سندبادنامه 184
English (machine translation) 184
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184.1
As if the stars of the night feared its raid, / so it spread a veil of dust over it.
The man said: 'O parrot, have you perhaps gone mad, or has your brain suffered an impairment?
It has become as clear to me as day that you have been measuring the wind and crushing a hollow nut!
And if—God forbid!—you had concocted a few words of falsehood and arranged a few idle tales,
the affair between me and my lawful wife would have ended in divorce and separation, and the affairs of my livelihood
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and bed would have fallen to pieces through your stirring of discord and confusion, and my wife, who in piety and chastity
is Fāṭima al-Zahrāʾ and Khadīja the Great, would have been tainted by the foulest filth through your delirious ravings and nonsense!
Whoever relates such words by deceit and fabrication, by the decree of the Sharīʿa,
the shedding of his blood is lawful, and by the dictates of penal justice and regard for chivalry,
the destruction and ruin of his person is obligatory, so that henceforth you will not give me a headache at every moment,
nor bring to my ear a lie whose recounting wounds nature and hearing,
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- سندبادنامه — Ẓahīrī Samarqandī, Persian