26. SECURE YOUR INCOME
I notice that most people of knowledge (‘ulama) are too busy in their time of youth seeking knowledge to seek the means of provision. When they receive no financial help from the public treasury (bayt al-mdl), and the aid they receive from friends is inadequate to cover their needs, they become in need of what cannot be overlooked in life, so they become compelled to humiliate themselves by begging others for help.
This scenario made me think of only two reasons of wisdom behind it:
■ The first of which is to subdue their [potential] ego [resulting from acquiring the knowledge] with this humiliation.
■ The second of which is to benefit others from the reward they will receive in return for helping them.
I then further thought deeply about it and came to notice an interesting meaning in this regard that is: a lofty person will not let this worldly life settle in his heart after witnessing its low-condition, hence he becomes more determined and striving because by then, he realises its similarity’ with a waste yard that dogs fight over or a toilet that only a person attends when he has to.
Consequently when death arrives to take this soul away from this world, the heart will have no attachment to it hence it becomes very easy to give up.
(source: al-Hafiz Abu’l-Faraj ibn al-jawzl [d. 597AH] “CAPTURED THOUGHTS being” a translation of his masterpiece ‘Sayd al-K hatir)
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