سندبادنامه 93

93.1

"He who does not journey equipped journeys with it, and he who does not sing solitarily sings of it."
The king—may he ever abide in the desire of his well-wisher!—is distressed within the sanctuary of this Iram, and
is pensive amid the thickets of this garden, and the traces of distress and pensiveness can be observed in his auspicious countenance, which is the page of prosperity
and the preface of glory. What is the cause of this distress and the motive of this
pensiveness? If he considers his servant a confidante, let him deign to inform her, so that in bearing the fatigue of that circumstance
she may fulfill the conditions of compliant obedience and the custom of supportive servanthood, and
may show obedience and compliance according to her ability and the measure of her strength, and wipe away the dust of sorrows and the rust
of cares from the surface of the mirror of his fragrant mind: