Just as poverty is preferred to God over richness in God, some of our sheikhs told me Abdullah Al-Qalfat on Turaif Island in the year five hundred and ninety, and there was discussion between us about the comparison between the rich and the poor, I mean the grateful rich and the patient poor, and it is a tabloid issue, and he was drawn into that in the case of poverty and wealth, so he said to me, “I attended some one.” The sheikhs told it to me on the authority of Abu Al-Rabi’, the blind man Al-Maliki, a student of Abu Al-Abbas bin Al-Arif Al-Sanhaji. He said, “If two men each had ten dinars, and one of them gave one dinar in charity from the ten, and the other gave nine dinars from the ten he had, which one is better?” Those present said, “Who gave the nine in charity?” He said, “What do you prefer?” They said to him, “Because he gave in charity more than what his friend gave in charity.” He said, “Good, but you have missed the spirit of the issue and missed you.” It was said to