 have not seen in this shuubiyyah more hostile or more hostile to the arabs than the lowly the common folk the rabble of the nabataeans and the sons of the poor villages. as for the nobles of the persians the dangerous ones among them and the religious people they know what is for them and what is against them and they see honor as fixed . and the just saying about honor is that people have a father and a mother they were created from dust and returned to dust and flowed like urine and folded over filth. then to god is their return so lineages are cut off and pedigrees are invalidated except for he whose lineage is the fear of god . this is its condition in the preislamic era along with many conditions in knowledge and learning which we will mention in full later god willing .
ولم أر فى هذه الشعوبية أرسم عداوة ولا أشد نصبا للعرب من السفلة والحشوة وأوباش النبط وأبناء أكرة القرى. فأما أشراف العجم وذوو الأخطار منهم وأهل الديانة فيعرفون ما لهم وما عليهم، ويرون الشرف ثابتا . وعدل القول فى الشرف أن الناس لأب وام، خلقوا من تراب واعيدوا إلى التراب، وجروا مجرى البول، وطووا على الأقذار. ثم إلى الله مرجعهم، فتنقطع الأنساب وتبطل الأحساب إلا من كان حسبه تقوى الله . فهذه حالها فى الجاهلية مع أحوال كثيرة فى العلم والمعرفة سنذكرها بتمامها بعد إن شاء الله .