سندبادنامه 394.22

394.22

The Coming of the Sixth Vizier before the Shah
The sixth resourceful vizier, renowned for his discernment, possessing sound judgment, and knowledgeable in statecraft,
went to the king, and after discharging the rituals of greeting and setting forth the requirements of service,
he said: “From the realm-conquering, luminous judgment that is the source of the heavenly bodies’ effusion
and the recourse for the beneficial effects of the celestial spheres, and unites within itself the acumen of Iyās, the shrewdness
of ʿAmr ibn al-ʿĀṣ, the cunning of al-Nuʿmān, and the mind of Luqmān, and is the solver
of difficult occurrences and the unknotter of calamitous knots, I find it astonishing that
in an event so clear and an occurrence so simple it should fall into error, and that the vain words
of a lying, deficient intellect should be able to veil its world-adorning sun of judgment;
such that he hastens toward a punishment so momentous without a clear proof or the manifestation of certainty,
and permits himself to plunge into so tremendous an event; and that in the measure of intellect and standard of reason, a child
for whom no replacement or substitute is possible,