the holding that is leaving renunciation occurs through desire for what is held or without desire. People's states differ in this. Someone holding without desire is a renouncer entrusted with holding others' rights until he delivers them to their owners at the determined, established times. This may come through unveiling and sound knowledge of their individual owners, or it may not. In this condition he takes nothing of it for himself.
Those who hold through desire for what is held are two kinds of person. One has undoubtedly turned back from the station of renunciation because of an illness arising within his soul: he counts for nothing. The other kind consists of the prophets and the perfect among the friends of God. They hold through an insight of recognition producing something they passionately love because of the knowledge and adornment with perfection contained in holding, rather than through miserliness or weak certainty.
God sent upon Job a swarm of golden locusts. They fell upon him, and he began gathering them into his garment. God revealed to him, “Had I not made you free of need of this?” He replied, “I have no freedom from need of Your good.” Consider what his knowledge gave him.
Those who renounce do so only seeking more, and thus renounce less: “Say: the enjoyment of this world is little” [4:77]. Where, then, is renunciation? They leave this world only for fear that it will diminish their share in the Hereafter. This is desire and yearning themselves, in what one imagines
