8. DIGNITY
I wonder at a person who despises humiliation! How can such a person not forebear eating hardened pieces of bread to avoid being under the (control and) mercy of the favours of the dirty. Does he not know that there are no more people of (genuine) generosity left?
And if he ever asks something from someone, that such person will be a miser who does not give away anything! And if he ever gives, he will enslave the one whom he helped for the rest of his lifetime!
Do you not know that the little he gives to you will eventually disappear, whereas the feeling of shame and self-guilt will remain with you as you allowed yourself to ask for help from a person who humiliates you for helping you as you will also have to glorify the giver forever.
Receiving such help will make you overlook the defects and wrongdoings of the giver, while ensuring to please and serve him for the rest of your life.
I even wonder more at those who could enslave free men by the too mortal little they give but never do so!
A free man is only enslaved with showing kindness!
(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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