سندبادنامه 245.1

245.1

یا أعدل الناس إلا فی معاملت فیک الخصام وانت الخصم والحکخم حضرت شاه را بذین اسم موسوم بتوان کردن ، اما دستوران بی عاقبت ، ابر وار ییش آفتاب عدل او حجاب گشته اند ؛ وظلمی شنیع ، وجوری .5 عظیم ، کی از فرزند شاه برین بنده رفت ، موجب بذنامی اسلاف واعقاب او خواهذ بوذ . اما پاذشاه عادل تحریض وتحریک ساعی نمام ، وشریر کذاب فتان ، انصاف بنده نمی فرمایذ ، وگمان برم کی مثل شاه با وزیران او هم چنانست کی شاه کرمان را بوذ با وزیر . شاه برسیذ : چگونه یوذ ؟ باز گوی !

"O most just of men, except in treating me: / in you is the dispute, and you are the adversary and the judge!"
The shah's presence may well be designated by this title; but counselors lacking foresight
have become a veil before the sun of his justice, like a cloud; and a heinous oppression and a great
tyranny, which was visited upon this slave by the shah's son, will bring ill repute upon his forebears and his descendants.
Yet the just king, through the instigation and incitement of the slandering backbiter and the wicked,
lying fomenter of discord, does not command equity for this slave; and I suspect that the shah's case with his viziers
is just like that of the king of Kirmān with the vizier." The shah asked: "How
was that? Relate it!"