 hope is cut off truth dies and the truthful are killed. if they had not had speakers storytellers and people who differed from them in knowledge to some extent they would not have been included among the elite nor among the people of complete knowledge. but just as we differ from them we hope for them and just as we fear them we desire them.
ينقطع الطمع، ويموت الحق ويقتل المحق. فلولا أن لهم متكلمين، وقصاصا متفقهين، وقوما قد باينوهم في المعرفة بعض المباينة، لم يلحقوا بالخاصة، ولا بأهل المعرفة التامة. ولكنا كما نخالفهم نرجوهم، وكما نشفق منهم نطمع فيهم.