“Twas in Religion that he gloried by whom till the Day of Judgement
The Arabs excel the Persians in glory.
He who lacks religion is ignoble and mean,
Though Feridun be his maternal, and Jamshid his paternal uncle.”

— Nasir Khusraw

translated by Edward. G. Browne, A Literary History of Persia, 1909, p.268

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