Comma for either/or — dharma, courage. Spelling forgiving — corage finds courage.

    al-Saʻādah fī falsafat al-akhlāq

    The conclusion of the discourse

    Miskawayh

    citations · figures & ideas

    Laʻallaka ʻinda-dhālika tatakāsal wa-taqūl hādhā nabí mukhtār bi-tilka al-ṣifāt wa-mirʼāh li-baṣar Allāh fa-baʻīd ʻalá an aṣila wa-mustaḥīl ʻalá an ablugh tilka al-darajah al-rafīʻah

    Naʻam wa-in kāna ka-dhālika lākin saʻyaka wa-jidduka fī al-tashabbuh yuʻṭīka darajah asmá mimmā anta ʻalayhi ḥāṣil ʻalá annaka maʼmūr bi-al-iqtidāʼ bihi ( la-qad kāna la-kum fī rasūli Allāhi uswatun ḥasanatun ) wa-la-in saʻayta wa-muttu wa-anta mujidd khayr min an tamūta wa-anta mutakāsil wa-tatamanná ʻalá Allāh al-amānī jālisan ʻalá bisāṭ al-rāḥah muttakiʼan ʻalá wisād al-riḍā bi-mā anta mutakhalliq bihi ( wa-man yakhruj min baytihi muhājiran ilá Allāh wa-rasūlihi thumma yudrikʹhu al-mawt fa-qad waqaʻa ajruhu ʻalá Allāh ) inna Allāha lā yuḍayyiʻu ajra man aḥsana ʻamalan wa-ḥaythu anna al-qalam qad jará wa mīdān al-imlāʼ wa-naḥnu lā-nazīd illā al-ījāz wa-fī mā taqaddam al-kifāyah fa-ismaʻ al-khitām fī al-maqāl

    Al-khitām fī al-maqāl

    An taʻlama anna laka madaʼ wa-mabdaʼ wa-nihāyah wa-mutaṣaddan fī khalqika mustashʻiran bi-rūḥika wa-muqawwimihā idh laysa lahu al-ḥarakah al-dhātīyah ḥattá taktafí bi-nafsihā wa-an tataḥaqqaq annaka lam tukhlaq li-tuḍīfa ilá al-māddah al-mushakhkhaṣah al-ḥāmilah li-rūḥika māddah ukhrá min ʻālam al-kawn wa-al-fasād idh humā fāniyān lā-thabāta lahumā ḥattá taltaḥiq rūḥika bi-ʻālamihā wa-taṣila ilá maqarrihā bal li-taʻlama anna al-ʻālam min ʻarshihi ilá farshihi musakhkhar li-juthmānika min shams wa-qamar wa-anhār wa-saḥāb