[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) › 93 # سندبادنامه 93 English (machine translation) 93 - **Language:** English ### [93.1](https://indike.org/pramana/inf.isl.fa.qissa.sindbadnama~en-mt.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: ## Linked texts (1) - [سندبادنامه](https://indike.org/pramana/inf.isl.fa.qissa.sindbadnama.93.1) — Ẓahīrī Samarqandī, Persian --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/inf.isl.fa.qissa.sindbadnama~en-mt.93](https://indike.org/pramana/inf.isl.fa.qissa.sindbadnama~en-mt.93) · Pramāṇa