سندبادنامه 366
English (machine translation) 366
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"When a man's mantle is not pure, / alas, no washer can cleanse it with water."
(3/10) I have told this story so that it may be established for the king's world-adorning judgment
that the wile of women is beyond limit and count, and their tricks and works exceed restriction
and reckoning. When the secret of this tale—whose content is the index
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The Coming of the Slave-Girl on the Fifth Day to the King's Presence
of wile and the code of deceit—reached the king's ear, he commanded that the prince be taken to prison,
and they delayed the punishment.
The Coming of the Slave-Girl on the Fifth Day to the King's Presence
(1/11) When the turn of the cycle of days arrived at the fifth day, the clamor of the woman's cries for help
reached the ears of the stars. She said to herself: "If I permit any delay or neglect in this matter,
the prince will unlock his tongue and exert every effort in tearing this veil and uncovering
this secret. And because the company of viziers show total exaggeration in taking his part,
and have boundless favor [toward him], relying upon this support and reinforcement they will strive for my destruction
and execution, and will depict and set forth in the king's hearing the welfare of religion and state.
Today I will shoot every arrow I have in my quiver, and play every trick I know."
Then, with wailing and lamentation, sorrow and sighing, she went into the king's presence,
and after offering service, kissing the dust of the threshold, and delivering praise and greeting,
she said: "May the sun of the king's judgment never suffer darkness from the judgment of the unjust viziers, nor the eye of his equity
suffer blindness from the impacts of the thorn of misfortunes! Although the king does not cast a glance of favor upon the complaint of this pitied victim,
and, because of the concoction of false speeches by the viziers, does not grant equity to this
longstanding servant who has grown up in the sanctuary of this realm,
and gives no weight to this dreadful event, and holds this momentous disaster small and contemptible,
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The Coming of the Slave-Girl on the Fifth Day to the King's Presence
[she] reckons, and proceeds according to his sun-like judgment, which directs the welfare of the affairs of the world
and of worldly beings, yet does not reflect, though knowing that trivial matters
become grave over time, and small concerns grow vast with delay—like a spark of fire that
consumes the firewood of a world and turns a realm to nothingness:
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- سندبادنامه — Ẓahīrī Samarqandī, Persian