 and let him know that every virtue is attained by overcoming and stubbornness and by coercion and struggle and every gain is gained by sin and shame and with bad speech and ugly story or by humiliating the face and bleeding modesty or by breaching chivalry and defiling honor is insignificant and that the greatness of its value is small and even if its source is abundant it is terrible and even if its bliss appears it is terrible even if it is clear in the mirror of the eye and that the purity in which there is no turbidity and the forgiveness which
وليعلم أن كل فضل نيل بالمغالبة والمكابرة وبالاستكراه والمجاهدة وكل ربح حيز بالإثم والعار ومع سوء القالة وقبح الأحدوثة أو يبذل الوجه ونزف الحياء أو بثلم المروءة وتدنيس العرض زهيد وأن عظم قدره نزر وإن غزرت مادته وبيل وإن ظهرت هناءته وخيم وإن كان في مرآة العين مريا وإن الصفو الذي لا كدر فيه والعفو الذي