[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Foreign](https://indike.org/pramana/inf) › [Islamic world](https://indike.org/pramana/inf.isl) › [Persian](https://indike.org/pramana/inf.isl.fa) › [Story books adapted from India](https://indike.org/pramana/inf.isl.fa.qissa) › [سندبادنامه](https://indike.org/pramana/inf.isl.fa.qissa.sindbadnama) › [English (machine translation)](https://indike.org/pramana/inf.isl.fa.qissa.sindbadnama~en-mt) › 48 # سندبادنامه 48 English (machine translation) 48 - **Language:** English ### [48.1](https://indike.org/pramana/inf.isl.fa.qissa.sindbadnama~en-mt.48.1) The one who ordered these preliminaries and penned these words, Muḥammad ibn ʿAlī ibn Muḥammad ibn al-Ḥasan al-Ẓahīrī al-Kātib al-Samarqandī, says: Since this servant always felt the utmost longing and desire to serve the lofty threshold of this empire and to gain access to the secure courtyard of this presence, and spent his days awaiting this wish and occupying himself with attaining this desire, and was watchful for good fortune and on the lookout for an opportunity, hoping that perhaps time would assist in obtaining this blessing, and fortune would indulge in granting this request, yet time itself showed obstinacy and kept the beauty of the bride of this desire veiled behind obstacle, and inscribed the verses and tokens of these favours with the pen of neglect upon the folio of disregard and idleness, and addressed me in the manner of reproach, reciting this verse: ### [48.10](https://indike.org/pramana/inf.isl.fa.qissa.sindbadnama~en-mt.48.10) \[...\] ## Linked texts (1) - [سندبادنامه](https://indike.org/pramana/inf.isl.fa.qissa.sindbadnama.48.1) — Ẓahīrī Samarqandī, Persian --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/inf.isl.fa.qissa.sindbadnama~en-mt.48](https://indike.org/pramana/inf.isl.fa.qissa.sindbadnama~en-mt.48) · Pramāṇa