خلاصه ماشینی:
Ferdowsi repeatedly complains about his taxes and poverty, and from one part of the Shahnameh, it is evident that in the early days of Mahmud's reign or before him, it was the custom to collect taxes one year in advance, but Mahmud changed this, as he says after the Iskandarnama: Ten and four have passed since Shawwal, Blessings be upon the sovereign Good news was given regarding the tax, That a good decree came from the King with glory and crown That no tax shall be demanded in advance, From the pious, the vigilant, and the emerald-natured From this letter of the King, the destroyer of enemies, May he forever sit upon the throne of grace All people left their homes for the wilderness, And prayers ascended to the heavens And one of the places where he has spoken of his poverty is at the beginning of the story of Rostam and Esfandiyar, where he says: The air is full of roar and the earth full of swelling, Drink coolly, you who have a joyful heart He has a house, bread, sweets, and wine, Yet he might slaughter a sheep's head This is not joyful for me, but for him who has it, Grant charity to the people in hardship This poet has been in distress in every respect and was not happy with the people of Tus; in one place he speaks of their bad religiousness, and in another, of their stinginess, as they come to read his poems and make copies, saying "Ahsant, Ahsant" (Bravo, Bravo), but they do not accompany the poet and imagine that the poet was their mercenary and that he composed these poems for the amusement of those gentlemen: The great and learned nobles of the free, Were not all written for free Sitting and watching them from afar, You said I was bad in the eyes of their mercenary From them, I gain nothing but "Ahsant," My soul cries out in their "Ahsant" The doors of ancient valleys were closed, And from that closure, my bright heart grew weary And at this very place (the last page of the book) there are two verses that draw our attention to the first part of the previous article, where we were searching for the great man and the founder of the Shahnameh.
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