you have advanced in deceit and have outdone yourself in plotting against me until you have taken charge of that in my small books and in what you do not care about in the continuity of my affairs. i have learned that study is for the night and that the… is for the day and that books are not read except at night while the fires are shining and the lamps are brought near. i have learned that whoever has weak eyesight and whose sight is exhausted he is always closer to a lamp and greater to a fire. and that the one who is burning and scorched the one who is inflamed and miserable and the one who is falling down if he is a man of books and study he will not find…
ولقد تقدمت في المكر واستظهرت علي في الكيد، حتى توليت ذلك في صغار كتبي وفيما لا تحفل به من دوام أمري، وعلمت أن الدرس لليل وأن الاللنهار، وأن الكتاب لايقرأ إلا ليلا والنيران زاهرة، والمصابيح مقربة. وعلمت أن كل من ضعف بصره وكل نظره، فإنه أبدا أقرب مصباحا واعظم نارا. وأن المحرور المحترق، والممرور الملتهب، والبائس المتهافت، إذا كان صاحب كتب ودرس، أنه لا يجد