The ways of this world are strange.

The ways of this world are strange. It is said that the listed signs of hypocrisy number four: 1. When he speaks, he lies. 2. When he promises, he does not fulfill it. 3. He betrays a trust. 4. When he disagrees, he behaves wickedly (cursing, insulting). Hypocrisy is when the heart and the tongue are different from each other. Saying with the tongue “I am a believer” while not believing it in the heart. Some people are in close contact with respected, well-known or learned people. Sometimes (unfortunately) they enter into financial partnerships with them. But what would people of knowledge do with money? Does someone whose every thought is on knowledge have time to put money to work and make more money? Besides, sometimes the expected result does not come, for reasons that do not depend on the person. That is the first situation. The second situation is that people of knowledge, too, make human mistakes: anger, warranted or not; laziness; giving in to emotions… Naturally, it is not those who walk far away, outside, who witness this, but those who are close beside them. Then one of two things happens with them; there is no third. The first is to be patient, not to weary the person of knowledge, not to trouble him about money, but rather to try to solve the matter from another side; not to spread the scholar's mistakes to the world but to forgive them, and certainly to believe that the scholar repents and seeks forgiveness, and not to let one's sincere devotion falter; this noble deed is characteristic of people of high lineage, good upbringing and pure nature. The second is to ask the scholar for the money incessantly; using that as a pretext to treat him with disrespect; to rain down reproaches like “If he could, wouldn't he have done it?”; to backbite everywhere about the faults one has witnessed — this is done by those of low nature, the foolish and the common sort. It is pointless to blame the common and the base for such baseness, because they cannot do anything else — after all, the fly's work is to drop filth, making white black and black white. People of knowledge should be vigilant, should not draw unworthy people close, and should think before doing anything. On the whole, attacking people's reputation is characteristic of individuals of vile nature.