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بخش ۶ / Section 6

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می باید که شاه را منهیان راست کردار راست گفتار بر کار باشند که احوال رعایا و گماشتگان بر ایشان را به وی رسانند.
گویند اردشیر پادشاهی آگاه بود، و چون ندیمان بامداد بیامدندی بگفتی که فلان کس چه خورده است و با فلان زن یا کنیز صحبت داشته است و هر چه کرده بودی بگفتی تا مردمان گمان بردندی که مگر از آسمان به وی فرشته ای آید و آگاهی دهد و محمود سبکتگین نیز از این قبیل بوده است.

چو شاه را نبود آگهی ز حال سپاه
کجا سپاه ز قهر وی احتراز کنند

به قصد ظلم هزاران بهانه پیش آرند
به چنگ فسق هزاران ترانه ساز کنند

English translation

The king must have informants of upright conduct and truthful speech at their posts, so that they may convey to him the condition of the subjects and of the officials appointed over them. They say that Ardashir was a well-informed king, and when his companions came in the morning he would tell them what such-and-such a person had eaten, and with which woman or slave-girl he had kept company, and whatever they had done he would recount it, so that people supposed that perhaps an angel came to him from heaven and gave him knowledge. And Mahmud son of Sabuktigin was also of this sort. When the king has no awareness of the condition of the army, how would the army guard itself against his wrath? For the purpose of oppression they would bring forth a thousand pretexts, in the grip of debauchery they would compose a thousand tunes.

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