[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) › 214 # سندبادنامه 214 English (machine translation) 214 - **Language:** English ### [214.1](https://indike.org/pramana/inf.isl.fa.qissa.sindbadnama~en-mt.214.1) "A hand that does not obey—that hand is best \[severed\]." And God the Exalted says: 'Perhaps you hate a thing and it is good for you; and perhaps you love a thing and it is bad for you.' When the shah heard these words and premises, he commanded that they punish the son. When news of the punishment reached the ears of the second vizier, he ordered the executioner: "Delay the killing until I see the shah and explain to him the benefits of abandoning haste." Arrival of the Second Vizier in the Presence of the Shah The second vizier, who had no second in knowledge, wisdom, skill, and competence, came before the court at the demand of his problem-solving judgment, and after performing the rites of service and the requirements of praise, laudation, and greeting, said: "Praise be to God the Exalted, the stars of the king's justice are piercing and ascendant from the horizon of the sky of deliberation, and all created beings are humble and obedient to the king's commands and prohibitions, and the far and the near in the shade of the favors of this state are at ease and blessed, safe from the poisonous winds of tyranny, the burning heat of calamities, and the fangs of the misfortunes of time; ### [214.15](https://indike.org/pramana/inf.isl.fa.qissa.sindbadnama~en-mt.214.15) and they remedy the venoms of the vipers of oppression with the antidote of the motives of equity, and the effect of the arrow of misfortune, loosed from the thumb-ring of the aim of time, remains ineffective against the shield of his majesty. The regions of the realm are secure, the classes of subjects are tranquil, and the varieties of tribulations and kinds of discord are stilled; the subjects are resting in the cradle of prosperity, and the weak under the shadow of care and benevolence. The kings of the horizons read the tablets of noble qualities at his fortified court and his lofty portal, and acquire light \[from it\]: ## Linked texts (1) - [سندبادنامه](https://indike.org/pramana/inf.isl.fa.qissa.sindbadnama.214.1) — Ẓahīrī Samarqandī, Persian --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/inf.isl.fa.qissa.sindbadnama~en-mt.214](https://indike.org/pramana/inf.isl.fa.qissa.sindbadnama~en-mt.214) · Pramāṇa