Section: On Rights

Faṣl

( fī al-ḥuqūq )

Thumma tashtarik al-wizāratān baʻda al-tamyīz fī ḥuqūq wa-ʻuhūd , fa-ammā al-ḥuqūq fa-thamāniyah aḥaduhā : an yakūna bi-aʻbāʼ al-wizārah nāhiḍan , wa-fī maṣāliḥ al-mamlakah rākiḍan , yuqaddim ḥaẓẓ al-malik ʻalá ḥaẓẓ nafsihi , wa-yaʻlam anna ṣalāḥuhu muqtarin bi-ṣalāḥihi , fa-lan tastaqīm aḥwāl al-wazīr maʻa ikhtilāf ḥāl al-malik li-anna al-furūʻ tastamidd uṣūlahā wa-law istaqāmat la-kāna maylahā washīkan . Wa-qad qīla fī manshūr al-ḥikam : lā-tuqim bi-rabʻ muntaqim . Wa-al-thānī : an yakūna ʻalá al-kadd wa-al-taʻab qādiran , wa-fī al-sakhṭ wa-al-riḍā ṣābiran , lā-yanfir idhā awḥasha fa-inna nufūruhu ʻaṭab — wa-li-yatawaṣṣal ilá rāḥatihi bi-al-taʻab wa-ilá daʻatihi bi-al-naṣab ; wa-li-dhā qīla : ʻillat al-rāḥah qillat al-istirāḥah . Wa-qāla ʻAbd al-Ḥamīd : atʻib qadamaka fa-kam taʻiba qadamaka . Fa-in tashāghala bi-rāḥatihi wa-māla ilá ladhdhatihi , salabahā bi-al-tanakkur ; wa-ʻadimahā bi-al-taghayyur , fa-ḍāʻa wa-aḍāʻa , wa-kāna min amrihi ʻalá khaṭar wa-qad qīla fī manshūr al-ḥikam : ʻalá khaṭar man lam yukhāṭir fa-kayfa bi-al-maghrūr al-mukhāṭir . Wa-qad qīla fī baʻḍ asfār banī Isrāʼīl : al-ladhī yuḥibb al-shahawāt yubghiḍ nafsahu . Wa-al-thālith : an yakūna li-iḥsān al-malik shākiran , wa-li-isāʼatihi ʻādhiran , yashkur ʻalá yasīr al-iḥsān ; wa-yaʻdhir fī kathīr al-asāʼah , li-yastamidd bi-al-shukr iḥsānahu . Wa-yastadfiʻ bi-al-ʻudhr isāʼatahu . Fa-in ʻadala ʻanhumā kāna minhu ʻalá ḍiddihimā . Wa-qad qīla : aḥaqq al-nās bi-al-manʻ al-kafūr , wa-bi-al-ṣanīʻah al-shakūr . Wa-al-rābiʻ : an yuẓhir maḥāsinahu in khafiyat wa-yastur masāwīhi in ẓaharat , li-annahu bi-maḥāsinihi maʻlūm mawsūm , wa-bi-masāwīhi maqrūf marsūm , yushārikuhu fī ḥamd maḥāsinihi , wa-yuʼākhadh bi-dhamm masāwīhi . Wa-rubbamā istarsala al-malik li-thiqatihi bi-al-aḥbāb fa-irtakaba bi-al-hawá mā yuṣān ʻan idhāʻatihi , wa-kāna al-wazīr aḥaqq bi-satrihi ʻalayhi , li-annahu al-bāb al-maslūk ilayhi , musāʼir ghayr mujāhir . Fa-qad qīla : al-naṣḥ bayna al-malaʼ taqrīʻ . Wa-al-khāmis : an yukhliṣ nīyatahu fī ṭāʻatihi , wa-yakūna sirruhu ka-ʻalāniyatihi ; fa-inna al-qulūb jādhibah tamlik aʻinnat al-ajsād ; fa-in ittafaqā wa-illā fa-al-qalb aghlab , wa-huwa ilá murādihi ajdhab , kamā qāla al-shāʻir :

Wa-mā zirtukum ʻamdan wa-lākin dhā al-hawá ٭ ilá ḥaythu yahwá al-qalbu hawá bihi al-rajulu

Fa-akhliṣ qalbaka li-yuṭīʻaka jasaduka , wa-aḥsin sarīrataka li-taḥsun ʻalāniyatuka ; fa-inna al-qulūb tanimm ʻalá al-ḍamāʼir fa-tahtik astārahā ; wa-tudhīʻ asrārahā . Wa-qad rawá Mujāhid ʻan al-Nuʻmān bn Bashīr qāla qāla Rasūl Allāh ṣallá Allāh ʻalayhi wa-sallam : « fī ibn Ādam muḍghah idhā ṣalaḥat ṣalaḥa al-jasad , wa-idhā fasadat fasada al-jasad , alā wa-hiya al-qalb » . Wa-qad qīla fī baʻḍ ṣuḥuf banī Isrāʼīl : qalb al-insān yughayyir wajhahu khayran kāna aw sharran . Wa-al-sādis : an lā-yuʻāriḍ al-malik fī-man qaruba fa-istabṭan wa-lā-yumārīhi fī-man ḥaṭṭa wa-rafaʻa , fa-innahu yaḥkum bi-qudratihi ; wa-yaʼnaf min muʻāraḍatihi . Fa-rubbamā inqalaba bi-saṭwatihi idhā ʻūriḍa ; wa-māla bi-intiqāmihi idhā khūlifa , fa-bawādir al-mulūk tasbiq nadhīrahā wa-tadḥaḍ asīrahā , fa-in salima min al-khaṭar lam yaslam min al-ḍajar , wa-law salima minhumā wa-huwa nādir — fa-maqt al-muʻāriḍ markūz fī al-gharāʼiz , wa-kafá bi-al-maqt ʻuqbá . Wa-qāla Buzurjmihr : yajib li-al-ʻāqil an lā-yajzaʻ min jafāʼ al-wulāh wa-taqdīmihim al-jāhil ʻalayhi , idh kānat al-aqsām lam tūḍaʻ ʻalá qadr al-akhṭār , fa-inna ḥukm al-dunyā an lā tuʻṭá aḥadan mā yastaḥiqquhu , lākin tazīduhu wa-tanquṣuhu . Wa-al-sābiʻ : an yataqāṣar ʻan mushākalat al-malik fī rutbatihi , wa-yaqbiḍ nafsahu ʻan mithl hayʼatihi ; fa-lā yalbas mithl malābisihi , wa-lā-yarkab mithl marākibihi , wa-lā yastakhdim mithl khadamihi ; fa-inna al-malik yaʼnaf an mūthila , wa-yantaqim in shūkila ; wa-yará annahā min aḥwālihi al-mujtāḥah , wa-ḥishmatihi al-mustabāḥah , wa-li-yuʻayyiḍ ʻanhā bi-naẓāfat libāsihi wa-jasadihi min ghayri taṣannuʻ ; fa-inna al-naẓāfah min al-murūʼah wa-al-taṣannuʻ li-al-nisāʼ . Li-yakun bi-al-salāmah maḥfūẓan ; wa-bi-al-ḥishmah malḥūẓan . Wa-al-thāmin : an yastawfī li-al-malik wa-lā-yastawfī ʻalayhi , wa-yataʼawwal li-al-malik wa-lā yataʼawwal ʻalayhi , fa-inna al-malik idhā