The people of excellence
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ahl al-faḍl · the excellent among them · the people of excellence · أهل الفضل · فضلائهم
in the texts
Risālah fī ʻilm al-akhlāq
The class of men of merit who live under the patron's protection and largesse.
that He lengthen his continuance in lasting glory, and make his shade and his bounties perpetual over the people of excellence.
al-Saʻādah fī falsafat al-akhlāq
Men of excellence, contrasted with the ignorant in appetite and described as the standing targets of popular hostility.
for men, as the sayer says, are the enemies of what they do not know, and it is their way to speak ill of the people of excellence and to be hostile to everyone who differs from them in their doctrines and their purposes, and to aim at them with everything hateful and injurious.
and further, the ignorant among men, who are the more bestial, are stronger in these matters than the excellent among them.