Except that the best of abundance is the best of attaining it *** and the evil of the words of those who speak is its idleness

Have you not seen that a person is in a house in one language *** to another, and death is his path there?

And any communication is sufficient if it is abundant *** if it is not A little of it is enough for you.

The beds of the inhabitants of graves are beds *** in which the boyfriend will leave his girlfriend.

You provide the world with provisions for piety *** For every guest in it is imminently departing

And take a kit for the dead, there is no father for you. *** For the calamities that come will not deprive him

Some of them said, “I asked my teacher who of the people I should talk to and who should I live with, so he said, ‘You should talk to those whom you do not conceal what God knows about you, and give people your outward appearance and God your inwardness, and deal with them in a way that is best.’

In a story about some of the people of the state, some tourists said: I was passing through some of my travels in the land of the Levant when I passed by a river called the River of Gold, and I saw in the back of one of the villages of that river a hermitage with a monk in it, so I called him, “Monk, answer me,” but he did not answer me, so I called him the second time. O monk, answer me, but he did not answer me. So I called him the third time, O monk, answer me, or he said. So I called the third time, O my Lord, and he looked up and saw me and said to me, “What is your need and what do you want?” So I said to him, “A sermon or a commandment that I will benefit from,” and he said to me, “O, leave this world.” I said, “Yes,” and he said to me, “All my sustenance, and remain silent, and treat the soul, for you will die,” and he mentioned it. Standing in the hands of the living that does not die, then he said

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