traduza o texto completamente e perfeitamente para o portugues Ibne Babawiah narrates from Mohammed bin Zakaria that in the realm
of India there was a king who had sway over large areas and populations! He was fond of all carnal pleasures. He preferred the company of
sycophants. He hated those who gave sound advice. But, despite all
these, he excelled in governance and control of the affairs of the state. All
his subjects were obedient to the last man. With power and pelf, his
psyche was flying high! He was fully engrossed with his world of sins
and pleasures! The praises of the sycophants had made him more conceited! The king lacked only one thing. He had no son and successor to
his crown!
The Satan, taking pleasure from the ways of the king, egged him on to
the heights of sinful ways! He hated the pious persons. Idolatry was
rampant in his realm. One day he asked people about a person who was
considered the wisest in the realm. He asked them about the activities of
the person and told that he had an important task for the person. He was
told, “Your Majesty! The person is so sick of the world that he never stirs
out of his house!” Hearing this, the king was very angry. And ordered
his men to bring the man urgently to him.
The king, when the man was brought to him, tried much to convince
him to agree to adopt the ways desired by the king. When the man refused to acquiesce to the king’s suggestions, the king asked him, “Who
has advised you to be a recluse?” The man replied, “My conscience!” The
king said, “Your conscience has killed you! I therefore want to give a
punishment to your conscience that is meted out to a murderer!” The
man said, “I have very high expectations from your wisdom that you
will not make a verdict between us by yourself but you will appoint a
sagacious judge whose verdict would satisfy me!” The king asked, “Tell
me! Who could that judge be?” The man said, “I can depend on your
own wisdom for a fair judgement!” The king now said, “Tell me, what
you wish to say!”
The man said: I have heard a wise person say that a foolish person
thinks that a useless thing is very valuable and neglects the things that
have real value. Then he acquires and adopts the useless things. When I
heard this, I started running away from the most worthless thing, this
world! Now, in my view life is in death! Every thing including property,
health, illness, fame, power and pelf is just a transit towards death. O
King! This world is to be pitied! It makes a person the master and makes
278the same person a servant! It makes a person smile and the very next moment forces him to cry!
O King! You have said that shunning the world I have hurt my conscience and caused hardship to my dependents! It is, in fact, contrary to
what you think. It is for their love that I have put away wrong desires
and wishes. Now I can identify friends from foes!
O king! Among the horde of sycophants around you, none is your loyal friend! Everyone is after power and riches! If this realm, the wealth
and power is not with you, then you will not get any response from
them. The way I live, all the inmates of my surroundings are my friends.
Whatever I do, they follow suit. Whatever I say, they say too. I have not
shunned the world at the spur of a moment! I have done it after deep
thought!
I hope, O King, you will also benefit from my humble thoughts. The
king was furious hearing this advice from the man. The king ordered the
person to be exiled from his kingdom. He said that the person was misguided and was also misguiding his subjects in general.
Around that time a male child was born to the king. He was so overjoyed that he was close to dying with happiness overwhelming him! He
was convinced that the child was the reward for his idolatry. He spent
the entire wealth in the treasury on pomp and show. He ordered general
celebration in the realm for one year. He named his son as Yuzasaf. He
ordered all the astrologers in the country to the court and to make their
predictions about the child’s future. Excepting one astrologer, the rest
predicted that the child would be superior in wealth and fame in comparison to all the children born in that period. But the only astrologer,
who was held in very high esteem by the king for his expertise, predicted that the child will not only be superior in his wisdom but he will
excel in nobility and piety. In fact he would be the chief of pious people
in the realm.