سندبادنامه 405.3

405.3

دوام سخن دستور سشم (2/14) این افسانه از بهر آن گفتم ، تا پاذشاه دانذ کی بدبیرهای زنان بی فایده ، ومشورتهای ایشان بی منفعت بوذ ؛ واکاذیب اقوال ، واباطیل افعال ایشان ، بی ضرر وزیان نباشذ ، وهر که قدم در بادیهٔ‌ هوای ایشان نهذ، هرگز بکعبهآ بجاح برسد وجمال فلاح بینذ ، وچهرهآ مطلوب در آبنهٔ‌ بجح مشاهده نکنذ ؛ وشاه دانذ کی نصایح بنده از سر اخلاص واختصاص می روذ ، ومواعظ او از کمال صفوت عقیدت روی می نمایذ ، چه مر بندگان مخلص را تقریر نصیحت از لوازم شریعت مروتست ، تا پاذشاه فرزیدی کی در صدف لطف ، وشرف قصر شرف شاه است ، بدست نهنگ تلف بدهذ ، وخوذرا در چنگ عقاب اسف نهذ :

Continuation of the Discourse of the Sixth Vizier
"I have told this tale so that the king may know that the plans of
women are devoid of benefit, and their counsels without advantage; and the falsehoods of their words and the vanities
of their deeds are never without harm and loss; and whoever sets foot in the desert of their passion
shall never reach the Kaaba of success nor behold the beauty of prosperity, nor witness the countenance of what is sought in the mirror of fulfillment; and the shah knows that the advice of this slave proceeds from pure sincerity and devoted loyalty,
he shall not witness; and the shah knows that the slave's counsels stem from sincere devotion and dedicated loyalty,
and his admonitions show their face from the perfection of a pure conviction, for upon
sincere servants the exposition of advice is among the requisites of the law of chivalry, lest the king
give over into the hand of the sea-monster of destruction a child who is in the oyster-shell of grace and the nobility of the castle of the shah's honor, and place himself in the talons of the eagle of grief:
give to the jaws of the crocodile of ruin, and cast himself into the talons of the eagle of sorrow: