 was impressed by what i saw of your passion for obeying your imam and your advocacy for the management of your caliph and your fear of every defect and flaw that entered his kingdom even if it was small and gained his authority even if it was small and of every matter that contradicted him even if its location was hidden and deviated from his pleasure even if its harm was small and of your fear that the interpreter would find a way to it and the enemy would cling to it for the sultan is not without a resentful interpreter and a discontented judge and a visitor who deviates from the rule and a lazy surfer and a person who admires his opinion and is mistaken in his statement fond of satirizing what is right and objecting to the management until it is as if he is a leader for the entire nation and a representative for the inhabitants of the entire kingdom he places himself in the position of the watchmen and in the position of surfacing over the caliphs and ministers he does not excuse himself even if the metaphor of the excuse is clear and he does not stop where there is a possibility of doubt and he does not believe that the witness sees what the absent one does not see and that he does not know the sources of opinion who did not witness its resources and he who turns away from it is he who does not know its future. and from the deprived who has been grudged by deprivation and from the vile who has been corrupted by kindness and from the impatient who has taken many times his right and because of his ignorance of his value and because of his narrow arms and lack of gratitude he thinks that what remains for him is more and that his right is more obligatory and from the one who seeks more
وقد أعجبني ما رأيت من شغفك بطاعة إمامك، والمحاماة لتدبير خليفتك، وإشفاقك من كل خلل وخلة دخل على ملكه وإن دق، ونال سلطانه وإن صغر، ومن كل أمر خالفه وإن خفي مكانه، وجانب رضاه وإن قل ضرره؛ ومن تخوفك أن يجد المتأول إليه طريقا والعدو عليه متعلقا؛ فإن السلطان لا يخلوا من متأول ناقم، ومن محكوم عليه ساخط، ومن معدول عن الحكم زار، ومن متعطل متصفح، ومن معجب برأيه ذي خطل في بيانه، مولع بتهجين الصواب، وبالاعتراض على التدبير، حتى كأنه رائد لجميع الأمة، ووكيل لسكان جميع المملكة؛ يضع نفسه في موضع الرقباء، وفي موضع التصفح على الخلفاء والوزراء؛ لا يعذر وإن كان مجاز العذر واضحا، ولا يقف فيما يكون الشك محتملا، ولا يصدق بأن الشاهد يرى ما لا يرى الغائب، وأنه لا يعرف مصادر الرأي من لم يشهد موارده، ومستدبره من لم يعرف مستقبله. ومن محروم قد أضغنه الحرمان، ومن لئيم قد أفسده الإحسان. ومن مستبطئ قد أخذ أضعاف حقه، وهو لجهله بقدره، ولضيق ذراعه وقلة شكره، يظن أن الذي بقي له أكثر، وأن حقه أوجب. ومن مستزيد