Calligraphed scorpion, mid-19th c, attributed to Bahadur Shah Zafar:
It reads:
نیش عقرب نه از ره کینه است
مقتضای طبیعتش این است
”Scorpion’s stinging is not out of aversion. It is [unintentionally] required by his nature.”
Via Prashant Keshavmurthy few years ago 
