قَالَ أَبُو عَبْدِ اللَّهِ ( عليه السلام ) رَحِمَ اللَّهُ عَبْداً عَفَّ وَ تَعَفَّفَ وَ كَفَّ عَنِ الْمَسْأَلَةِ فَإِنَّهُ يَتَعَجَّلُ الدَّنِيَّةَ فِي الدُّنْيَا وَ لَا يُغْنِي النَّاسُ عَنْهُ شَيْئاً قَالَ ثُمَّ تَمَثَّلَ أَبُو عَبْدِ اللَّهِ ( عليه السلام ) بِبَيْتِ حَاتِمٍ : إِذَا مَا عَرَفْتُ الْيَأْسَ أَلْفَيْتُهُ الْغِنَى * إِذَا عَرَفَتْهُ النَّفْسُ وَ الطَّمَعُ الْفَقْرُ
Translation
A number of our companions, from Ahmad Bin Abu Abdullah, from his father, from the one who mentioned it, from Al Husayn Bin Abu Al A’ala who said, ‘Abu Abdullah<sup>asws</sup> said: ‘Allah<sup>azwj</sup> Shows Mercy on a self-restraining chaste person who restrains from the begging, for it hastens the disgrace in the world and the people do not make him self-sufficient in anything from him. He (the narrator) said, ‘Then Abu Abdullah<sup>asws</sup> gave an example of a poem of Hatim: ‘When I recognised the despair I realised the riches; when the soul recognised it, the greed was the poverty’.
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