إِذْ أَقْبَلَ عَلَيْهِ رَجُلٌ مِنَ الْفُرْسِ يُقْتَدَى...

إِذْ أَقْبَلَ عَلَيْهِ رَجُلٌ مِنَ الْفُرْسِ يُقْتَدَى بِرَأْيِهِ فِي حِسَابِ النُّجُومِ لِمَعْرِفَتِهِ بِالطَّوَالِعِ وَ الْمَرَاجِعِ وَ تَقْوِيمِ الْقُطْبِ فِي الْفَلَكِ وَ مَعْرِفَتِهِ بِالْحِسَابِ وَ الضَّرْبِ وَ الْجَبْرِ وَ الْمُقَابَلَةِ وَ تَارِيخِ السِّنْدَآبَادِ وَ غَيْرِ ذَلِكَ وَ هُوَ الدِّهْقَانُ Then a man from Persia came towards him -asws , believing in his opinion based on the astrological calculation, due to his understanding of the omens, and the references, and rising of the poles in the orbits, and his understanding of the arithmetic, and the multiplications, and the algebra, and the comparisons, and history of Sindabad, and other than that, and he is Al-Dihqan.

فَلَمَّا بَصُرَ بِأَمِيرِ الْمُؤْمِنِينَ ع نَزَلَ عَنْ فَرَسِهِ وَ سَلَّمَ عَلَيْهِ فَقَالَ لَهُ أَيُّهَا الْأَمِيرُ لِتَرْجِعَنَّ عَمَّا قَصَدْتَ إِلَيْهِ وَ كَانَ اسْمُ الدِّهْقَانِ سرسفيل‏سوار وَ كَانَ دِهْقَاناً مِنْ دَهَاقِينِ الْمَدَائِنِ فَقَالَ لَهُ أَمِيرُ الْمُؤْمِنِينَ ع وَ لِمَ يَا سرسفيل‏سوار When he sighted Amir Al-Momineen -asws , he descended from his horse and greeted unto him ‑asws .

Amir Al-Momineen -asws said to him: ‘And why, O Sarsafeel Sawar?’ قَالَ تَنَاحَسَتِ النُّجُومُ الطَّالِعَاتُ وَ تَبَاعَدَتِ النُّجُومُ النَّاحِسَاتُ وَ لَزِمَ الْحَكِيمُ فِي مِثْلِ هَذَا الْيَوْمِ الِاخْتِفَاءَ وَ الْقُعُودَ وَ يَوْمُكَ هَذَا مُمِيتٌ يقلب [تُغُلِّبَ‏] فِيهِ رجمان [بُرْجَانُ‏] وَ انكشفت [انْكَسَفَ‏] فِيهِ الْمِيزَانُ وَ اقْتَدَحَ مِنْ بُرْجِكَ النِّيرَانُ وَ لَيْسَ الْحَرْبُ لَكَ بِمَكَانٍ He said, ‘The ascendant stars are lined up and the inauspicious stars are divergent, and it necessitates the wise one in the like of this day, the hiding and the sitting (at home), and this days of yours -asws is deadly.