سندبادنامه 415
English (machine translation) 415
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415.1
I hold absence better than that moonlike face; / I hold your life dear with tender care.
Then she asked: "What is the cause of this dispute and the reason for this altercation? For whom is this torment
and severity meant?" The draper's wife opened her tongue in complaint, gave an account of what had happened,
and said: "O mother, however much I apply my mind, nothing becomes known
it does not become known what his reason and motive was in this frantic behavior, that without any apparent offence
or known crime he decreed this concerning me, inflicted so many hardships upon me, and made [such harsh] demands.
And I do not know myself to have given premise to any suspicion, or to have caused any betrayal or distrust,
that would warrant this reproach, punishment, threat, and severity. All manner of
imaginations and apprehensions pass through my mind, but nothing is verified or confirmed.” The old crone said:
415.10
“Every affair has an end, and every pain has a remedy. In such-and-such a place there is a learned sage
and an expert astrologer who knows well the science of astrology, the reckoning of almanacs, geomancy, and charms(?),
and gives report of the hidden things of the mind and the secrets of the heart. What is unseen he knows, and what is unheard
415.14
21 The Tale of the Old Crone, the Young Man, and the Draper’s Wife
he recites; he speaks of hidden and unseen matters, and reveals secrets and consciences.
Whosoever in this city encounters an important crisis or a grave calamity, by the purity
of his luminous judgment he unravels that knot and resolves that intractable problem; and in
love and enmity, binding and loosing, incantations and talismans, he possesses the White Hand and the breath of the Messiah,
so that by incantation he brings fish out of the sea and brings birds down from the air.” She produced so many of these
specious nonsense and fraudulent embellishments that the woman agreed
to go at once and see him. The old crone said, “Wait, so that I may look into it
and see whether he is present at home or not!” Then she went to the
young man and said, “Be ready for the attainment of your goal and the arrival of your beloved:
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- سندبادنامه — Ẓahīrī Samarqandī, Persian