if the sultan were to return to him his previous white hands and his past favors upon him he would be worthy of that and deserving of it. he has been deceived by dictation and has been made arrogant by constant sufficiency and has been corrupted by long idleness. and the owner of sedition who is idle in the community a leader in the division and a cawing in the commotion whom the sultan has banished and whose youth has established the culture of literature and whom the rule of truth has humiliated is a vexatious person who finds nothing but slander and takes pleasure in nothing but rumourmongering and finds comfort in nothing but wishful thinking and finds solace in every rumourmongering liar and suspicious tempter and a swindler in whom there is no good and a dissenter who has no use who wants to be equal to the sufficiency and to be elevated above the protectors for a matter that he has in the past and for a kindness done by others and he is not one of those who raise the past with the present nor care about lessons of honor nor distinguish between the reward of those who seek reward and the preservation of the children of the doers of good.
لو ارتجع السلطان سالف أياديه البيض عنده، ونعمه السالفة عليه، لكان لذلك أهلا، وله مستحقا. قد غره الإملاء، وأبطره دوام الكفاية، وأفسده طول الفراغ. ومن صاحب فتنة خامل في الجماعة، رئيس في الفرقة، نعاق في الهرج، قد أقصاه السلطان، وأقام صغوه ثقاف الأدب، وأذله الحكم بالحق، فهو مغيظ لا يجد غير التشنيع، ولا يتشفى بغير الإرجاف، ولا يستريح إلا إلى الأماني، ولا يأنس إلا بكل مرجف كذاب، ومفتون مرتاب، وخارص لا خير فيه، وخالف لا غناء عنده، يريد أن يسوى بالكفاة، ويرفع فوق الحماة، لأمر ما سلف له، ولإحسان كان من غيره، وليس ممن يرب قديما بحديث، ولا يحفل بدروس شرف، ولا يفصل بين ثواب المحتسبين، وبين الحفظ لأبناء المحسنين.