Muntakhab al-tawarikh 379.5

379.5

One of the company said, ‘Sir, who are you, and why do you thus intrude upon us?’ He replied, ‘I am a Turk, and I am a servant of the darogha, and I am hungry.’ But if others, besides myself, should be jealous for the faith I shall not resent their criticism, nay, rather, my life is a sacrifice for those people who shall apprise me of my faults. But if they be not jealous for the faith let them hang their heads and hold their peace, for in truth the bird of my pen, with its sharp bill and its sublime able, confirming the truth of the verse, ‘These are they who have purchased error at the price of true direction;