on its behalf, and I rose up to make its proof manifest, to strive in its defense, and to encourage people toward it. So if these people dare to speak against me, what will they do to others?!

Even if a Jew were to ask the sultan for justice, the sultan would be obliged to give it to him. As for me, I might pardon my personal right—or I might not (1); indeed, I may demand justice (2) from him, and have those who are lying [ق 76] brought in so that they may be legally confronted (3) about their fabrications.

I said even more than this (4), in the same vein, but it has been a long time since then.

The amir then signaled to the court clerk (5), Muḥyī al-Dīn, to record it (6).

I also said, “Anyone who disagrees with me about anything I have written—I know his own school better than he does.”

I do not know whether I said this before it was brought in or afterward; yet I also said (7)—once it had been produced and read—“There is not a single section in it without someone, counted among those who face the qibla, who opposes it; and every sentence in it is disputed by one faction or another.”