I saw someone in the guise of dervishes, but not with their qualities, sitting in a gathering, making a commotion, opening a book of complaints, and beginning to criticize the wealthy. He brought the matter to the point that the dervish's hand of power is tied and the wealthy man's foot of devotion is broken.

The generous do not have dirhams in their hands

The possessors of blessings do not have generosity

This statement was hard for me, who was raised in the wealth of the great. I said: 'O friend, the wealthy are the income of the poor, the reserve of the recluses, the destination of pilgrims, the refuge of travelers, and the bearers of heavy burdens for the comfort of others. They only reach for food after their dependents and subordinates have eaten, and the excess of their virtues reaches widows, old people, relatives, and neighbors.'

The wealthy have endowments, vows, and hospitality

Zakat, Fitra, freeing slaves, gifts, and sacrifices

When will you reach their wealth when you cannot

Do anything but these two rak'ats (units of prayer), and even those with a hundred distractions?

Whether it is the power of generosity or the strength of prostration, it is easier for the wealthy to have purified wealth, clean clothes, protected honor, and a free heart, and the strength of obedience is in fine food, and the correctness of worship is in clean clothing. It is clear that what strength comes from an empty stomach, what generosity from an empty hand, what satiety from thirsty feet, and what good from hungry hands?

He who has no provision

Sleeps scattered at night

The ant gathers in summer

So that it has leisure in winter

Leisure does not combine with poverty, and peace of mind does not form in hardship. One has tied the ihram of Isha (night prayer), and one is waiting for supper. How can these ever be the same?

The possessor of wealth is occupied with the truth

The one with scattered livelihood has a scattered heart

Therefore, the worship of these (wealthy) is more worthy of acceptance because they are collected and present, not distracted and scattered-minded. They have provided the means of livelihood and are engaged in the recitations of worship. The Arabs say: 'I seek refuge in God from debilitating poverty and the neighborhood of one I do not love,' and it is narrated: 'Poverty is the blackness of the face in both worlds.' He said: 'Have you not heard that the Prophet, peace be upon him, said: "Poverty is my pride"?' I said: 'Be silent, for the Prophet, peace be upon him, referred to the poverty of a group who are men of the field of contentment and surrender to the arrow of fate, not these who wear the cloak of the righteous and sell the morsel of urine.'

O loud-sounding drum with nothing inside

What plan do you have at the time of preparation without provisions?

Turn your face of greed away from people if you are a man

Do not twist a thousand-bead rosary in your hand

An ignorant dervish will not rest until his poverty leads to disbelief. 'Poverty almost becomes disbelief,' for it is not possible except with the existence of wealth to clothe the naked or to strive for the release of the captive, and what can bring our fellow beings to their level, and what is the difference between the giving hand and the receiving hand? Do you not see that God Almighty, in the firm revelation, informs about the bliss of the people of Paradise, that 'They will have a known provision,' so that you may know that one occupied with just enough to get by is deprived of the wealth of chastity, and the realm of leisure is under the seal of a known provision.

To the thirsty, it appears in a dream

The whole world, in their eyes, is a spring of water

At the moment I said this, the dervish's reins of patience slipped from the hand of endurance. He drew the sword of his tongue and ran the horse of eloquence in the field of impudence and attacked me, saying: 'You have exaggerated so much in describing them and said such scattered words that imagination supposes they are a panacea or the key to the treasury of sustenance.'

A group of arrogant, conceited, self-admiring, and hateful people, occupied with wealth and blessings, infatuated with status and riches, who do not speak except with foolishness and do not look except with disgust. They attribute scholars to beggary and find fault with the poor for being destitute, and with the financial prestige they have and the status they imagine they have, they sit above everyone and see themselves as better than everyone, and they do not even consider bowing their heads to anyone, unaware of the saying of the wise that: 'Whoever is less in obedience than others and more in blessings is outwardly wealthy but inwardly a dervish.'

