The eighth section (on delight and happiness)

Wa-malak wa-ghayr dhālika min sāʼir al-makhlūqāt ḥattá al-nawʻ baʻḍuhu li-baʻḍ wa-juthmānuka al-makhdūm fī hādhihi al-ʻawālim kulluhā musakhkhar li-rūḥika wa-rūḥuka musakhkharah li-khidmat mubdiʻihā fa-matá ʻarafta wājib mubdiʻihā wa-waṣalta ilá dark hādhā wa-wājibihā naḥwahu saʻidta wa-matá saʻidta istaraḥta wa-matá istaraḥta intaqalat al-rūḥ ilá maʻānin tashghal bihā min qabl bāriʼihā lā-tuḥīṭ bihā al-ʻibārah wa-lā yafí bihā al-kalām

ʻAlá nafsihi fa-l-yabki man ḍāʻa ʻumruhu ٭ wa-laysa lahu fīhā naṣībun wa-lā sahmu

Fa-anhaḍ tarfā rāʼa ka-man samiʻā wa-al-salām ʻalá man ittabaʻa wa-aḥsana al-ʻamal fa-waṣala fa-saʻida

Wa-itmāman lil-fāʼidah natlū ʻalayka ʻibārat Ibn Sīnā al-Raʼīs naqlan ʻan kitāb al-Ishārah fī al-Ālihīyāt taḥt al-ʻunwān al-ātí

Al-namaṭ al-thāmin

( fī al-bahjah wa-al-saʻādah )

Innahu qad yaghlib ʻalá al-awhām al-ʻāmmīyah anna al-ladhdhāt al-qawīyah hiya al-ḥissīyah wa-mā-ʻadāhā ladhdhāt ḍaʻīfah aw khayālāt ghayr ḥaqīqīyah wa-yadull ʻalá fasādihi wajhān al-awwal anna al-ladhdhāt al-maḥsūsāt hiya al-mankūḥāt wa-al-maṭʻūmāt wa-naḥnu nará anna al-mutamakkin min ghalabah mā-wa-law fī amr khasīs ka-al-shiṭranj wa-al-nard qad yaʻriḍ lahu maṭʻūm wa-mankūḥ fa-yatrukuhu li-mā yaʻtāḍuhu min ladhdhat al-ghalabah wa-qad yatruk al-maṭʻūm wa-al-mankūḥ lil-ḥishmah fa-yakūn murāʻātuhu