It has been said that in this time of ours, a man lives for five hundred years, four hundred, three hundred, and at the very least, two hundred years. Before this, they were even longer of life and greater in patience, and as their patience decreased, their lifespans were shortened. It would have been more fitting and mandatory for the King to utilize the science of India so that the secret of this matter might be revealed to him, enabling him to know this wisdom and contemplate it."

The King said to him: "Woe to you, O Hormuz! Your words have struck my heart and awakened me from my slumber and heedlessness, until I feel as though I am not what I was just a moment ago. I know that in your speech there is a riddle and an allusion to a Meaning (Ma'na); so speak clearly to me of it so that I may know it."

and guide me?" Hormuz said to him: "O King, you have possessed authority, encompassed a kingdom, and nations have submitted to you, yet you [still] require one to guide you and direct you toward the clarification of your own counsel and the reality of your condition!! This indeed is the essence of weakness and incapacity."

The King then spoke to his minister—who was called Kuroshah ibn Bali, a descendant of kings—saying: "Woe to you! Do you hear Hormuz and the speech he addresses to me?" The minister replied: "O King, he has spoken with the face of truth and brought pure sincerity.