Translations:Yirmi Altıncı Mektup/248/en

[The three other signs denote earnest and constant friends who in order to find favour with the worldly5 and achieve some worldly goal, and so that they could feel confident, temporaril y failed to display the manly stance demanded by friendship. However, regretably, all those three friends were punished in ways that were the opposite of what they had intended.]