1. and ibn hayyan said describing the unity of the situation between the two groups the affliction of people has remained since they were created in two classes of them they are like salt among them the princes and the jurists their forms rarely clash with their righteousness they are reformed and with their corruption they are destroyed. god almighty has distinguished this century in which we are from the crookedness of these two classes of theirs with us with what is insufficient and from which there is no escape. the unjust princes have led them astray from the path of the right path and the jurists their imams are silent about them turning away from what god has emphasized upon them in clarifying to them. they have become between eating their sweets wading into their whims and between feeling their fear and taking taqiyya in their truthfulness and those are the few among them. so what can be said about a land whose salt which is the reformer of all its foods has become corrupt! 2.
سباع، ويزينون لأهل الشر شرهم . وقال ابن حيان يصف وحدة الحال بين الفريقين ولم تزل آفة الناس مذ خلقوا في صنفين منهم، هم كالملح فيهم، الأمراء والفقهاء، قلما تتنافر أشكالهم، بصلاحهم يصلحون، وبفسادهم يردون، فقد خص الله تعالى هذا القرن الذي نحن فيه من اعوجاج صنفيهم لدينا هذين، بما لا كفاية له ولا مخلص منه، فالأمراء القاسطون قد نكبوا بهم عن نهج الطريق والفقهاء أئمتهم صموت عنهم، صدوف عما أكد الله عليهم في التبيين لهم، قد أصبحوا بين آكل من حلوائهم، خائض في أهوائهم، وبين مستشعر مخافتهم آخذ بالتقية في صدقهم، وأولئك هم الأقلون فيهم، فما القول في أرض فسد ملحها الذي هو المصلح لجميع أغذيتها! .