Grieve not over criticism from the jealous and the weak-minded

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You will be rewarded if you show forbearance to their criticism and to their impertinent remarks. The more they criticize you, the more you are increased in worth, because only someone who is unaccomplished has no one who is jealous of him, and according to the Arab saying,

“People do not kick a dead dog.” One poet said:

“They are jealous of he who has surpassed them; People show him enmity and opposition,

Just like spiteful women, who speak of the fair maiden, with jealousy and malice that she is of a low and base character.” Zuhayr said: