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# سندبادنامه 78.1

سندبادنامه 78.1

- **Language:** Persian

### [78.1](https://indike.org/pramana/inf.isl.fa.qissa.sindbadnama.78.1)

اگر شمایل حلمش ساذ برگذرذ دهذ شکوه تحلیش باذرا لنگر وگر فضایل طبعش بکوه برشمرید سک زخاصیتش کوه را بر آیذ پر مخالطت با حکمای فاضل وبدمای کامل داشت ، واتام واوقات با عقلای عالم وفضلای بی آدم گذاشت ، شهوات وهمات را طلاق داذه بوذ، ومحظورات ومحرمات را اطلاق فرموذه ، ساعات عمر بر استیفای خبرات مقصور کرده ، واوقات ایام بر استعمال حسنات موقوف گردانیذه ، وبیقین صادق واثق شذه کی متاع دنیا غرورست ومزخرفات ومموهات او خیال ناپای دار ، وعقل حاذق در گوش هوش او گفته :

> "If the qualities of his forbearance pass over the wind, / the majesty of his composure gives the wind an anchor;  
> And if one recounts the merits of his nature to a mountain, / from its power wings sprout upon the mountain."  
> He kept company with learned sages and accomplished scholars, and spent his days and hours with the intellectuals of the world  
> and the distinguished men among the children of Adam. He had divorced desires and base concerns, had forbidden  
> prohibited and unlawful things, had restricted the hours of his life to fulfilling good works,  
> and had dedicated the times of his days to practicing virtues. He was assured with sincere certainty  
> that the goods of the world are a deception, and its embellishments and false vanities a transitory illusion; and keen intellect  
> whispered in his attentive ear:  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

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## Translations (1)

- [English (machine translation)](https://indike.org/pramana/inf.isl.fa.qissa.sindbadnama~en-mt.78.1) — English, machine translation

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