[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) › 367 # سندبادنامه 367 English (machine translation) 367 - **Language:** English ### [367.1](https://indike.org/pramana/inf.isl.fa.qissa.sindbadnama~en-mt.367.1) "For often a firebrand has burned down a city." And despite the spark of fire having as its cause the friction of a fire-stick and the rubbing of a flint, when it comes forth from the concealment of nonexistence into the open space of manifestation and being, it turns iron into wax and stone into water. By this measure and rule, trivial incidents that are held in contempt, and a weak enemy who is deemed negligible, their outcomes become momentous, and lead to perplexing affairs and grave difficulties, such that remedying them cannot be contained in speech and mouth, and the mind's grasp falls helpless before redressing them: ## Linked texts (1) - [سندبادنامه](https://indike.org/pramana/inf.isl.fa.qissa.sindbadnama.367.1) — Ẓahīrī Samarqandī, Persian --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/inf.isl.fa.qissa.sindbadnama~en-mt.367](https://indike.org/pramana/inf.isl.fa.qissa.sindbadnama~en-mt.367) · Pramāṇa