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بخش ۴۰ - فی وصف‌الحال و تمام مدایح السلطان والوزراء والقضاة / Section 40 - On the Description of My State and the Completion of the Praises of the Sultan, the Ministers, and the Judges

Original content

چون از مدائح سلطان اعظم و شاهنشاه معظم اعزاللٰه انصاره طرفی گفته آمد نه در خور مناقب وی چه در خور طبع قاصر و رای رکیک من بندهٔ عاجز و چون بهمگی مناقب و خصال ستودهٔ وی پادشاه خلد اللٰه ملکه نتوانستیم رسیدن عجز پیش آوردیم (و طریق اقتصار و اختصار سپردیم) و همان گفتیم که مهتر عالم و سید کائنات «و سرور موجودات» صلی اللٰه علیه و آله و سلم در شب ملاقات در حضرت ربوبیت گفت لااحصی ثناء علیک انت کما اثنیت «علی نفسک» و بعد از آن به مناقب و فضائل وزراء و اصحاب قلم و شمائل قضاة و ائمهٔ دین کثرهم اللٰه انجامیدیم و این کتاب را به پایان آوردیم و از هریکی طرفی و شمتی درخور رای قاصر و رکاکت طبع بلید خویش گفتیم و از ایزد جل ذکره درخواسته می آید تا مگر از جملهٔ این ابیات یک بیت بر رای عالی اعلااللٰه پسندیده آید و محل قبول یابد که بدان یک بیت بندهٔ ضعیف با حکمای اولین و آخرین مفاخرت کند چنانکه گوید:از کبر من آسمان سای شود

English translation

Since a portion of the praises of the greatest Sultan and the magnificent King of Kings—may God strengthen his victories—has been spoken, not as is worthy of his noble virtues, but rather as is suited to the deficient nature and feeble judgment of myself, a helpless servant; and since we could not fully encompass all the virtues and praised traits of this king—may God eternalize his kingdom—we acknowledged our helplessness (and took the path of brevity and conciseness), and we said only that which the Master of the World, the Lord of all Beings, and the Leader of all Creations—may God bless him and his family and grant them peace—said on the night of meeting in the Divine Presence: 'I cannot enumerate Your praise; You are as You have praised Yourself'; and after that, we proceeded to the virtues and merits of the ministers and the men of the pen, and the qualities of the judges and leaders of the religion—may God multiply them—and brought this book to an end; and of each, we spoke a portion and a fragment in accordance with our deficient judgment and the weakness of our dull nature; and it is requested of God—exalted be His mention—that perhaps, out of all these verses, a single verse may be pleasing to his exalted judgment—may God elevate it—and find acceptance, so that through that single verse, this weak servant may boast against the sages of the past and the future, as he says:

Through my pride, my head shall scrape the sky.

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