Sayings by the author of the introduction

Kalimāt « li-ṣāḥib al-muqaddimah »

1 — li-kull ḥāssah ḥaẓẓ fa-ḥaẓẓ al-ʻayn ḥusn al-manẓar wa-ḥaẓẓ al-rūḥ sumūw fikr al-jalīs wa-ḥaẓẓ al-rūḥ aʻlá wa-aghlá

2 — lā tuqarriẓ al-ʻamal al-ḥasan bi-lisānik wa-tadhummuh bi-fiʻālik

3 — ḥusn al-hayʼah wa-al-malābis lil-ghādiyāt wa-tahdhīb al-akhlāq fī al-rijāl maʻa al-rijāl

4 — innī aḥiss bi-wakhz fī al-ḍamīr wa-taʼnīb fī al-nafs ʻinda al-fakhr wa-law kāna ṣidqan

Wa-mā sharafun an yamdaḥa al-marʼu nafsahu ٭ wa-lākin aʻmālan tudhammu wa-tumdaḥu

5 — lā yazīd fī naẓarī man ṭāba al-māl li-kanzih wa-jamʻih wa-man jamaʻa al-ājur fī baytih wa-lā bih yubná

6 — idhā aradta al-ʻulūm lil-shaʻb yakfīk al-qalīl

7 — istashʻir al-dhillah li-nafsik li-man kāna fī naẓarik dhalīlan wa-ushkur rabbak ʻalá mā awlāk

8 — lā-tushghilak tarājim al-rijāl ʻan al-iṭṭilāʻ ʻalá al-ʻulūm wa-itqānihā fa-innahā innamā juʻilat lil-wuqūf ʻalá aʻmālihim wa-al-intihāj bi-nahjihim fa-iṭṭaliʻ wa-iʻmal li-takūn mudawwanan fī ṣaḥīfat al-tārīkh mā-zilta talhaju bi-al-tārīkhi tadrusuhu ٭ ḥattá raʼaynāka fī al-tārīkhi madhkūrā

9 — lā-tahtamm bi-al-kutub wa-tuqarriẓ asmāʼahā wa-taʻtan bi-tartībihā wa-tanẓīmihā wa-tatakāsal ʻammā-fīhā wa-itqānihā fa-takūn ka-al-ṣayārifah yutʻibūn ajsāmahum li-ghayrihim

10 — fa-li-takun muḥādathatuk fī al-ʻulūm al-ifādah in kunta maʻa jalīsik aʻlá wa-al-mushārakah in kunta lah musāwiyan wa-al-istifādah in kāna mink afḍal

11 — lā tahtamm bi-ḥifẓ al-shiʻr wa-khayālāt al-shuʻarāʼ wa-zakhrafatʹhum al-lisānīyah wa-tadaʻ kalām man lā yanṭiq ʻan al-hawá

12 — innī raʼaytu baʻḍ al-nās yahtammūn fī shirāʼ al-kutub wa-tartībihā wa-ṣarf jull awqātʹhum wa-law ṣarafū baʻḍahā fī tafahhum baʻḍ minhā la-kānū aʼimmah fīmā fīh iṭṭalaʻū

13 — lā taʻtaqid annak aḥaṭṭ al-nās qadran fa-tatahāwan bi-al-kabīrah wa-al-ṣaghīrah wa-lākin iʻtaqid annak khuliqta muhayyaʼ li-an takūn malikan fī ṣūrat insān wa-annah lā yufḍal ʻalayk illā imruʼ rabbat akhlāquh wa-ṣafā ḍamīruh wa-kāna lil-khayr miftāḥan wa-lil-shar mighlāqan

14 — inna al-nās yaẓunnūn anna al-ḍarar al-ḥāṣil lahum min ghayrihim wa-law ḥaqqaqū qalīlan la-ʻalimū annahum hum al-ladhīn jalabūh li-anfusihim fa-kaʼannahum qad ḍarra kull wāḥid minhum nafsah min ḥayth lā-yashʻur

15 — lā tataqayyad bi-mā lam yuqayyidak bih al-sharʻ wa-al-dīn wa-hādhā nawʻ min aḍrub al-ḥamāqah wa-al-ghabāwah wa-ashadd min hādhā man yajʻal taqyīd al-sharīʻah warāʼ al-ẓuhūr

16 — lā tabdaʼ al-jalīs bi-al-izdirāʼ fa-takūn ẓāliman

17 — li-an tatruk al-māl li-aladd aʻdāʼik baʻd mamātik khayr min an taḥtāj li-aʻazz aṣdiqāʼik fī ḥayātik

18 — inna al-nās fī imkānihim an yaʻīshū fī ṣafāʼ wa-wiʼām wa-lākinnahum ātharū al-taʻab bi-aʻmālihim wa-ḍayyaʻū ladhdhat al-ḥayāh bi-jahlihim

19 — innī la-aʻjab mimman yaṣrif laylah wa-nahārah fī jamʻ al-ʻulūm wa-tafahhumihā wa-baʻdaʼidh yaṣrif fī al-lahw awqātʹhu

20 — lā-yufriḥak an talūk lisānak bi-hajw ghayrik fa-fī ishtighālak bi-al-dhamm mithlak mushtaghil bik bal ashadd wa-aʻẓam

