سندبادنامه 311.5

311.5

The Coming of the Fourth Vizier into the Shah's Presence
deprived." When the shah heard this tale, and saw the supplication and tears of the chaste woman,
he ordered the prince to be subjected to punishment.
When the fourth vizier knew that the shah had commanded the punishment of the son, he said to the executioner:
"Hold the punishment in abeyance until I go into the presence of the shah and demonstrate the harm of haste
and the benefit of postponing the punishment, so [we may see] what manner of command issues forth."
The Coming of the Fourth Vizier into the Shah's Presence
The fourth vizier, who possessed splendid excellence and widespread fame, went to the shah,
and after reinforcing praise and spreading supplications, he opened his tongue and said: "God, praised and exalted be He,
has made the coat of kingship and the mantle of emperors the ornament of the states and the adornment of the deeds and acts
of the king, and has made the verses of his praiseworthy traits and the suras of his laudation current in tongues and mouths,
and inscribed; and the fame of his benefactions which he dispenses regarding the masters of excellence and the possessors of intellect
has reached the corners of the world and the regions of the Arabs and the Persians; and the ears of the far and near have heard the mention of his justice
and the fame of his virtue; and the rose-garden of the bounty of his justice has blossomed so that
all the gales of the autumn of oppression and the blowing of the cold winter blast of tyranny
will not strip the freshness of its leaves from the meadow of the horizons; and the market
of his noble traits of character has achieved such currency and circulation that through the adverse turns of vicissitudes