Basatin al-uns 68.336

68.336

و خلتهم سهاما صائبات نصارواها و لک فی فؤادی وقالوا قد صفت منها قلوبلقد صدقوا و لکن من ودادی نفس بدگوهر و مردم لئیم که به کمال هنر و دانش ممتاز و مستثنی بود و یک چندی بهتکلیف و تلبیس خود را در لباس زمرهآ اشراف و طبقهآ احرار بر مردمان عرضه کند، البته به حکم العرق دساس، رگ پلید وی سوی بدی و بی وفایی کشد «قل ککل یعمل علی شاکلته و خواتیم امور او به خباثت و خیانت و عداوت متصل و مقرون شود.

and I deemed them straight-flying arrows, and so they became, / but [aimed] into my heart!
And they said, 'Hearts have become cleared of them.' / Indeed they spoke truly, but [cleared] of affection for me!"
An evil-natured soul and a vile person, even if distinguished and exceptional in the perfection of skill and learning, who for a time
by affectation and dissimulation presents himself to people in the guise of the noble elite and the class of freeborn men, will inevitably,
by virtue of the decree "A vein is an ingrainer," have his vile vein draw him toward wickedness and treachery: "Say, each acts according to his disposition"; and
the outcomes of his affairs will be joined and bound to malignity, betrayal, and hostility.