Circumstance of my friends indiscretion

One of them jellied, “O God, what a hard saying is this! If you seat yourself on my head and eyes, I admit your gallantry, for you are amiable.” Summarily I seated myself, and conversed on various subjects, till the circumstance of my friend’s indiscretion was brought in. I asked, “What fault was discovered by my most bountiful lord that should have rendered his servant hateful in his sight? To God alone belongeth perfect greatness and benignity, who discovered the crime, and yet withh oldeth not daily bread.”

The great man approved of this speech, and ordered that my friend’s stipend should be restored and the arrears discharged. I praised his generosity, made obeisance, and apologized for my boldness; and at the time of taking leave, made the following observation: “Because the temple of Mecca is the bestower of our wants, multitudes resort to it from many farsangs; you must therefore suffer the importunity of such as myself, since no one flings a stone into a tree that hath no fruit.”

TALE XVIII

A prince inherited from his father abundance of wealth. He opened the hand of liberality, and bestowed innumerable largesse’s and gifts on his troops and subjects.

No odor issues from a tray made of lignum aloes: place it on the fire that it may diffuse fragrance like ambergris. If you wish to be esteemed magnificent, be bountiful; for grain groweth not unless it be scattered bulgaria tours. One of the courtiers inconsiderately began his admonition, saying, that “Former monarchs accumulated this treasure with labour, and stored it up against a time of need, therefore restrain your liberality, for events being in front and enemies on the rear, you must not deprive yourself of resources against the time of necessity.

If you were to lavish your treasure on the multitude, each head of a family would not receive more than a grain of rice for his share: why do you not exact a grain of silver from each individual, which will produce you a treasure daily? ” The prince looked displeased at this discourse, so contrary to his own sentiments, and he said, “The eternal and Almighty God has made me King of these nations, that I might enjoy and distribute; I am not a sentinel to watch the treasure.”

Karoon, who had forty chambers full of treasure, was destroyed; but Nowshirvan died not, having left an immortal name.

They have related that Nowshera, being at a hunting seat, was about to have some game dressed, and as there was not any salt, a servant was sent to fetch some from a village; when tile monarch ordered him to pay the price of the salt, that the exaction might not become a custom, and the village be desolated. They say to him, “From this trifle welt injury can ensue? ” He replied, “Oppression was brought into the world from small beginnings, which every new comer has increased, until it has reached the present degree of enormity. If the monarch were to eat a single apple from the garden of a peasant, the servants would pull up the tree by the roots; and if the Sultan orders five eggs to be taken by force, his soldiers would spit a thousand fowls. The iniquitous tyrant remained not, but the curses of mankind rest on him for ever.”