سندبادنامه 382

English (machine translation) 382

Language: English

382.1

‘If what our envier said gave you pleasure, / then a wound gives no pain when it satisfies you.
How much you seek a fault in us, while we disappoint you! / And God detests what you commit, as does nobility.’

382.4

19. The Story of the Thief, the Lion, and Ḥamdūna
And I fear that for the shah, from the counsel of his ministers, the same state of affairs will arise that befell
the lion from consulting Ḥamdūna; and upon his crooked-thinking, evil-counseling viziers the same calamity will descend
that befell Ḥamdūna through her obstinacy in opinion.” The king said, “How is that? Speak!”

382.8

19. The Story of the Thief, the Lion, and Ḥamdūna
The slave-girl said: May the just king endure, and the Khusraw of the seven climes in
dispensing justice and adorning the realm! It is related that in bygone ages and past
years and months, a party of caravanners halted at the gate of a caravanserai, and each engaged in what his present needs
required; and magnificent wealth and abundant goods were with that company.

382.13

Now in that caravanserai a destitute rogue dwelt. When he saw that equipment, gear, wealth, and possessions,
he set his heart on ambition that, when the world clad itself in a pitch-black cloak, he would cast himself into the caravan
and stretch out the hand of triumph to spoil; for such an opportunity only offers itself over a span of time,
and such a condition does not show its face in a year; and if negligence and remissness occur along the way,
the opportunity will be lost, and after the passing of moments, remorse will be of no avail, and regret
will bring no profit. When they dyed the yellow face and white hair of the horizons with soot,

382.20

19 Story of the Thief, the Lion, and Ḥamdūna
and the ropes of the tents of darkness were fastened by the tent-pegs of the fixed stars and planets, and the pavilion of the Khusraw
of the planets was taken down from the arena of the four pillars:

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سندبادنامه — Ẓahīrī Samarqandī, Persian