Agreement And Disagreement O’ people do not feel desolated...

Agreement And Disagreement O’ people do not feel desolated in the path of right because of the fewress of its runners, because people have thronged round a table (of this world) whose satiety doesn’t last, but whose hunger lasts for a long time. O’ people contentnees and anger is what gathers people to be treated as one community. O’ people he who treads the clear path reaches the spring of water, and whoever disobeys he falls into misdirection it strays into waterless desert.

Hypocrisy and Injustice Beware from destroying your morals and changing them. Certainly the tongue of a believer is after his heart, while the heart of a hypocrite is after his tongue; because when a believer intends to say some thing, he thinks it over in his mind. If it is good he discloses it, but if it is bad he lets it remain concealed.

While a hypocrite speaks whatever comes to his tongue, without knowing what is in his favour and what goes against him, As for the injustice That will not be left unquestioned, it is the injustice of slaves against one another. For your unity in respect of a right which you dislike is better than you scattering away in respect of a wrong that you like. Blessed is the man whose own defects keep him from the defects of others, so that he is engaged in himself and people are in comfort of him.

The Tribe O’ people! Surely no one can do without his tribe and their defence by hands and tongues. They are the most of all people to keep him and can ward off from him his troubles, and they are the most kind to him when tribulations befall him. Whoever holds up his hands from his kinsmen, they loose only one hand, but at the time of his need many hands remain held up from helping him.

The dispostions Describing man’s disposition It (the heart) has the drugs of wisdom and things contrary to wisdom. If hope is widened to it, eagerness humiliates it and when covetousness increases greed ruins it. If anger rises in it a serious rage develops. If it is blessed with pleasure, it forgets to be cautious. If it is frightened precaution busied it. If he feels secure inadvertence leads him astray. If it earns wealth, luxury spoils him. If trouble befalls it, impatience disgraces it.

If it faces starvation, distress overtakes it. If hunger attacks it weakness cripples it. If he eats to the excess, dyspepsia pains it. Thus, every shortness is harmful to it and every excess is spoiling to it.