the envious knowledgeable person who has taqiyya and musk and has bait or life if he wants to assassinate the book and scheme to bring it down he will look through its pages and stop at its boundaries and joints and look at it again and review his thoughts and show the master in whose presence he is and his companions from the verification and deliberation a snare with which to seize their hearts and a reason with which to attract their minds and a ladder with which to ascend to his desire from them and a carpet upon which to spread the ends of deception. he will give the impression that he intends to seek the truth and is chosen for it. perhaps with these deceptions and tricks he will attract the heart of the decisive master.
والحاسد العارف الذي فيه تقية ومعه مسكة، وبه طعم أو حياة، إذا أراد أن يغتال الكتاب ويحتال في إسقاطه، تصفح أوراقه ووقف على حدوده ومفاصله، وردد فيه بصره وراجع فكره، وأظهر عند السيد الذي هو بحضرته وجلسائه، من التثبت والتأني حبالة يقتنص بها قلوبهم، وسببا يسترعي به ألبابهم، وسلما يرتقي به إلى مراده منهم، وبساطا يفرش عليه مصارع الخدع. فيوهم به القصد إلى الحق والاجتباء له. فربما استرعى بهذه المخاتل والخدع قلب السيد الحازم.