شَكَا رَجُلٌ إِلَى أَبِي عَبْدِ اللَّهِ ( عليه السلام ) أَنَّهُ يَطْلُبُ فَيُصِيبُ وَ لَا يَقْنَعُ وَ تُنَازِعُهُ نَفْسُهُ إِلَى مَا هُوَ أَكْثَرُ مِنْهُ وَ قَالَ عَلِّمْنِي شَيْئاً أَنْتَفِعْ بِهِ فَقَالَ أَبُو عَبْدِ اللَّهِ ( عليه السلام ) إِنْ كَانَ مَا يَكْفِيكَ يُغْنِيكَ فَأَدْنَى مَا فِيهَا يُغْنِيكَ وَ إِنْ كَانَ مَا يَكْفِيكَ لَا يُغْنِيكَ فَكُلُّ مَا فِيهَا لَا يُغْنِيكَ .
Translation
From, from Ibn Fazzal, from Ibn Bakeyr, from Hamza Bin Humran who said, ‘A man complained to Abu Abdullah<sup>asws</sup> that he seeks, so he attains but is not content and his heart contends with him to what is more than it, and he said, ‘Teach me something I can be content with it’. So Abu Abdullah<sup>asws</sup> said: ‘If it was what suffices you, it would enrich you what is the least of what is in it, and if it was what does not suffice you, it would not enrich you, so (even) whatever is in it (the world) would not suffice you’.
Compiled by Shaykh Muhammad ibn Ya'qub al-Kulayni
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