Book I Verses 186 to194


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The Story: How the king sent messengers to Samarcand to fetch the goldsmith. Verses: (186-221)
This Story contains two episodes:

  • The much wealth, (Verses 186-194)
  • Life-giving wine, (Verses 195-221)

The First Episode: The much wealth, Verses 186-194
The author and the poet of the stories and poems in Persian: Jalāl ad-Dīn Muhammad Balkhī
Translator: Reynold Alleyne Nicholson
The commentary of some parts of the poems in Persian is taken from the scholars
of Persian literature:
Badiozzaman Forouzanfar and Karim Zamani
Translator of commentaries: Zeynab Serahati
Narrator and Producer: Zeynab Serahati
Music by: Salar Aghili

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  • The much wealth

186- To Samarkand came the two messengers for the goldsmith debonair and wanton,
187- Saying, “O fine master, you are perfect in knowledge, the quality of perfection in your craft is famous in all the lands,
188- Lo, such-and-such a king has chosen you for your skill in the goldsmith's craft, because you are eminent.
189- Look now, receive this robe of honor and gold and silver; when you come to the king, you will be a favorite and boon-companion.”
190- The man saw the much wealth and the many robes, he was beguiled, he parted from his town and children.
191- Blithely the man came into the road, unaware that the king had formed a design against his life.
192- He mounted an Arab horse and sped on joyously, what really was the price of his blood he deemed a robe of honor.
193- O fool, who with a hundred consents, yourself with your own foot did enter on the journey to the fated ill!
194- In his fancy (were dreams of) riches, power, and lordship. whereas the Angel of Death said to him, “Go your way. Yes, you will get the covetousness and greed!”

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