{"collection":"Islam","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/isl/arw/arw45.htm","path":"isl/arw/arw45.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/isl/arw/arw45.htm","text":"Arabian Wisdom, by John Wortabet, [1913]\nTo God alone I make my plaint of sorrow and grief (Koran 12, 86).\nTo bewail grief, except to God, is an humiliation.\nLamentation is the weapon of the weak.\nA good man sees his own faults and is blind to the faults of others.\nCensure your friend by kindness, and return the evil which he may have done to you by acts of favour.\nTo blame a friend is better than to lose him.\nNo man is free from faults.\nIf you count your friend's faults you will have no friend left.\nAn absent man has his apology with him.\nHe who compels you to blame him has made up his mind to forsake you.\nOpen blame is better than secret malice.\nBlame not, nor boast, until a year and a half shall have passed away.\nHe who has a needle under his arm it will prick him.\nThere is no wood which has no smoke in it.\nAmong all snakes there is not one that is good.\nYou are your own enemy.","title":"Arabian Wisdom: Complaint, Blame","type":"page"}