سندبادنامه 147.1

147.1

چون این حرکات نامضبوط ، واین هذیانات نامربوط ، ازوی ظاهر گشت ، گمان مردم کی جنون بر دل وی مستولی شذه است ، وسودا بر مزاج او غالب گشته؛ چی هیچ صاحبمروت وفتوت از خرذ وحریت برین اقوال وافعال ذمیمه از عقل وفضل احازت ببینذ ، ودر شریعت کرم وانسانیت حایز نشمرذ ، وقدم جفا بر جمال چهرهآ دیانت ووفا ننهذ ، ودر حریم حرم پاذشاه این فاحشه روا ندارذ ، واز بهر استیلای شهوت ، واستعلای مهمت ، چنین تهمت 9 بر ذیل نام خوذ بندذ ، وسورت ببدیل دولت ، وآیت تحویل مملکت ، وزوال سلطنت، وهلا ک پاذشاهی کی ظل رحمت الهی است ، وپیرایهآ اقبال ، وسرمایةآ جلال ، ومواد تخفیف طوایف عالم ، وأصل عمارت ربع مسکون گیتی ، فضل 2 کامل ، وعدل شامل او از مصحف وهم وخیال برنخوانذ ، وبر صحیفهآ دل ننگارذ ؛ یس زلیخاوار گفت : ماحزاه من اراد بأهلک سوءا الا ان یسحن أو عذاب ألیم (12/25)

When these unrestrained actions and these disjointed ravings appeared from him,
I supposed that madness had taken possession of his heart and that melancholy had overcome his temperament;
for no possessor of manliness and chivalry, endowed with intellect and nobility, would see license for these reprehensible words and deeds
from wisdom and virtue, nor deem it permissible in the law of generosity and humanity,
nor set the foot of cruelty upon the fair visage of piety and fidelity, nor tolerate this obscenity in the royal harem,
nor, for the sake of the dominance of lust and the gratification of ambition, attach such an accusation to the hem of his own name,
nor read from the scripture of delusion and fancy the chapter of the overthrow of fortune, the verse of the transfer of dominion, the decline
of sovereignty, and the destruction of a king who is the shadow of divine mercy, the adornment of prosperity, the capital
of grandeur, the substance of relief for the classes of the world, and the foundation for the cultivation of the inhabited quarter of the earth, whose perfect grace
and all-embracing justice [sustain all], nor delineate it upon the page of the heart.'
Then, like Zulaykhā, she said: 'What is the recompense of him who intended evil to your wife, except that he be imprisoned
or suffer a painful punishment?' (12:25)