خلاصه ماشینی:
Final Word O pen, if you do not speak the truth, your eloquence becomes a source of falsehood "When I sifted through the life stories of people and the records of kings, and read the histories of nations and the chronicles of time, I found in them things from which lessons can be drawn for what similar events always occur and what counterparts continuously unfold; such as the reports of the beginning of states and the emergence of kingdoms, and the cracks that subsequently appeared within them, and the actions of those who addressed those cracks so that they returned to the best of days, and the weakness of those who remained heedless of them and abandoned them until their affairs led to chaos and destruction; and reports of methods of this sort, such as efforts in developing the country,...
and what a group of people undertook before the sovereign and what others lagged behind in, and what had a pleasant beginning but an unpleasant end, and what was the opposite of this, or where its beginning and end were the same...
" "I saw it as good that if we find examples of such events in the past that predecessors have tested, they may serve as a guide for future generations.
" (Quoted from Tajarat al-Umam by Ibn Miskawayh, translated by Dr. Abu al-Qasim Imami, Vol. 1, p.
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