بخش 138 - رجوع کردن بدان قصه کی شاه‌زاده بدان طغیان زخم خورد از خاطر شاه پیش از استکمال فضایل دیگر از دنیا برفت

Abridge the tale: after a year (had passed) the indignation of that jealous one (the King of China) brought him (the prince) to the grave.

When the King emerged from the state of self-effacement (mahw) into consciousness, (he found that) his martial eye had wrought that bloodshed.

When the peerless (King) looked at his quiver he perceived that one arrow was missing from his quiver.

He said (to himself), “Where is that arrow?” and requested God (to inform him). He (God) replied, “In his (the prince's) throat, for ’tis by thy arrow (that he has been slain).”

The King, whose heart was like an ocean, pardoned him; but, alas, the arrow had struck a vital spot.

He was slain, and the King wept in mourning for him, (for) he (the King) is all: he is both the slayer and the next of kin;

For if he be not both, then he is not all; (but) he is both the slayer of people and a mourner (for them).

(Meanwhile) the pale-cheeked martyr was thanking (God) that it (the arrow) had smitten his body and had not smitten that which is real.

The visible body is doomed to go at last, (but) that which is real (the pure spirit) shall live rejoicing for ever.

If that punishment was inflicted, yet it fell only on the skin: the lover went unscathed to the Beloved.

Although he laid hold of the Emperor's saddle-strap, (yet) in the end he was (only) admitted (to union with his Beloved) by the eye whose glances kill.

And the third (brother) was the laziest of the three: he won (the prize) completely—the form (appearance) as well as the reality.