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Saadi tells us:
A beggar from the Maghreb — the western lands — was once standing among the cloth merchants of Aleppo.
He cried out,
“O people of fortune!
If only you had fairness,
and we had contentment,
then begging would vanish from the world.”
And Saadi adds these verses:
O Contentment, make me rich,
for beyond you there is no greater treasure.
The corner of patience is the choice of Luqman the Wise —
for whoever lacks patience, lacks wisdom.