If a person without skill shows arrogance to a wise man with wealth

Consider his being like that of a donkey, even if he is a bull of ambergris

I said: 'Do not disapprove of these people, for they are lords of generosity.' He said: 'You are wrong; they are slaves of dirhams. What is the use, since they are like the clouds of Adhar (a month with little rain) and do not rain, and they are like the spring of the sun and do not shine on anyone. They are riders on the steed of ability and do not ride. They do not take a step for God and do not give a dirham without obligation and harm. They gather wealth with hardship and keep it with miserliness and leave it with regret, as the wise say: 'The miser's silver comes out of the earth when he goes into the earth.'

Someone brings wealth into his grasp with toil and effort

Someone else comes and takes it without effort and toil

I said to him: 'You have not become aware of the miserliness of the possessors of wealth except because of beggary. Otherwise, whoever puts aside greed, the generous and the miser will appear the same to him. The touchstone knows what gold is, and the beggar knows who the miser is.'

He said: 'I say that from experience, that they keep dependents at the door and appoint harsh guards so that they do not give access to dear ones and place their hands on the chests of discerning people and say there is no one here, and they would be telling the truth:'

He who has no intellect, ambition, planning, and opinion

The doorkeeper said well that there is no one in the house

I said: 'By way of excuse, because they are weary of the hands of expectants and are in lament from the pleas of beggars, and it is impossible according to reason that if the sand of the desert becomes pearls, the eyes of beggars will be filled.'

The eyes of those with greed for the wealth of the world

Will not be filled, just as a well with dew

Wherever you see someone who has endured hardship and seen bitterness, he throws himself greedily into frightening affairs and does not avoid the consequences of it and does not fear God's punishment and does not distinguish lawful from unlawful.

If a clod of dirt falls on a dog's head

It jumps for joy, thinking it is a bone

And if two people carry a corpse on their shoulders

A base person thinks it is a feast

But the possessor of worldly goods is observed with the very grace of God and is protected from lawful and unlawful. Since I have not yet explained this matter and have not brought forth proof of the statement, I expect fairness from you. Have you ever seen a hand of supplication tied to a shoulder, or a destitute person sitting in prison, or the veil of an innocent person torn, or a hand cut off at the wrist, except because of poverty? Valiant men have been captured in tunnels and their ankles have been rubbed raw due to necessity, and it is possible that if the commanding self demands something of one of the dervishes, if he does not have the strength to remain chaste, he will be afflicted with disobedience, for the belly and the genitals are twins, meaning they are children of one womb: as long as one is in place, the other is standing. I heard that a dervish was caught committing an evil act with an impurity. Although he suffered shame, he feared stoning. He said: 'O Muslims, I do not have the means to marry and do not have the patience to endure, what should I do? There is no monasticism in Islam.' And among the necessities of inner peace and tranquility that are available to the wealthy is that every night he embraces a beautiful one with whom he begins his youth anew every day; the shining morning has its hand on his heart from her beauty, and the swaying cypress has its feet in the mud from her grace.

He has plunged his claws into the blood of loved ones

He has made his fingertips jujube-colored (with blood)

It is impossible that with his beautiful appearance he would go around committing sins or intend to ruin himself.

A heart that a heavenly maiden has stolen and plundered

How can it pay attention to earthly idols?

Whoever has before him what he desires of fresh dates

That makes him independent of stoning the grape clusters

Most of the destitute stain the skirt of chastity with sin, and the hungry steal bread.

When a ferocious dog finds meat, it does not ask

Whether this is the meat of a righteous camel or the donkey of Dajjal (the Antichrist)

How many veiled women have fallen into corruption because of poverty and have given their precious honor to the wind of ill repute.

With hunger, the strength of abstinence does not remain

Poverty takes the reins of piety from the hand

If Hatem Tai, who was a desert dweller, had been a city dweller, he would have been miserable from the clamor of beggars, and they would have torn his clothes. He said: 'No, I have mercy on their condition.' I said: 'No, you are envious of their wealth.' We were in this conversation, and both were caught up in it. Every pawn he moved, I would try to repel it, and every checkmate he called, I would cover it with a queen until he lost the cash of his ambition and threw all the arrows of his quiver of argument.

