[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) › 89.1 # سندبادنامه 89.1 English (machine translation) 89.1 - **Language:** English ### [89.1](https://indike.org/pramana/inf.isl.fa.qissa.sindbadnama~en-mt.89.1) One cannot lay hands on time; / the foot of life cannot stand firm. Hope is a fair-faced beauty; / it is not held in contempt in heart or eye. Live gladly, for at the wedding of death / the hue of many an adornment fades. Every day from the break of dawn until the descent of evening, and from the departure of darkness until the arrival of dusk, he sat upon the seat of redress, and spoke on the welfare of the realms. And when the pupil of the days was blackened with kohl by darkness, and the mirrors of the upper world were polished by the burnisher of the stars, he would sit with the intimates of the realm in private chambers and say: 'The skirt of the night of union, before the dawn of parting rises and the auspicious stars of youth set and disappear into the west of old age, must be held fast by the hand of joy. For whoever in the state of farewell does not recall the delight of meeting has no knowledge of the nearness or distance of the beloved, and retains no impression of union or separation:' - [Previous: 88.1](https://indike.org/pramana/inf.isl.fa.qissa.sindbadnama~en-mt.88.1) - [Next: 89.11](https://indike.org/pramana/inf.isl.fa.qissa.sindbadnama~en-mt.89.11) - [Up: 89](https://indike.org/pramana/inf.isl.fa.qissa.sindbadnama~en-mt.89) ## Linked texts (1) - [سندبادنامه](https://indike.org/pramana/inf.isl.fa.qissa.sindbadnama.89.1) — Ẓahīrī Samarqandī, Persian --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/inf.isl.fa.qissa.sindbadnama~en-mt.89.1](https://indike.org/pramana/inf.isl.fa.qissa.sindbadnama~en-mt.89.1) · Pramāṇa