especially his book which he called the science of stargazing 1 and from what we have mentioned some of it at the end of the book you will know that they did not specialize in that more than the farmers of every region. but the man is excessive in what he delves into and is not free from mountainous morals in his tyranny of opinion. his words in this mentioned book indicate resentment and tension between him and the persians as he was not satisfied with the preference of the arabs over them until he made them the most despicable vile and contemptible of nations and he described them as infidels and opponents of islam more than god described the arabs in surat attawbah and he attributed to them ugly things that if he thought a little and remembered the first ones who were preferred over them he would lie about himself in most of what he said about the two groups excessively and transgressively.
وخاصة كتابه الذى وسمه بعلم مناظر النجوم ١ ومما أوردنا بعضه فى آخر الكتاب، لعلمت أنهم لم يختصوا من ذلك بأكثر مما اختص فلاحو كل بقعة. ولكن الرجل مفرط فيما يخوض فيه، وغير خال عن الأخلاق الجبلية فى الاستبداد بالرأى. وكلامه فى هذا الكتاب المذكور يدل على إحن وترات بينه وبين الفرس إذ لم يرض بتفضيل العرب عليهم حتى جعلهم أرذل الامم وأخسها وأنذلها؛ ووصفهم بالكفر ومعاندة الإسلام بأكثر مما وصف الله به الأعراب فى سورة التوبة، ونسب إليهم من القبائح ما لو تفكر قليلا وتذكر أوائل من فضل عليهم، لكذب نفسه فى أكثر ما قاله فى الفريقين تفرطا وتعديا ه.