<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=512277" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Ch 08 On Rules For Conduct In Life - Maxim 01</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Property is for the comfort of life, not for the accumulation of wealth. A sage, having been asked who is lucky and who is not, replied: ‘He is lucky who has eaten and sowed but he is unlucky who has died and not enjoyed.’</div><div style="margin:10px 0"> Pray not for the nobody who has done nothing, <br> Who spent his life in accumulating property but has not enjoyed it. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Moses, upon whom be peace, thus advised Qaroon (Korah): ‘Do thou good as Allah has done unto thee.’ But he would not listen and thou hast heard of his end:</div><div style="margin:10px 0"> Who has not accumulated good with dirhems and dinars <br> Has staked his end upon his dirhems and dinars. <br> If thou desirest to profit by riches of the world <br> Be liberal to mankind as God has been liberal to thee. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">The Arab says: Be liberal without imposing obligations and verily the profit will return to thee.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"> Wherever the tree of beneficence has taken root <br> Its tallness and branches pass beyond the sky. <br> If thou art desirous to eat the fruit thereof <br> Do not put a saw to its foot by imposing obligations. <br> Thank God that thou hast been divinely aided <br> And not excluded from his gifts and bounty. <br> Think not thou conferrest an obligation on the sultan by serving him <br> But be obliged to him for having kept thee in his service.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Sa+di">Sa di</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=512277" data-title="Ch 08 On Rules For Conduct In Life - Maxim 01 de Sa di" data-description="Property is for the comfort of life, not for the accumulation of wealth. A sage, having been asked who is lucky and who is not, replied: ‘He is lucky who has eaten and sowed but he is unlucky who has died and not enjoyed.’ Pray not for the n..."></div> </div> </div>

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