[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) › 282.1 # سندبادنامه 282.1 English (machine translation) 282.1 - **Language:** English ### [282.1](https://indike.org/pramana/inf.isl.fa.qissa.sindbadnama~en-mt.282.1) Today the world must be consumed like sugar; / a day will come when one must eat one's own liver. The Satan of her soul inciting to evil said to her: Seize the spring of youth as a boon before the autumn of old age withers the pomegranate-flower of the cheek, the pomegranate turns to quince, the Judas-tree blossom becomes fenugreek, the conjurer of time scatters powdered amber over the cheek's lovely rose, the phlebotomist of bodily weakness opens the basilic vein of sight, the saffron of pallor overcomes the oxymel of soothing, and before the pitch-black garment is exchanged for the poverty of gray hair, the sun of youth remains veiled in the clouds of whiteness, the beauty of the fortune of life sets foot in the stirrup of decline, and "Gray hair is all a blemish" reveals its face from behind the veils of the unseen: - [Previous: 281.2](https://indike.org/pramana/inf.isl.fa.qissa.sindbadnama~en-mt.281.2) - [Next: 283.1](https://indike.org/pramana/inf.isl.fa.qissa.sindbadnama~en-mt.283.1) - [Up: 282](https://indike.org/pramana/inf.isl.fa.qissa.sindbadnama~en-mt.282) ## Linked texts (1) - [سندبادنامه](https://indike.org/pramana/inf.isl.fa.qissa.sindbadnama.282.1) — Ẓahīrī Samarqandī, Persian --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/inf.isl.fa.qissa.sindbadnama~en-mt.282.1](https://indike.org/pramana/inf.isl.fa.qissa.sindbadnama~en-mt.282.1) · Pramāṇa