traduza o texto completamente e perfeitamente para o portugues From that day onwards the prince became very pensive and contemplative. It was the talk of the town that the prince has turned his mind towards piety. At this time there arrived from the island of Sarandeep a
man of piety, Balohar by name, and he got wind of the interest of the
prince in piety. Balohar had come to the kingdom by boat and had met
the courtier close to the prince in the guise of a merchant. He told them
that he had a miraculous medicine that can bring back sight to totally
blind persons. It can also give the faculty of hearing to persons who are
totally deaf. The medicine also had, he said, power to cure any incurable
ailment. It can give strength to the physically weak, it will make the
mentally weak into wise and can give the possessor control over his mortal enemies. He told them that he wanted to show the medicine to the
prince. that he thought he was the right person to own it. He requested
them to get an audition from the prince for him. The courtier first
wanted to see the medicine before he could seek an appointment from
the prince. The man said that none other than the prince could bear to
look at the medicine.
Hearing this from Balohar, the courtier went to the prince and recounted what transpired between him and the merchant. The intuition of the
prince gave him a feeling that he could learn something interesting from
the merchant newly arrived from Serendeep. He wanted Balohar to meet
him privately in the quiet of night. The prince treated him with due respect and courtesy. Balohar said, “I never thought that your highness
would give such respect to a
total stranger?” The prince said, “The secret that I wish to unravel,
seems possible of solution through you!”
Balohar said: I am deeply grateful to you for the kindness you have for
me! I wish to tell you a tale. There was a king in a certain country. The
king was well known for his good nature and kindness to his subjects.
One day while he was riding for pleasure, the king noticed two persons
dressed in tattered garments. The king dismounted his steed, greeted
them and talked to them with respect. He shook hands with both the
persons. The courtiers accompanying the king didn’t like the gesture.
They couldn’t tell anything to the king but went to his elder brother and
complained about what they thought was the indiscretion of the king.
The brother went to the king and admonished him. He heard his elder
brother with respect and patience.
283The next morning the king deputed the ‘messenger-of-death’ to his
elder brother’s house. It was a custom there that the king used to have an
official messenger-of-death who would call on the person the king
ordered to be executed.
Hearing about the visit of the messenger-of-death everyone started
crying at the residence of the king’s elder brother. The elder brother, in a
funeral procession, came to the court. Seeing the condition of the brother,
the king said: How ignorant and foolish a person are you that for no
cause of capital punishment, just for getting a visit to your house from
the messenger-of-death you are so worried and disconsolate! Don’t you
think of the day when the herald from Allah will call you and question
about the treatment you meted out to Adam’s progeny like you, who are
as much your brothers as your own brothers are! What reply will you
give? My courtiers misled you. They were themselves misled by the
shabby and tattered apparel of those two pious persons! They were in
fact men of deep piety and knowledge!
Saying this, the king ordered four big chests to be brought. First two
were smeared with coal tar and filled with jewels and locked. The other
two chests were filigreed with gold and silver. But he got them filled
with garbage. Now he called the courtiers who had complained to his
brother. And asked them to tell which of the chests were more valuable.
They said that the chests with golden filigree are valuable and those with
covering of coal tar are not of any value.
The king ordered the chests covered with coal tar to be opened. The
jewels inside there illumined the court premises. The king said, “These
chests are like those two wise persons in tatters! You considered them
with least respect seeing their exterior appearance! You have said that
the chests with covering of gold are valuable. They are like those hypocrites who dress in costly garment and pretend to be wise and pious.
Such persons, with all their external finery, are full of garbage and trash
as are these golden chests!”
Hearing the story, the prince was very much impressed with Balohar.
He caught hold of his hand and said, “O wise person! Tell me some more
story of wisdom!”
Balohar narrated another story replete with lesson of piety to the
prince: