Section: The Vizier's Attentiveness to the King

Faṣl

( ʻināyat al-wazīr bi-al-malik )

Wa-al-faṣl al-thālith min qawānīn hādhihi al-wizārah : an yakūna ʻaynan li-al-malik nāẓirah wa-udhnan sāmiʻah , yunhī mā shāhada ʻalá ḥaqqihi ; wa-yukhbir bimā samiʻa ʻalá ṣidqihi ; li-annahu qad sūhima bi-al-malik wa-muyyiza bi-al-ikhtiṣāṣ wa-nudiba li-al-maṣāliḥ . Fa-lazima an yatakhaṣṣaṣ bi-maṣāliḥ al-malik ; fa-yaqūm maqāmahu fī mushāhadat mā ghāba wa-samāʻ mā baʻuda li-taqaddumihi ʻalá man siwāhu , wa-ʻalayhi fī dhālika thalāthat ḥuqūq . Aḥaduhā : an yudīm al-faḥṣ ʻan aḥwāl al-mamlakah ḥattá yaʻlam mā ghāba ka-ʻilmihi bi-al-ḥāḍir ; wa-yaʻlam mā khafiya ka-ʻilmihi bi-al-ẓāhir ; fa-lā yatadallas ʻalayhi ḥaqq amrin min bāṭilihi , wa-lā yashtabih ʻalayhi ṣidq qawlin min kadhibihi . Fa-qad qīla : al-ḥaqq ablaj wa-al-bāṭil lajlaj , fa-in qaṣṣara fīhā ḥattá khafiyat aw istarsala fīhā ḥattá tadallasat kāna muʼākhadhan bi-jurm al-taqṣīr wa-jarīrat al-ḍarar . Wa-al-thānī : an lā yuʻajjil muṭālaʻat al-malik bihā wa-lā yuʼakhkhirahā — wa-in jāza taʼkhīr al-ʻamal bihā li-anna ʻalayhi al-inhāʼ , wa-laysa ʻalayhi al-ʻamal . Wa-qad qīla fī ḥikmat āl Dāwūd ʻalayhi al-salām : al-ladhī yaktum jahlahu ; khayr min al-ladhī yaktum ḥikmatahu . Wa-idhā kāna minhu bi-manzilat ʻaynihi al-nāẓirah wa-udhnihi al-sāmiʻah al-latī yataʻajjal al-ʻilm bihā , wajaba an yajrī maʻahu ʻalá ḥukmihā li-yastadrik al-malik mā yajib taʻjīluhu , wa-yuqaddim al-ruʼyah fī-mā yajūz taʼkhīruhu , fa-in akhkhara al-wazīr iʻlām al-malik bihā wa-qad ḥasama ḍararahā kāna li-al-naṣīḥah muʼaddiyan ; wa-min al-malik ʻalá wajal . Wa-min hādhā al-wajh khālafa wazīr al-tafwīḍ fī qiyāmihi bi-tadbīrihā dūna al-muṭālaʻah bihā , li-anna dhālika maqṣūr ʻalá al-inhāʼ wa-dhālika mandūb li-al-ʻamal . Wa-al-thālith : yūḍiḥ lahu ḥaqāʼiq al-umūr wa-yusāwī fīhā bayna al-ṣaghīr wa-al-kabīr , wa-lā yumāyil qarīban wa-lā yataḥayyaf baʻīdan , wa-lā yuʻaẓẓim min al-umūr ṣaghīran wa-lā yuṣaghghir minhā ʻaẓīman , fa-inna man khāfa