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5
2421-2430

  • Every one takes steps to earn something and (thereby) helps other friends (to earn),
  • Because all the earning is not done by one (craftsman): (there is) a carpenter and also a water-carrier and a weaver.
  • By means of this partnership (the order of) the world is maintained: every one, (being impelled) by want, chooses some work.
  • ’Tis not right to be a lick-platter (idle parasite) in the midst (of them): the way of the Sunna is to work and earn.”
  • How the ass answered the fox, saying, “Trust in God is the best way of earning a livelihood, for every one needs to trust in God and cry, ‘O God, bring this work of mine to success’; and prayer involves trust in God, and trust in God is the (only) means of livelihood that is independent of any other means, etc.”
  • He (the ass) said, “In the two worlds I do not know any means of livelihood superior to trust in my Lord. 2425
  • I know nothing to be compared with the acquisition of thanksgiving to Him, in order that thanksgiving to God may bring (in its train) the daily bread and the increase (thereof).”
  • Their dispute was prolonged in mutual altercation (till) they became incapable of (further) questioning and answering.
  • Afterwards he (the fox) said to him, “Mark in the (Divine) kingdom the prohibition, ‘Do not cast yourselves into destruction.’
  • In a barren desert covered with stones self-denial is folly: God's world is wide.
  • Move from this place towards the meadow, and browse there on the verdure round about the river— 2430