Some of the righteous people said, advising a person to be careful not to cut yourself off from him, lest you be deceived. He said to him, “How can that be?” He said, “Because the deceived is the one who looks at his gifts and stops looking at him by looking at his gifts.” Then he said, “People are attached to causes, and the righteous are attached to the One who has the means.” Then he said a sign of their attachment. With gifts, they ask him for gifts. One of the signs of a friend’s heart being attached to the giver of gifts is that he pours gifts on him and is distracted by them. Then he said, “Let your dependence be on God in the moment, not on the situation.” Then he said, “Be wiser, for this is from the essence of monotheism.