Post #548

"ولکنا وان کنا اهل فناء، فان علینا ان نعمل للبقاء ونحتال له الی امد الفناء." Though we are people doomed to perdition, we must strive for survival and find ways to deceive destruction until its proper time arrives. —Letter of Tōsar (Priest of Ardašēr Pābagān) to Gušnasp(King of Tabaristān), Al-Tanbīh wa-l-išrāf, A. Mas'udī, ed. A. Ṣāwī, Baqdad (1967), pp.86.