سندبادنامه 396

396.1

“Such are the nights and their occurrences: / they renew for man state after state.”
Yet the foundation of sincere friends’ faith rests on the inner thoughts of the heart and the rules of hidden secrets,
not upon outward appearances. Though the distance between them be from east to west,
they read the pages of the heart from one another’s scrolls of secrets by the light of the intellect’s purity, the nearness
of affection, and the union of souls; they see and know the hidden things in the casket of the heart and the contents of the chamber
of each other’s thoughts, and they recite: