The Ancient Sultan's Eyes

For the #RamadanReadathon at Twitter, I want to highlight some story collections that people might enjoy reading, featuring free full-text books online; here are all the books I've featured so far, including a 100-word story for each one too.

So, today's book is The Gulistan, or Rose Garden, of Sadi translated by John T. Platts. See details below, and here is a story from that collection:

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The Ancient Sultan's Eyes

The King of Khorasan saw in a dream an ancient sultan, a ruler who had been dead for over a hundred years. "I saw that his whole body was decaying into dust. But his eyes were still there, in the eye-sockets of his skull, moving back and forth, back and forth. What can it means?"
None of the king's courtiers court interpret a dream, but then a dervish spoke up. "O King," he said, "the ancient sultan's eyes are looking around because he knows that someone now possesses that which he once possessed: a kingdom, wealth, and power."

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You can find a longer version of that story, and many other stories besides, in the online book, which is available at Hathi Trust.