The Sciences of Inheritance Shares and Prose Composition

( ʻilm al-farāʼiḍ )

wa-al-faraḍīyūn dākhilūna fī al-fuqahāʼ idh huwa kitāb min kutub al-fiqh wa-huwa ʻilm malīḥ wa-al-imʻān fīhi yufawwitu al-waqt wa-al-tawassuṭ fī dhālika jayyid fa-kam min masʼalah fīhi mā waqaʻat wa-lā taqaʻu abadan .

( ʻilm al-inshāʼ )

al-inshāʼ fann abnāʼ al-dunyā laysa min ʻilm al-ākhirah fī shayʼ , wa-al-kāmil fīhi yaḥtāju ilá mushārakah qawīyah fī al-ʻulūm al-Islāmīyah wa-yurīdu ʻaqlan tāmman wa-razānah wa-surʻat fahm wa-qūwat takhayyul wa-tabaṣṣur bi-al-lughah wa-al-naḥw wa-khibrah bi-al-maʻānī wa-al-bayān wa-al-siyar wa-ayyām al-nās wa-funūn al-adab wa-ḥusn kitābah , wa-lākin li-yakun raʼs māl al-munshiʼ taqwá Allāh wa-murāqabatahu fa-rubbamā waḍaʻa lafẓah tuʻjibuhu yahwī bihā ilá al-nār wa-huwa lā yadrī wa-rubbamā abdaʻa fī saṭr tarattaba ʻalayhi kharāb Miṣr wa-rubbamā aʻāna bi-qalamihi ʻalá safk dam bi-tilka al-balāghah fa-unẓur ayna anta yā balīgh , qad dhamma nabīyuka ṣallá Allāh ʻalayhi wa-sallam al-balāghah fa-qāla ( inna min al-bayān la-siḥran ) (١) wa-qāla ṣallá Allāh ʻalayhi wa-sallam ( al-ʻiyy min al-īmān ) fa-kammil barāʻat balāghatika bi-irḍāʼ rabbika al-aʻlá wa-bi-nuṣḥ rabb al-amr fa-hunā kamāl al-balāghah in kunta min al-muttaqīn wa-in taʻadhdhara dhālika fa-dīnuka mā bihi ʻiwaḍ

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[27] (١) yā turá hal hādhā fī jānib al-bayān madḥ am qadḥ !