سندبادنامه 133
English (machine translation) 133
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133.1
Where you are not, what use is my life? / And here where you have come, what business have I with my life?'
The prince said: 'Violating the father's harem and turning one's attention to the ladies of the bridal chambers is not fitting for the generosity
and chivalry of men; and no rational person makes himself deserving of punishment and worthy of reproach for the sake of fulfilling desire
and gratifying lust, nor does he deem it lawful to venture upon the commission of a forbidden act,
or place the foot of treachery upon the face of chastity and piety, or [pour out] the honor of traditional custom and manhood.'
and shed the honor of the sunna, chivalry, the Sharīʿa, and generosity, nor invalidate a truth for the sake of fleeting vanity. If I
say a single word in these seven days, it will be the cause of my destruction and ruin. For this reason, the steed
of speech has no room to gallop in the field of the present state. When the days of ill omen and the hours
of adversity have passed and parted, the punishment for this impiety, the retribution for these rights,
and the chastisement for this hypocrisy and defiance that you brought into the open, defiling the beauty of chastity with the mole
of treachery, will come forward:
133.13
The slave-girl contemplates a plan for the killing of the prince
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- سندبادنامه — Ẓahīrī Samarqandī, Persian