🔹 People who do not adhere to the religion of the yazadan (divinities) are of two kinds: One, a deciever, and one, a decieved one:

- A deciever is a man who knows by himself that what he is doing should not be done; he does it out of greed and bodily desire.

- A decieved one is a man who believes that what he is doing stands in the righteousness, and he is doing it for the sake of the soul.

- Every deciever is druwand (sinner); a decieved one may even be ahlaw (redeemed). (274)

[The Wisdom of Sasanian Sages: Dēnkard VI; by Aturpāt-i Ēmētān, translated to English from Middle Persian/Pahlavi by Shaul Shaked, with a slight modification]

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