the admirer and this is one of the strange things that occurs in this regard and it is something that our common people call the ignorant discrimination and we often see it in women and in those whose minds are close to their minds among men and it is strange for someone who has no trait at all neither knowledge nor courage nor high status nor noble lineage nor wealth that makes him arrogant and he knows with that that he is worthless in all of that because these matters are not erred in by those who throw stones but rather err in them by those who have the slightest share of them so perhaps he imagines if he is weak in mind that he has reached the ultimate goal of them like someone who has a share of knowledge so he thinks that he is a complete scholar or like someone who has a lineage rooted in darkness and you find that they were not lofty in their injustice so you find that if he was the son of pharaoh of the pegs he would not have increased his admiration that is in him or he had some chivalry so he could defeat ali and capture alzubayr and kill khalid or he had some despicable prestige that he would not see alexander in a state or he was strong enough to gain what is available in his hand is a better choice about his strength if he were to take the horns of the sun he would not increase what he is in. and one does not often wonder at these people even if they are wonders but from those who have noticed that he has no knowledge at all nor lineage at all nor money nor prestige nor assistance. rather we see him in the care of others despising everyone who has the slightest energy and he knows that he is devoid of all of that and that he has noticed something of it for him and then he is with that in a state of arrogance and vanity.
المعجب، وهذا من عجيب ما يقع في هذا الباب، وهو شيء يسميه عامتنا التمييز المتمندل وكثيرا ما نراه في النساء وفيمن عقله قريب من عقولهن من الرجال، وهو عجب من ليس فيه خصلة أصلا، لا علم ولا شجاعة ولا علو حال ولا نسب رفيع ولا مال يطغيه وهو يعلم مع ذلك انه صفر من ذلك كله، لأن هذه الأمور لا يغلط فيها من يقذف بالحجارة ، وإنما يغلط فيها من له أدنى حظ منها، فربما يتوهم إن كان ضعيف العقل انه قد بلغ الغاية القصوى منها، كمن له حظ من علم، فهو يظن أنه عالم كامل، أو كمن له نسب معرق في ظلمة، وتجدهم لم يكونوا أيضا رفعاء في ظلمهم، فتجده لو كان ابن فرعون ذي الأوتاد ما زاد على إعجابه الذي فيه، او له شيء من فروسية فهو يقدر انه يهزم عليا ويأسر الزبير ويقتل خالدا، أو له شيء من جاه رذل لا يرى الاسكندر على حال، أو يكون قويا على أن يكسب، ما يتوفر بيده مويل يفضل عن قوته، فلو أخذ بقرني الشمس لم يزد على ما هو فيه. وليس يكثر العجب من هؤلاء وإن كانوا عجبا، لكن ممن لاحظ له من علم أصلا، ولا نسب البتة، ولا مال ولا جاه ولا نجدة، بل نراه في كفالة غيره مهتضما لكل من له أدنى طاقة، وهو يعلم أنه خال من كل ذلك، وأنه لاحظ له في شيء منه، ثم هو مع ذلك في حالة المزهو التياه.