106 - 'Abd Allāh narrated to us, saying: Abū Zakarīyā al-Khath'amī recited to me:
May no blessing come to your miserable time, which places the tails above the heads!
If I am, in your view, a liar in what I say, then whenever you pass by a gathering or assembly,
cast your gaze: do you see any leader to whom the discernment of the insightful looks up?
Or do you see among its people anyone who buys a noble deed for glory with five copper coins?
O Lord, if the miser is preoccupied with my fault, then transfer his preoccupation to a bankrupt neighbor!
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