the best of your partners is he who gives you what is pure and takes for himself what is cloudy. the best of your companions is he who relieves you of his burden brings you his assistance and is his fatigue upon him and his energy for you. the most honorable of your guests and the most grateful of your hopeful ones is he who does not think that you call the abundance of what you bear in your giving and consoling a burden nor does he consider your kindness to him a blessing but rather sees that the blessing of the grateful is above the blessing of the giver and the blessing of the sincere friend is above the blessing of the generous and selfsufficient and that he does not reach the good intention of the grateful and sincere and the true wish of the knowledgeable friend in giving all his wealth to his hopeful ones and those who seek it.
وخير شركائك من أعطاك ما صفا، وأخذ لنفسه ما كدر. وأفضل خلطائك من كفاك مؤونته، وأحضرك معونته، وكان كلاله عليه، ونشاطه لك. وأكرم دخلائك وأشكر مؤمليك من لا يظن انك تسمي جزيل مل تحتمل في بذلك ومواساتك مؤونة، ولا تتابع إحسانك إليه نعمة، بل يرى أن نعمة الشاكر فوق نعمة الواهب، ونعمة الواد المخلص فوق نعمةالجواد المغني؛ وأنه لا يبلغ في إعطاء المجهود من نفسه في خلع جميع ماله إلى مؤمليه والمتحرمين به، حسن نية الشاكر الوامق، وحق تمني الواد العارف.