15ـ أفْضَلُ المُرُوءَةِ مُواساةُ الإخْوانِ بِالأمْوالِ...

15ـ أفْضَلُ المُرُوءَةِ مُواساةُ الإخْوانِ بِالأمْوالِ، ومُساواتُهُمْ فِي الأحْوالِ. Magnanimity is fulfilling one’s promise. 16ـ اَلمُرُوءَةُ إنْجازُ الوَعْدِ. Magnanimity is eschewing vile traits. 17ـ اَلمُرُوءَةُ اِجْتِنابُ الدَّنِيَّةِ. Concealing [one’s] poverty and sickness is part of magnanimity. 18ـ إخْفاءُ الفاقَةِ والأمْراضِ مِنَ المُرُوءَةِ. Magnanimity is bereft and devoid of every [form of] vulgarity. 19ـ اَلمُرُوءَةُ مِنْ كُلِّ خَناء عَرِيَّةٌ بَرِيَّةٌ.

Magnanimity impels [one] towards noble traits. 20ـ اَلمُرُوءَةُ تَحُثُّ عَلَى المَكارِمِ. There is no magnanimity like remaining free from sins. 21ـ لامُرُوَّةَ كَالتَّنزُُّهُ عَنِ المَ آثِمِ. Magnanimity is contentment and tolerance (or patience). 22ـ اَلمُرُوءَةُ القَناعَةُ والتَّحَمُّلُ (التَجَمُّلُ). Magnanimity prevents every vileness. 23ـ اَلمُرُوءَةُ تَمْنَعُ مِنْ كُلِّ دَنِيَّة. Magnanimity is being free from every [form of] wickedness. 24ـ اَلمُرُوءَةُ مِنْ كُلِّ لُؤْم بَرِيَّةٌ.

Magnanimity is being free from vulgarity and disloyalty. 25ـ اَلمُرُوءَةُ بَرِيَّةٌ مِنَ الخَناءِ والغَدْرِ. There is magnanimity in three things: lowering one’s gaze, lowering one’s voice and walking with modesty. 26ـ ثَلاثٌ فيهِنَّ المُرُوءَةُ: غَضُّ الطَّرْفِ، وغَضُّ الصَّوْتِ، وَمَشْيُ القَصْدِ. Three things are the consolidators of magnanimity: Giving without being asked, being faithful without having made a promise and being generous despite having less.

27ـ ثَلاثٌ هُنَّ جِماعُ المُرُوءَةِ: عَطاءٌ مِنْ غَيْرِ مَسْئَلَة، ووَفاءٌ مِنْ غَيْرِ عَهْد، وَجُودٌ مَعَ إقْلال. Three things amount to magnanimity: generosity despite poverty [and hardship], tolerance of everything other than humiliation and refraining from asking others. 28ـ ثَلاثَةٌ هُنَّ المُرُوءَةُ: جُودٌ مَعَ قِلَّة، واحْتِمالٌ مِنْ غَيْرِ مَذَلَّة، وتَعَفُّفٌ عَنِ المَسْئَلَةِ.

The completeness of magnanimity is for you not to do in private what you would feel ashamed of doing in front of others. 29ـ جِماعُ المُرُوءَةِ أنْ لاتَعْمَلَ فِي السِّرِّ ما تَسْتَحْيي مِنْهُ فِي العَلانِيَةِ. Two qualities have in them the consolidation of magnanimity: a person’s eschewing that which disgraces him and his acquiring that which embellishes him. 30ـ خَصْلَتانِ فيهِما جِماعُ المُرُوءَةِ: اِجْتِنابُ الرَّجُلِ ما يَشينُهُ، واكْتِسابُهُ ما يَزينُهُ.

One’s magnanimity is to the extent of the nobility of his soul. 31ـ عَلى قَدْرِ شَرَفِ النَّفْسِ تَكُونُ المُرُوءَةُ.