21 — anta thaqīl mā iʻtaqadta al-khiffah fī nafsik

23 — lā-tazur man yastathqilak wa-lā-tuḥaddith man lā-yaqbal ʻalayk wa-lā-tukhbir man yukadhdhibak

24 — lays min al-inṣāf an tadhumm ghayrik ʻalá fiʻl wa-taʻmal anta aḍʻāf mā-yafʻal

25 — lā-tadhumm ghayrik ʻalá ṣifah wa-antumā fīhā mushtarikān

26 — lā-tashtaghil bi-hajw man lam tara minh nafʻan wa-lā-ḍararan

27 — lā-tadhkur shayʼan ʻalá sabīl al-iʻjāb bih fa-rubbamā kāna al-sāmiʻ lā-yushārikuk fa-yaskhar bi-fikrik

28 — lā-yatakabbar al-mutakabbir illā min istishʻārah bi-ḍaʻf fī nafsih li-yajʻalah mukammilan lil-farāgh

29 — lā-tajʻal al-ʻilm ālah li-taḥṣīl maʼāribak wa-lākin ijʻalh al-maqṣūd li-dhātih

30 — al-māl wa-al-ʻilm wa-al-nasab wa-al-ḥasab wa-al-dhakāʼ kull dhālik lā yanfaʻ idhā kāna min al-akhlāq al-dhātīyah khilwan

31 — iḥriṣ ʻalá an yakūn kalāmak fī al-ashyāʼ ʻank wāḥidan li-allā taftaḍiḥ fīmā baʻd idhā ʻank qad baḥathū

32 — idhā kunta turīd al-ḥaẓwah ʻinda al-shaʻb bi-tarqiyat ḥālik fī nafsik wa-tharwatik wa-dārik fa-qad atʻabta nafsak wa-anta lā-tashʻur li-anna al-shaʻb lā-yunṣifuk fa-iʻmal li-ḥubb al-jamāl fī al-ashyāʼ

33 — ishtighālak bi-al-nās ḍaʻf min ḍaʻf al-thiqah bi-al-rūḥ wa-dalīl faqr al-nafs idh law kānat ghanīyah bi-nafsihā la-shaghalahā

34 — isʻa fī taḥsīn ḥālik ʻājilan aw ājilan ( wa-lā tulāḥiẓ ) al-majmūʻ fa-yashghalak ʻammā anta fīh

35 — law lam yakun min al-ḥikmah al-ʻaqlīyah siwá annahā tajʻal li-nafsik qīmah wa-law ʻinda nafsik la-kafá wa-in faqd al-taqdīr dalīl ʻalá annahā ṣadá ʻindah lam yataḥaqqaq bihā fa-al-taḥaqquq bihā natījatah al-tashabbuh bi-al-ilāh fī ʻizzatih

36 — min al-mutaʻallimīn man jadda fī taḥṣīl al-ʻilm lākinnah al-qawl ʻalá sabīl al-ḥikāyah ka-al-ṭifl yulaqqan al-kalām fa-yaqūl ka-mā samiʻa wa-lā tūjad ʻindah ṣūrah dhihnīyah muṭābiqah li-mā samiʻa fa-ḍarar hādhā ashadd min nafʻih

37 — mathalak fī ʻibādatik murāʼiyan ka-mathal man atʻaba nafsah fī al-taḥaṣṣul ʻalá al-māʼ wa-tanāwulah bi-kaffih khānatʹhu furūj al-aṣābiʻ fa-lam yantafiʻ bih aḥad

38 — lā tushhir nafsak bi-al-ʻilm wa-tatakāsal li-annak bi-hādhā tajlub li-nafsik al-naqṣ idhā ibtulīta wa-anta innamā turīd al-ʻizzah fa-al-iḥtiqār baʻd al-shuhrah ashadd min an tuʻrafa bi-al-jahl mabdaʼīyan fa-ḥāfiẓ ʻalá al-ʻizzah maʻa al-jahl in kunta turīd al-ʻizzah wa-ijtahid maʻa al-ʻilm in kunta turīduhā wa-illā fa-shuhrah bi-ʻilm wa-taghāful ʻanh min al-ḥumq wa-al-ghabāwah

40 — « min raḥmat Allāh bi-ʻibādih an jaʻala mukhayyilat kull imriʼ mastūrah ʻan aʻyun al-ākhar idh law kānat marʼīyah la-iqtatal al-nās fa-ikhtall al-niẓām »

41 — fī al-ghālib infiʻālāt al-nafs natījah min natāʼij nuqṣān al-ʻaql a-lā-tará anna amwāj al-baḥr tafīḍ ʻalá al-barr li-annahā lam tara muttasaʻan fī dāʼiratih

42 — ʻulūw al-ṣawt natījah min natāʼij ḍaʻf fī al-nafs idh law ānasa al-marʼ min nafsih bi-al-qūwah la-jaʻala qūwat ḥujjatih badal ʻulūw ṣawtih

43 — makr al-insān wa-ḥiqdah bi-al-ghayr natījah min natāʼij al-ḍaʻf al-rūḥānī wa-istishʻār minh bi-annah mahīn idh law kāna qawīyan la-jaʻala al-ṣarāḥah muqāwamah lil-madhkūr bih

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