سندبادنامه 137.1

137.1

The ignorant one does what the wise one does / only when he has thoroughly brought down disaster.
Every bad son who becomes good one day / becomes so only after he has thoroughly distressed his father.
And I have exposed my honor, which I kept beneath the garment of chastity and the dress of rectitude,
to public disgrace, turning myself into a target for the arrow of retribution and the dart of punishment, and I have contaminated and stained it with the filth
of inner corruption and the defilement of treacherous lust. If this matter