[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Foreign](https://indike.org/pramana/inf) › [Islamic world](https://indike.org/pramana/inf.isl) › [Persian](https://indike.org/pramana/inf.isl.fa) › [Story books adapted from India](https://indike.org/pramana/inf.isl.fa.qissa) › [سندبادنامه](https://indike.org/pramana/inf.isl.fa.qissa.sindbadnama) › 293.3 # سندبادنامه 293.3 سندبادنامه 293.3 - **Language:** Persian ### [293.3](https://indike.org/pramana/inf.isl.fa.qissa.sindbadnama.293.3) آمذن کنیزک روز چهارم بحضرت شاه (3/8) این افسانه از بهر آن گفتم ، تا رأی اعلی شاه از بدیههآ فکر ، واندازهآ غدر زنان غافل بمانذ ، وبقول ایشان بر چنین سیاستی هایل اقدام جایز ببینذ، کی تدارک آن ممکن نبوذ ، ودر دنیا وعقبی ملوم د ومعاقب ، ومذموم ومخاطب گردذ. شاه چون این مقدمات بشنوذ ، مثال داذ تا شاه زاذه را بحبس بردید ، وسیاست در تأخیر نهاذند امذن کنیز ک روز چهارم بحضرت شاه (1/9) چون مدت این حادبه بروز چهارم کشیذ ، وسه روز متواتر وزرای پاذشاه ، کی اکابر دولت ، واماثل حضرت وذند، بلطایف حکم، وتوادر مواعظ ، در ابقای مهحت شاه زاذه چند ساذه از داستان دستان زنان برنطع سمع شاه راندد، وکنیز ک هر فرزینبند کی دانست می کرد ، وهر منصوبه کی شناخت می ساخت ، تا شاه زاذه را شهمات کنذ ، اما وزرای مملکت هریک فرزیی فرزانه ، وصاحب کفایتی یگانه بوذند ، بانوار مصابیح 4 علم وعقل ظلام آن ظلم دفع می کردند ، وشرر آتش خشم شاه را باب رأی صواب از سوختن خرمن مصالح دین ودولت اطفا می داذند ، وصفرای حادیه را کی بیرقان ابطال شخص شاه زاذه متعدی بوذ ، بسکنگبین حکمت « تسکین می کردند : > The Coming of the Slave-Girl on the Fourth Day before the Shah > "I related this tale so that the Shah's sublime judgment should not remain negligent of the impetuousness of reflection and the extent of women's treachery, > nor consider it permissible, on their word, to embark upon such a terrible punishment, > whose remedy would be impossible, and in this world and the hereafter he would become blamed and punished, censured and called to account." When the king heard these premises, he ordered > that the prince be taken back to prison and that the punishment be postponed. > The Coming of the Slave-Girl on the Fourth Day before the Shah > The Coming of the Slave-Girl on the Fourth Day before the King > When the duration of this misfortune reached the fourth day, and for three consecutive days the viziers > of the king, who were the grandees of the state and the peers of the court, through subtle wisdom and rare > admonitions had played several matches from the tales of women's wiles on the carpet of the king's hearing to preserve the prince's life; and the slave-girl was executing every queen-mate she knew and making every > chess-stratagem she recognized to checkmate the prince; however, the viziers > of the realm were each a wise queen and an unmatched administrator; by the lights of the lamps > of knowledge and intellect they dispelled the darkness of that injustice, and with the water of sound judgment > they quenched the sparks of the fire of the king's wrath from consuming the harvest of the welfare of religion and state; and the bile > of the calamity, which was intent on the destruction of the prince's person through jaundice, they soothed with the oxymel of wisdom: > the fever that raged toward the destruction of the prince's person, with the oxymel of wisdom— > "Whenever their opinions shine forth in a calamity, / they decree that the veils of the calamity be torn away." > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) - [Previous: 293.1](https://indike.org/pramana/inf.isl.fa.qissa.sindbadnama.293.1) - [Next: 294.1](https://indike.org/pramana/inf.isl.fa.qissa.sindbadnama.294.1) - [Up: 293](https://indike.org/pramana/inf.isl.fa.qissa.sindbadnama.293) ## Translations (1) - [English (machine translation)](https://indike.org/pramana/inf.isl.fa.qissa.sindbadnama~en-mt.293.3) — English, machine translation --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/inf.isl.fa.qissa.sindbadnama.293.3](https://indike.org/pramana/inf.isl.fa.qissa.sindbadnama.293.3) · Pramāṇa