and i hate those who are between wajr and raqaba they gathered on harran a confused and wandering person. and there is no one who alerts the heedless or advises a friend or protects a muslim or tells about a sinner or tells about an enemy as long as he is not lying or lying and does not intentionally hold grudges as a transmitter. and have the weak perished and the one without a mind fallen except through lack of knowledge of the advisor from the gossiper? and these are two characteristics that are similar in appearance but different in essence one of them is a disease and the other is a cure. and the one with a penetrating mind is not unaware of their matter but the transmitter is the one whose transmission is not satisfactory in religion and he intends thereby to cause dispersion among the guardians and to cause division among the brothers and to incite and rebuke and incitement. whoever fears that if he takes the path of advice he will fall into the path of gossip and does not trust the penetration of his discernment and the sharpness of his judgment in what he desires of his worldly affairs and his dealings with the people of his time let him make his religion a guide and a lamp by which he is illuminated so that wherever he takes it he will take it and wherever it stops he will stop and a guarantor for him of his consideration and a leader of hitting the mark and a guarantee of success and salvation. the legislator of the shariah and the sender of the messenger peace be upon him and the arranger of the commands and prohibitions knows the path of truth and is more aware of the consequences of safety and the consequences of salvation than anyone who looks at himself according to his own opinion and investigates according to his own assumptions.
وأبغض من بين وهجر ورقبة جمعن على حران حيران هائم وليس من نبه غافلا، أو نصح صديقا، أو حفظ مسلما، أو حكى عن فاسق أو حدث عن عدو ما لم يكن يكذب ولا يكذب، ولا تعمد الضغائن منقلا . وهل هلك الضعفاء وسقط من لا عقل له إلا في قلة المعرفة بالناصح من النمام، وهما صفتان متقاربتان في الظاهر متفاوتتان في الباطن، إحداهما داء والأخرى دواء. والثاقب القريحة لا يخفى عليه أمرهما، لكن الناقل من كان تنقيله غير مرضي في الديانة، ونوى به التشتيت بين الأولياء، والتضريب بين الإخوان، والتحريش والتوبيش والرقيش. فمن خاف إن سلك طريق النصيحة ان يقع في طريق النميمة، ولم يثق لنفاذ تمييزه ومضاء تقديره فيما يرده من أمور دنياه ومعاملة أهل زمانه، فليجعل دينه دليلا وسراجا يستضيء به، فحيثما سلك به سلك وحيثما أوقفه وقف، وكفيلا له بالنظر وزعيما بالإصابة وضمانا للفلج والخلاص . فشارع الشريعة وباعث الرسول عليه السلام ومرتب الأوامر والنواهي أعلم بطريق الحق وأدرى بعواقب السلامة ومغبات النجاة من كل ناظر لنفسه بزعمه، وباحث بقياسه في ظنه.