Truthfulness with life entails simplicity and detests from complexity...

Truthfulness with life entails simplicity and detests from complexity, since every fact is simple as such as the sun is shining and the night dark as on indication of this warm simplicity, as it is a living, spontaneous outcome of truthfulness, we say that Ibn Abi Talib hates arrogance as it is not a true nature; rather dignity is truthfulness; then the arrogant person, in his view, is one who rises above his nature itself, and he says: “So not be like him who feels superiority to the son of his own mother.” He, at the same time, dislikes modesty if it is inten-tional, since it is not then a true nature; rather the feeling that man is equal to every man in his dignity is the truthfulness.

Hence he addresses him whose modesty leads him to humiliate himself, saying to him: “Beware of humiliating yourself”.

Then he follows that with a more wonderful saying: “Do not accom-pany, in a travel, him who does not see your superiority to him like what you see of his superiority to you!” I do not know, in the principles of the protectors of man’s dignity as a man who is not arrogant or humilliated, rather is truthful only, that excels this word of Ibn Abi Talib or that equals it in value: “Man is man’s mirror!” And from his sayings that indicates the necessity of taking life easy and simply are: “How bad it is to bend down at the time of need and to be harsh in sufficiency.…