 then perhaps your knowledge which you are amazed at your penetration into is from the later sciences in which there is no great quality such as poetry and what is similar to it. then look at someone whose knowledge is more important than your knowledge in the ranks of this world and the next and your soul will be insignificant to you.
ثم لعل علمك الذي تعجب بنفاذك فيه من العلوم المتأخرة التي لا كبير خصلة فيها كالشعر وما جرى مجراه، فانظر حينئذ إلى من علمه أجل من علمك في مراتب الدنيا والآخرة، فتهون نفسك عليك.