Beware not to drop your shield from the attack of the eloquent

For he has nothing but that borrowed exaggeration

The religious and knowledgeable one who is a skilled rhymester

Has weapons at the door, and no one is inside the fortress

Until finally he had no more arguments, and I humiliated him. He stretched out his hand of aggression and began to speak nonsense, and it is the custom of the ignorant that when they are defeated by argument from an opponent, they start a chain of hostility; like Azar, the idol-maker, who could not overcome his son with argument, he rose up to fight him: 'If you do not desist, I will surely stone you,' he cursed me, I called him a worthless person. He tore my collar, I grabbed his chin.

He fell on me, and I on him

People running after us and laughing

The world's finger of astonishment

At our conversation and quarrel, on their teeth

In short, we took the dispute of this matter before a judge and agreed to the rule of justice so that the Muslim ruler would find a solution and distinguish between the wealthy and the poor. When the judge saw our trick and heard our logic, he lowered his head into the pocket of thought and after much contemplation, raised it and said: 'O you who praised the wealthy and inflicted injustice upon the poor, know that wherever there is a rose, there is a thorn, and with wine there is a hangover, and over treasure there is a snake, and where there is a royal pearl, there is a man-eating whale. The pleasure of worldly life has the sting of death behind it, and the bliss of paradise has the wall of hardship ahead.'

What can the oppression of the enemy do if the seeker of the friend is not killed?

Treasure and snake, rose and thorn, sorrow and joy are intertwined

Do you not see in the orchard that there is willow catkin and dry wood? Likewise, among the wealthy, there are grateful and ungrateful, and in the circle of the poor, there are patient and impatient.

If every drop of hail became a pearl

The market would be filled with them like beads

The close ones to God Almighty are wealthy with the nature of dervishes, and the dervishes are wealthy with ambition, and the greatest of the wealthy is the one who cares about the sorrow of the dervish, and the best of the dervishes is the one who takes little from the wealthy. 'And whoever relies on God - then He is sufficient for him.' Then he turned his reprimand from me to the dervish and said: 'O you who said that the wealthy are occupied and negligent and drunk with amusements, yes! There is a group with this quality that you described: short-sighted, ungrateful for blessings, who take and put away and do not eat and do not give, and even if, for example, rain does not fall or a storm takes over the world, relying on their wealth, they do not ask about the hardship of the dervish and do not fear God Almighty and say:'

If another perishes from poverty

I have wealth, what fear does a duck have of a storm?

And riders of swift she-camels in their litters

Do not pay attention to those who drowned in the sand dunes

When the base ones have pulled their own blankets out (of the water)

They say, what sorrow if the whole world dies?

A group is as you have heard, and another group has set the table of bounty and opened the hand of generosity, seeking name and knowledge and possessing both this world and the hereafter, like the servants of the just, supported, victorious, and triumphant king of the world, the owner of the reins of mankind, the protector of the borders of Islam, the heir to the kingdom of Solomon, the most just of the kings of the time, Muzaffar al-Dunya wa al-Din, Atabeg Abi Bakr Sa'd, may God prolong his days and support his banners.

A father would never show this generosity to his son

That your generous hand has done with the family of Adam

God wanted to bestow favor upon a world

He made you the king of the world with His mercy

When the judge brought the speech to this end and took the horse of exaggeration beyond our measure of comparison, we submitted to the decree of fate and forgave the past, and after the quarrel, we took the path of reconciliation and placed our heads at each other's feet in amends and kissed each other's heads and faces, and the conclusion of the speech was this:

Do not complain about the turning of the world, O dervish

Even if misfortune befalls a man in this way

O wealthy one, since your heart and hand are fulfilling your desires

Eat and give, for you have won both this world and the hereafter