Note 158 — IBRAHIM BIN AL-MAHDI AND THE BARBER-SURGEON.
Richard Francis Burton translation
Al-Maamum was a man of sense with all his fanaticism. One of his sayings is preserved, “Odious is contentiousness in Kings; more odious vexation in judges uncomprehending a case; yet more odious is shallowness of doctors in religions and most odious are avarice in the rich, idleness in youth, jesting in age and cowardice in the soldier.”