and negligence. for with one of them which is negligence there is humiliation baseness meanness and disgrace as it leads a person to become dependent and a burden on others. and with the other there is toil that has no rest and endless slavery. that is because when a man seeks from his companion to give him something from what is in his hands without compensation or compensation he has humiliated himself and put himself in the place of someone who has been unable to earn due to time and deficiency. as for the one who does not set a limit for earning that he stops at and limits himself to then his service to people is many times better than their service to him and he remains in permanent slavery and servitude because of that. that is because the one who strives and tires himself out his entire life to earn what is in excess of his expenses and the amount of his need and to collect and hoard it has lost been deceived and enslaved without knowing it. that is because people have made money a sign and a stamp by which they know from each other what each one of them has earned through his striving and toil that is returned to everyone. if someone devotes himself to collecting stamps with his toil and effort and does not spend it on ways that will bring him comfort from peoples efforts for him and their sufficiency for him then he has lost been deceived and enslaved. this is because he has given toil and effort and did not replace it with sufficiency and comfort nor has he exchanged toil for toil and service for service but rather he exchanged what he did not find and did not benefit so his effort toil and sufficiency were granted to people and they enjoyed it and he missed out on peoples sufficiency for him and their toil for him and his enjoyment of them less than what he deserved from his sufficiency for them and his toil for them so he has lost been deceived and enslaved as we mentioned. so the goal in acquisition is the amount equivalent to the amount of spending and an additional surplus that is acquired and saved for calamities and incidents that prevent acquisition. then it will be
والتقصير. فإن مع أحدهما وهو التقصير الذلة والخساسة والدناءة والمهانة إذ كان يؤدي بالإنسان إلى أن يصير عيالا وكلا على غيره ومع الآخر الكد الذي لا راحة معه والعبودية التي لا انقضاء لها. وذلك أن الرجل متى رام من صاحبه أن ينيله شيئا مما في يديه من غير بدل ولا تعويض فقد أهان نفسه وأحلها محل من أقعدته الزمانة والنقص عن الاكتساب. وأما من لم يجعل للاكتساب حدا يقف عنده ويقتصر عليه فإن خدمته للناس تفضل على خدمتهم له أضعافا كثيرة، ولا يزال من ذلك في رق وعبودية دائمة. وذلك أن من سعى وتعب عمره كله باكتساب ما يفضل من المال عن نفقته ومقدار حاجته وجمعه وكنزه فقد خسر وخدع واستعبد من حيث لا يعلم. وذلك أن الناس جعلوا المال علامة وطابعا يعلم به بعضهم من بعض ما استحق كل واحد منهم بسعيه وكده العائد على الجميع. فإذا اختص أحدهم بجمع الطوابع بكده وجهده ولم يصرفها في الوجوه التي تعود بالراحة عليه من سعى الناس له وكفايتهم إياه كان قد خسر وخدع واستعبد. وذلك أنه أعطى كدا وجهدا ولم يستعض منه كفاية وراحة، ولا استبدل كدا بكد وخدمة بخدمة بل استبدل ما لم يجد ولم ينفع، فحصل جهده وكده وكفايته للناس فاستمتعوا به وفاته من كفاية الناس له وكدهم عليه واستمتاعه بهم دون قدر استحقاقه بكفايته لهم وكده عليهم، فقد خسر وخدع واستعبد كما ذكرنا. فالقصد في الاكتساب إذا هو المقدار الموازي لمقدار الإنفاق وزيادة فضلة تقتنى وتدخر للنوائب والحوادث المانعة من الاكتساب. فإنه يكون حينئذ