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176 Ayaz responded : MALAYAN LITERATURE " If they found some part in the lar- gesses which were given them, I found the author himself of those great gifts. If they found gold, I found the master of the gold. If others found silver, I found the master of silver. If others found precious stones, I found the master of precious stones. If others yet found some pearls, I found the ocean of pearls. Who, therefore, O king of the world, among all those who vaunt themselves as having luck, has more than I have?" " The Sultan : replied O Ayaz, tell me what is the meaning of your words. Where is all that which you say you found ? " Ayaz responded : " May the most high protect the person of the king of the world, more precious to me than all those objects of price ! In whatever place may be his august person, there I am, and I thus obtain all that my heart desires. When I am with your Majesty, and your Majesty is with me, what do I lack ? Who, then, has more luck than I have ? " One day the Sultan Alexander was plunged in sadness, and kept himself shut up in his palace. The wise Aristotle came before him, and seeing him absorbed in sad thoughts, asked him: " Why is the Sultan so sad and what keeps him from going out of his palace ? " " The Sultan Alexander answered : I am grieving at the thought of the smallness of this world, and of all the troubles I am giving myself and others for the sake of reigning over a world that is so little worth. It is the vanity of my works that renders me sad." " The reflection of the Sultan is just, for Aristotle replied : what, in truth, is the world? Certainly it has not enough importance by itself that the Sultan should occupy himself with a vain kingdom. But the government of this world is a mark of the sublime and eternal kingdom of the other world, and this kingdom the Sultan can obtain by governing this present world with justice. Your Majesty must therefore give all his cares to the government of this world, to obtain finally in the other world a kingdom of which the greatness is beyond measure and the duration is eternal." The Sultan Alexander heard with pleasure the words of his wise counsellor.
MAKOTA RADJA-RADJA 177 Two qualities are essential to kings, generosity and magnanimity. When a minister remarks, in his king, sentiments unworthy of his rank, he should warn him of the fact, and should turn him from unworthy actions. They tell that a king, having made a gift of 500 dirhems, his minister said to " I have heard from the mouth of wise men that it is him : not permitted to kings to make a present of less than " dirhems ! 1,000 One day Haroun-er-Raschid made a gift of 500 tahil. His minister, named Yahya, made by signs and by gestures every effort to prevent him from doing this. When all those who had been present were gone, Haroun-er-Raschid said : " O Yahya ! what were you trying to do with all your " signs ? " The latter : replied O prince of true believers ! I was trying to say that kings should never let it be seen that they are capable of making presents of less than 1,000 dirhems." One day King Mamoun-er-Raschid heard his minister, named Abbas, say to a servant, " Go to the bazaar and buy something with this half-tahil." Mamoun-er-Raschid was angry with him and said : " You are capable of dividing a tahil in two ! That is not proper in a minister; you are not worthy of the name," and he forth- with desposed him from office. In the Kitab Sifat-el-Molouk it is related that the King Chabour, giving his last instructions to his son, said as fol- " lows : O my son ! whenever you make a present to anyone, do not bestow it with your own hands. Do not even examine or have brought into your own presence the gifts that you make. Whenever you give a present, see that it be at least the equivalent of the revenue of a town in value, so that it will enrich the recipients, and make them and their children and grandchildren free from adversity. Furthermore, my child, beware all your life of giving yourself up to operations of commerce in your kingdom. For this kind of affairs is unworthy a king who has greatness of character, prosperity, and birth." King Harmuz received one day a letter from his minister in which he said : " Many merchants being in town with a great quantity of jewels, pearls, hyacinths, rubies, diamonds, IS
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