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# سندبادنامه 83.1

سندبادنامه 83.1

- **Language:** Persian

### [83.1](https://indike.org/pramana/inf.isl.fa.qissa.sindbadnama.83.1)

علیک بالعدل إن ولیت مملکة وأحدر من الجور فیها غایة الخذر # فالملک ینق مع الکفر البهیم ولا یجق مع الجور فی بدو ولا حضر وهاتف حرکات روز وشب با او گفته : هر که در منصب پاذشاهی بمتابعت ملاعب وملاهی مشغول شوذ وبحکم نقصان عدل وخسران عقل از استعمال حلم وفضل مهحور مانذ چون برزگری بوذ کی تخم در زمین پرا کنذ ودر

> "You must observe justice if you govern a realm, / and beware of tyranny in it with the utmost caution.  
> For kingship endures with blatant unbelief, / but does not endure with tyranny in desert or settled land."  
> And the unseen herald of the movements of day and night said to him: "Whoever, in the office of kingship, becomes occupied with following  
> diversions and amusements, and through deficiency of justice and loss of intellect desists from using"  
> forbearing and virtue remains abandoned, is like a husbandman who scatters seed in the earth, and in  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

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## Translations (1)

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