سندبادنامه 381
English (machine translation) 381
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381.1
“Your promises are slow in this manner / because this wretched heart is held in your grasp.
You have slackened the rope of action / while today my affair has fallen into tight straits.”
And after performing the rites of homage and observing the conditions of prayer and praise, she unlocked her tongue
in grievance, described the endurance of hardships and ploys, and said: “May the majesty of the king of the world,
and the shadow of God’s glory—whose justice is the refuge of the distressed, and whose grace is the sanctuary
of the sorrowful—ever ascend and rise through the degrees of exaltation and the steps of eminence!
Ever has the king, acting in accordance with the well-wisher’s desire, held fast and clung to the rope of piety and certainty and the firm handle
of religion; and has been cloaked in the mantle of justice and adorned with the ornament of equity!
381.10
The slave-girl’s coming on the sixth day into the presence of the shah
And until this moment, every affair brought to execution by his decisive resolve,
and every judgment that took effect from his consummate intellect, observed and preserved the pleasure of God, praise be to Him
and exalted is He, and the quest for His good pleasure. Today,
under the incitement of a schemer and the instigation of a slanderer, he has abandoned the path of rectitude and correctness, set aside reverence
for the bounds of the Sharīʿa, spurned self-restraint and piety, thrown the dust
of abasement and contempt into the eyes of righteousness and propriety, admitted disorder and weakness into the foundations
of religion and the laws of equity, and rendered the garden of sovereignty vacant and bare of the rose-garden of punishment.
Tomorrow, when it is the place of display of the resurrection and the great terror and alarm, what proof will he bring for this negligence
and procrastination, and with what excuse will he advance? And what answer will he give to these words:
‘Each of you is a shepherd, and each of you is responsible for his flock’?
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- سندبادنامه — Ẓahīrī Samarqandī, Persian