سندبادنامه 117.16

117.16

The shah's becoming disturbed and summoning Sindbād
the shadows of majesty and an increase of dignity! If there be leave, I shall present an offering of excuses in reply to this address."
They commanded: "Speak!" Sindbād said: "May it not remain hidden from the noble opinion of the great ones, who are
the stars of the sky of excellence and the sweet herbs of the garden of justice, that for this encomiast of the sublime realm
there is a manifest ocean in the branches of sciences and the varieties of wisdoms, and a sound judgment in testing vicissitudes,
and the span of [my] life has been spent in teaching and learning, and imparting and acquiring benefit.
Even if the outward form of this circumstance lies open to [the accusation of] remissness, I have permitted no remissness;
and every endurance and exertion that could be possible and conceivable, I have brought forward.
Yet without heavenly assistance and divine favor, the beauty of the desired fortune does not reveal its countenance through human artifice;
all kinds of contrivances align only with the illuminations of decrees, and the desired face does not lift the veil from the countenance of its existence:
"Not everyone who seeks finds, and not everyone who sets out returns;
and