They said, ‘You’ve been disputed but yet you keep silent?’

I said, ‘Indeed a response will only be a key to the doors of evil.’

Remaining silent from an ignorant one is indeed a virtue

And in it is also reform and protection of honour.

Do you not see how the lion is feared, although he is silent?

And yet dogs are disgraced, but by God do they bark.

قالوا : سكت و قد خوصمت، قلت لهم: , ان الجواب لباب…