They said to Hormoz: What fault did you see in your father's ministers that you ordered them imprisoned? He said: I did not find any specific fault, but I saw that my awe in their hearts was immense, and they did not have complete trust in my promise. I feared that, fearing for their own safety, they would plan my destruction, so I acted upon the words of the wise, who have said:

Fear the one who fears you, O wise one,

Even if you fight a hundred like him.

That is why the snake bites the shepherd's foot,

Because it fears that its head will be crushed with a stone.

Do you not see that when a cat becomes helpless,

It raises its claws to the eyes of a leopard?