Story of the Jewish king who for bigotry's sake used to slay the Christians.
Amongst the Jews there was a king who wrought oppression, an enemy of Jesus and a destroyer of Christians.
’Twas the epoch of Jesus and the turn was his: he was the soul of Moses, and Moses the soul of him;
(But) the squint-eyed (double-seeing) king separated in the way of God those two Divine (prophets) who were (really) in accord (with each other).
The master said to a squint-eyed (pupil), “Come on; go, fetch that bottle out of the room.”
Said the squint-eyed one: “Which of the two bottles shall I bring to you? Explain fully.”
“There are not two bottles,” replied the master; “go, leave off squinting and do not be seeing more (than one).”
“O master,” said he, “don't chide me.” Said the master, “Smash one of those two.”
The bottle was one, though in his eyes it seemed two; when he broke the bottle, there was no other.
When one was broken, both vanished from sight: a man is made squint-eyed by (evil) propensity and anger.
Anger and lust make a man squint-eyed, they change the spirit (so that it departs) from rectitude.
When self-interest appears, virtue becomes hidden: a hundred veils rise from the heart to the eye.
When the cadi lets bribery gain hold of his heart, how should he know the wronger from the wretched victim of wrong?
The king, from Jewish rancour, became so squint-eyed that (we cry), “Mercy, O Lord, mercy (save us from such an affliction)!”
He slew hundreds of thousands of wronged (innocent) believers, saying, “I am the protection and support of the religion of Moses.”
