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2569-2593

  • Verily, some suspicion is a sin, O Vizier: injustice is not right, especially (when it is done) to a poor man.
  • The king does not chastise one who vexes him: wherefore should he chastise one who makes him laugh?” 2570
  • The words of the Sáhib (vizier) impressed the king, and he resolved to clear up this deceit and imposture.
  • “Take Dalqak to prison,” he said, “and pay no attention to his wheedling and hypocrisy.
  • Beat him, empty-bellied like a drum (as he is), that like a drum he may give us information.
  • (Whether) the drum is wet or dry or full or empty, its sound informs us of everything.
  • (Beat him) in order that he may be compelled to declare the secret, so that these (apprehensive) hearts will be reassured. 2575
  • Since the shining truth is (a cause of) tranquillity, the heart will not be calmed by lying words.
  • Falsehood is like a (piece of stick or) straw, and the heart like a mouth: a straw never becomes (quietly) hidden in the mouth.
  • So long as it is there, he (who is annoyed by it) keeps moving his tongue, in order that thereby he may eject it from his mouth.
  • Especially, when a straw (blown) by the wind falls into the eye, the eye begins to water and shut and open.
  • We, therefore, now kick (out) this (man of) straw, in order that our mouth and eye may be delivered from (the disquiet caused by) this straw.” 2580
  • Dalqak said, “O King, be calm: do not scratch the face of clemency and forgiveness.
  • Why such an excessive haste to take revenge? I cannot fly away, I am in thy hand (power).
  • ’Tis not right to be hasty in (the case of) correction that is (inflicted) for God's sake;
  • (But as regards) that (of) which (the motive) is (ill) humour and casual anger, he (the corrector) is in a hurry (for fear) lest he should become content (reconciled).
  • He is afraid that, if contentment come and his anger go, his revenge and the pleasure of (taking) it will be lost. 2585
  • False appetite makes haste to (devour) the food for fear of missing the pleasure: that is sickness indeed.
  • (If) the appetite be true, ’tis better to delay, in order that it (the food) may be digested without difficulty.
  • Wilt thou beat me for the purpose of averting a (dreaded) calamity, to the end that thou mayst see the crevice and block it up,
  • So that the calamity will not issue from that crevice? Destiny hath many a crevice besides that one.
  • Violence is not the means of averting calamity: the means is beneficence and pardon and kindness. 2590
  • He (the Prophet) said, ‘Alms is a means of averting calamity: cure thy diseased ones by (giving) alms, O youth.’
  • ’Tis not alms-giving to burn a poor man (in the fire of anger) and to blind the eye that meditates on forbearance.”
  • The king replied, “Charity and the occasion for it are excellent (things), but (only) when you perform an act of charity in its (proper) place.