The Sciences of Poetry and Arithmetic

fa-man ittaqá Allāh taʻālá kafāhu al-nās wa-man arḍá al-nās bi-sakhaṭ Allāh taʻālá sallaṭa Allāh ʻalayhi man arḍāhu wa-innahā la-kabīrah illā ʻalá al-khāshiʻīn .

( ʻilm al-shiʻr )

wa-al-shiʻr huwa min funūn al-munshiʼ wa-huwa kalām fa-ḥasanuhu ḥasan wa-huwa qalīl wa-qabīḥuhu qabīḥ wa-huwa al-aghlab , wa-bayt mālihi al-kadhib wa-al-isrāf fī al-madḥ wa-al-hajw wa-al-tashbīh wa-al-nuʻūt wa-al-ḥamāsah , wa-amlaḥuhu akdhabuhu fa-in kāna al-shāʻir balīghan mufawwahan miqdāman ʻalá al-kadhib fī lahjatihi muṣirran ʻalá al-iktisāb bi-al-shiʻr raqīq al-dīn fa-qad qaraʼa maqt al-shiʻr fī sūrat al-Shuʻarāʼ . wa-yandur ʻalá al-shuʻarāʼ al-mujawwidīn an yataṣawwanū min al-hijāʼ wa-rubbamā addá al-amr bi-al-shāʻir li-al-tajāwuz ilá al-kufr nasʼal al-ʻafw . fa-al-shāʻir al-muḥsin ka-Ḥassān wa-al-muqtaṣid ka-Ibn al-Mubārak wa-al-ẓālim ka-al-Mutanabbī wa-al-safīh al-fājir ka-Ibn al-Ḥajjāj wa-al-kāfir ka-dhawī al-ittiḥād fa-ikhtar li-nafsika ayy wād tasluk .

( ʻilm al-ḥisāb )

al-ḥisāb wa-sharʻ al-dīwān min ʻulūm al-Qibṭ wa-al-Furs laysa min ʻulūm al-Islām (١) wa-huwa ṣanʻah wa-maʻīshah yanālu bihā al-rajul al-saʻādah

— al-ḥawāshī —

[28] (١) ka-annahu yatanāsá mā qīla fī qawlihi taʻālá ḥikāyah ʻan Yūsuf ʻalayhi al-salām ( innī ḥafīẓ ʻalīm ) ay ḥafīẓ li-al-alsun ʻalīm bi-ʻilm al-ḥisāb kamā dhakarahu Abū al-Ḥasan al-Māwardī wa-ghayruhu .