سندبادنامه 77
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77.1
Thus, for the sake of the eternity of renown, the height of prestige, the loftiness of rank, and the elevation of station, I have displayed this
virgin bride and sent her to the exalted bedchamber and generous sanctuary of the master of the world.
May God the Exalted make it blessed and auspicious!
Now let us draw the reins of expression toward our objective, and from God the Exalted let us seek the aid of success
and guidance: He is indeed the Granter of success and the Helper.
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Beginning of the Book of Sindbād
(1/1) Thus relate the narrators of tradition and the masters of history: in past days
and former years, there was in the realm of Hindūstān a king named Kūrdīs, who had adorned the leaves
of the heights of sovereignty with praiseworthy moral virtues, and embellished the mantle of royal glories
with the vestiges of noble descent. His time was adorned with the beauty of justice,
and his qualities were renowned for perfection of excellence. His dominion was obeyed, his dignity commanding obedience; his reign was long
and his kingdom vast. The usurping hand of the envious and the aggression of the malicious were restrained and shortened from his kingdom,
and the eyes of corrupt ambitions of transgressors were covered and closed throughout his reign.
He was ever an adherent of justice and compliant with intellect, and he would listen to the traditions and accounts of the ancients, and their customs and ways.
The mention of his good nature and the renown of the obedience of his servants and retinue reached the hearing
of the rulers of the age, and the tongues of narrators and declarations of trustworthy witnesses brought the fame of the welfare of the subjects,
and the abundance and security of his territory, to the ears of humanity. From the dawn of youth, which is the prime of life
and the luster of existence, until the rising of the morning of grey hairs, which announces the farewell to life, he stepped
only in the highway of caring for subjects and the path of relieving and comforting the weak of the realm; and
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for the sake of acquiring wealth, he never set foot in the territory of sin and misfortune. He constantly focused
upon fulfilling the welfare of the subjects of the realm, and he rendered the land and sea of the kingdom prosperous through the dissemination of equity and the spread of justice. The people of his state called him the Greater Fortune of the realm
of Saturn.
The kings of all horizons appended his noble traits to the margins of their register of punishment,
and derived light from the virtues of his knowledge and the hallmarks of his forbearance; and in
his description and praise they said:
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- سندبادنامه — Ẓahīrī Samarqandī, Persian