one of the greatest things that called them to wander and prompted them to return and made them hate the place was the ignorance of their leaders about their worth and their lack of knowledge of their dangers and their neglect of the place of responding to them and benefiting from them until they made them an example for their soldiers and were not satisfied with being in the entourage and the crowd and in the midst of the common people and the display of the armies and they were disgusted by that for themselves and mentioned what was due to them and saw that injustice was not appropriate for them and that obscurity was not permissible for them and that they were in the place of someone who did not know their right and that they were more blameworthy than those who denied them their right so when they encountered a wise king and knowledgeable about the worth of people who did not incline to bad habit nor did he lean toward passion nor was he biased towards one country over another he revolved with the management wherever it revolved and resided with the truth wherever it resided they resided as one who understood fate and adhered to the truth and abandoned custom and preferred
ومن أعظم ما كان يدعوهم إلى الشرود ويبعثهم على الرجوع، ويكره عندهم المقام، ما كانوا فيه من جهل قوادهم بأقدارهم، وقلة معرفتهم بأخطارهم، وإغفالهم موضع الرد عليهم والانتفاع بهم، حتى جعلوهم أسوة أجنادهم، ولم يقنعوا أن يكونوا في الحاشية والحشوة، وفي غمار العامة ومن عرض العساكر، وأنفوا من ذلك لأنفسهم، وذكروا ما يجب لهم، ورأوا أن الضيم لا يليق بهم؛ وأن الخمول لا يجوز عليهم، وأنهم في المقام على من لا يعرف حقهم ألوم ممن منعهم حقهم، فلما صادفوا ملكا حكيما، وبأقدار الناس عليما، لايميل إلى سوءعادة ولايجنح إلى هوى، ولايتعصب لبلد على بلد؛ يدور مع التدبير حيثما دار، ويقيم مع الحق حيثما أقام، أقاموا إقامة من قد فهم الحظ، ودان بالحق ونبذ العادة، وآثر