وبر دل اطفال وعورات او کی یتیم وبیوه شوند تمی محشایذ، امروز ملوک عالم بعدل وانصاف او مثل می زند، ودستور منشور انصاف ومعدلت از دیوان جلال او می برید، ومشروح اقطاع ممالک عدل از کاتب کرم او می خواهند ، لایق عدل او نبوذ کی چنین سیاستی بی موجی بر بنده جائز شمرذ ، وموی اورا کی در امتداد مدت خدمت بیاض یافته است ، بخون خنجر خضاب کنذ . شاه گفت : جرمی ازین عظیم تر کذامست؟

The Creator of the world has always ordained this nature: / goodness after evil, and joy after sorrow.
He rubbed his face and hair in the dust of humiliation and said: If the king gives no weight to this servant's rights of service and long-standing
servitude, and takes no pity on the hearts of his children and women who will become orphans and widows,
yet today the kings of the world cite his justice and equity as a proverb, and derive the rule
and mandate of equity and justice from the chancery of his majesty, and seek the exposition of the fiefs of the realms
of justice from the scribe of his generosity. It is not worthy of his justice to deem such punishment
permissible against his servant without cause, or to dye his hair, which in the course of his service had turned white
has turned white in the long course of service, with the blood of the dagger!' The king said, 'What crime could be greater than this,