Unreached is the food you haven't strived for, and whatever you have set your hand to will be attained.

Have you heard that Alexander went to the darkness?

With much hardship, he drank the water of life who drank it.

O seeker of sustenance, sit and eat, and O sought by death, do not move for you will lose your life.

Whether you strive for sustenance or not,

God, the Almighty, will provide it.

Even if you go into the mouth of a lion or a leopard,

They will not …

Two things are impossible for reason: eating more than the allotted provision and dying before the predetermined time.

Fate does not change, even if there are a thousand groans and sighs,

Whether through blasphemy or complaint from the mouth.

The angel who is the guardian of the treasures of the …

Do not ask a weak and needy poor man how he is doing during a time of drought, unless you are prepared to heal his wounds and help him.

If you see a donkey with its load stuck in the mud,

Have compassion in your heart, but do not walk …

Whoever is not fed during their life, their name is not remembered when they die.

The pleasure of the grape is known by the widow, not the owner of the fruit.

Joseph the Truthful, peace be upon him, did not eat his fill during the famine in Egypt so that …

Satan cannot overcome the sincere, and the king cannot overcome the poor.

Do not lend to the one who does not pray,

Even if his mouth is open with hunger.

For he who neglects God's commands,

Will also not care about your debt.

Today he will take two handfuls of …

Life is sustained for a moment, and the world exists between two nonexistences.

They sell religion for the world, but what do they buy with the price of Joseph?

Did I not command you, O children of Adam, not to worship Satan?

You broke the promise of a friend for …

A sin is disgraceful from anyone, but worse from scholars; for knowledge is the weapon in the battle against Satan, and when the bearer of this weapon is taken captive, it brings greater shame.

An ignorant commoner with a troubled life

Is better than a learned person who lacks piety. …

A learned person should not overlook the foolishness of the ignorant with patience, for it harms both sides: the scholar's dignity diminishes, and the ignorant's folly becomes entrenched.

If you speak kindly and pleasantly with a lowly person,

Their arrogance and obstinacy increase.

Little by little becomes a lot, and drop by drop becomes a flood. This means those who do not have power should keep their small stones until the opportunity arises to take revenge on the oppressor.

A drop upon a drop, if they come together, becomes a stream,

And a …

A noble person who eats and gives is better than a worshipper who fasts and hoards. Whoever forsakes desires for the sake of people's approval has fallen from lawful desire into unlawful desire.

A worshipper who sits in seclusion not for God's sake,

Poor soul, what can he see in …

Reason is so ensnared by desire as a helpless man is by a cunning woman. Counsel without power is trickery and deception, and power without counsel is ignorance and madness.

Discernment, planning, and wisdom are needed, and then a kingdom,

For the rule and reign of the ignorant is God's …