[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Foreign](https://indike.org/pramana/inf) › [Islamic world](https://indike.org/pramana/inf.isl) › [Persian](https://indike.org/pramana/inf.isl.fa) › [Story books adapted from India](https://indike.org/pramana/inf.isl.fa.qissa) › [سندبادنامه](https://indike.org/pramana/inf.isl.fa.qissa.sindbadnama) › [English (machine translation)](https://indike.org/pramana/inf.isl.fa.qissa.sindbadnama~en-mt) › 185.21 # سندبادنامه 185.21 English (machine translation) 185.21 - **Language:** English ### [185.21](https://indike.org/pramana/inf.isl.fa.qissa.sindbadnama~en-mt.185.21) Story of the Master of the House with the Woman and the Parrot and skill, loses the thread of sagacity in the riddle of women's wiles! If you wish the reality of this state of affairs to be disclosed and verified for you, send the mistress of the house out of the home on some pretext, and command the chastisement and interrogation of a servant-girl who is an intimate of the house, a confidante of the dwelling, and a trusted keeper of secrets, so that she tells whatever has transpired, and this veil may be lifted from before it.' In accordance with his sound advice, the man entered the house, that the veil be lifted from before it. According to his approval, the man entered the house, carried out this resolution, and presented threats and severe pressure to the servant-girl who was the companion of intimacy and the repository of the woman's secrets. She stated whatever had happened in detail and in summary, explaining it from beginning to end; and the beauty of the face of the bride of certainty emerged all the more beautifully from the veil of doubt and suspicion, and it became known that the parrot had been innocent like Joseph’s wolf, and like the she-camel of Ṣāliḥ had without any guilt become food for the sword; and that what had been executed and carried out in its regard was pure oppression and sheer injustice, and immediately the penalty for that evil consequence had to be faced, and the retribution for that unbridled impulse had to be borne; and that what he had done had proceeded from haste, the prevailing whispering of Satan, and the phantasm of the deluding concupiscent soul. Bewilderment and grief overcame him, and anguish and agitation appeared; tears of regret poured from his eyes onto the surface of his cheeks, and out of grief and sorrow he would say: - [Previous: 185.20](https://indike.org/pramana/inf.isl.fa.qissa.sindbadnama~en-mt.185.20) - [Next: 185.38](https://indike.org/pramana/inf.isl.fa.qissa.sindbadnama~en-mt.185.38) - [Up: 185](https://indike.org/pramana/inf.isl.fa.qissa.sindbadnama~en-mt.185) ## Linked texts (1) - [سندبادنامه](https://indike.org/pramana/inf.isl.fa.qissa.sindbadnama.185.21) — Ẓahīrī Samarqandī, Persian --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/inf.isl.fa.qissa.sindbadnama~en-mt.185.21](https://indike.org/pramana/inf.isl.fa.qissa.sindbadnama~en-mt.185.21) · Pramāṇa