 he says there are no parks in it and hunting is forbidden. rather there are traders there and traders are despised. he says they are among the people as weak and no king would consider it permissible to take what they live on and what is taken from them cannot stand up to the vicissitudes of kings. they are a people who do not resist. that is why the preislamic poet muawiyah ibn aws says
يقول ليس بها متنزهات، وصيدها حرام، وإنما بها تجار والتجار يحقرون. يقول هم عند الناس في حد الضعف ولا يستجيز ملك أخذ الذي به يتعيشون، ولا يكون ما يؤخذ منهم يقوم بنوائب الملوك، وهم قوم ليس عندهم امتناع. ولذلك يقول الشاعر معاوية بن أوس، وهو جاهلي