abu bakr alrazi may god join his soul to the soul and comfort said when some people of insight discernment and learning saw us interacting with people and dealing with aspects of livelihood they criticized us and belittled us and claimed that we deviated from the conduct of philosophers especially from the conduct of our imam socrates who is said to have not visited kings and treated them lightly if they visited him nor did he eat delicious food nor did he wear luxurious clothes nor did he build nor did he acquire nor did he have children nor did he drink wine nor did he attend entertainment but rather he was limited to eating hashish wrapping himself in tattered clothing and taking refuge with a lover in the wilderness. he also did not use taqiyya for the common people or the ruler but rather he confronted them with what was right in his view in the clearest and most explanatory words. as for us we are the opposite of that. then they said about the disadvantages of this conduct that our imam socrates followed that it is contrary to what is in the course of nature and the foundation of cultivation and offspring and it calls for the ruin of the world and the destruction and demise of people. and we will answer them with what we have in that god willing so we say as for what they have attributed to socrates and mentioned they have spoken the truth and that was from him but they were ignorant of other things from him and deliberately left mentioning them because of the obligation of the place of proof upon us. that is because these matters that they attributed to socrates were from him at the beginning of his affair for a long period of his life then he moved away from many of them until he died leaving daughters and fought the enemy and attended gatherings of amusement and ate good things except meat and drank a little alcohol. that is known and transmitted to those who are concerned with investigating the news of this man and what was from him was
قال أبو بكر الرازي ألحق الله روحه بالروح والراحة إن ناسا من أهل النظر والتمييز والتحصيل لما رأونا نداخل الناس ونتصرف في وجوه من المعاش عابونا واستنقصونا وزعموا أنا حائدون عن سيرة الفلاسفة ولا سيما عن سيرة إمامنا سقراط المأثور عنه أنه كان لا يغشى الملوك ويستخف بهم إن هم غشوه ولا يأكل لذيذ الطعام ولا يلبس فاخر الثياب ولا يبني ولا يقتني ولا ينسل ولا لحما ولا يشرب خمرا ولا يشهد لهوا بل كان مقتصرا على أكل الحشيش والالتفاف في كساء خلق والإيواء إلى حب في البرية، وأنه أيضا لم يكن يستعمل التقية للعوام ولا للسلطان بل يجابههم بما هو الحق عنده بأشرح الألفاظ وأبينها. وأما نحن فعلى خلاف ذلك. ثم قالوا في مساوئ هذه السيرة التي سار بها إمامنا سقراط إنها مخالفة لما عليه مجرى الطبع وقوام الحرث والنسل وداعية إلى خراب العالم وبوار الناس وهلاكهم. وسنجيبهم بما عندنا في ذلك إن شاء الله فنقول أما ما أثروه عن سقراط وذكروه فقد صدقوا وقد كان ذلك منه، لكنهم جهلوا منه أشياء أخر وتركوا ذكرها تعمدا لوجوب موضع الحجة علينا. وذلك أن هذه الأمور التي أثروها عن سقراط قد كانت منه في ابتداء أمره إلى مدة طويلة من عمره، ثم انتقل عن كثير منها حتى إنه مات عن بنات وحارب العدو وحضر مجالس اللهو وأكل الطيبات إلا من اللحم وشرب يسير المسكر. وذلك معلوم مأثور عند من عني باستقصاء أخبار هذا الرجل وإنما كان منه