{"collection":"Islam","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/isl/arw/arw39.htm","path":"isl/arw/arw39.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/isl/arw/arw39.htm","text":"Arabian Wisdom, by John Wortabet, [1913]\nOf all men God abhors most an implacable enemy.\nOf all things nothing is so bad as the making of enemies.\nOf all evils nothing is so hard to be borne as the triumph of an enemy.\nRejoice not over a fallen man\u2014he may rise and you may fall.\nDespise no enemy, however insignificant he may be\u2014see how the shadow of the earth causes an eclipse of the moon, or how a midge brings a tear to the eye of a lion.\nHe who makes enemies shall have many a restless night.\nHe who has many enemies, let him expect a downfall.\nWhen anger is repressed by reason of inability to do immediate harm, it retires into the heart in the form of malice and breeds these vices\u2014envy, triumph over the enemy's ill, repulsion of friendly approaches, contempt, slander, derision, personal violence, and injustice.","title":"Arabian Wisdom: Hatred, Malice","type":"page"}