1. is the condition of one who has spent all his wealth and has seen the misfortune of his dependents and his poverty has become apparent and his enemy has rejoiced over him more than the turning away of his companions and the hatred of his dependents and the roughness of his clothing and the roughness of his food and all this is combined in the grip of the miser and poured on the head of the stingy and hastened the miserliness and is constant in withholding. however the spender has gained praise and has withheld the blessing and has not neglected his ability and has fulfilled each of these qualities its right and has provided it with its share and the withholder is tormented by his confinement and by toiling for others with the necessity of argument and the loss of ambition and exposure to blame and humiliation and with the black bitterness ruling in his soul and its dominance over his honor and enabling it to live and delight his heart.
غير لذة ١ . وهل يزيد حال من أنفق جميع ماله، ورأى المكروه في عياله، وظهر فقره وشمت به عدوه، على أكثر من انصراف المؤنسين عنه، وعلى بغض عياله ٢ ، وعلى خشونة الملبس، وجشوبة المأكل ٣ وهذا كله مجتمع في مسك ٤ البخيل، ومصبوب على هامة ٥ الشحيح، ومعجل للئيم، وملازم للمنوع. إلا أن المنفق قد ربح المحمدة، وتمنع بالنعمة، ولم يعطل المقدرة، ووفى كل خصلة من هذه حقها، ووفر عليها نصيبها، والممسك معذب بحصر نفسه، وبالكد لغيره، مع لزوم الحجة، وسقوط الهمة، والتعرض للذم والإهانة، ومع تحكيم المرة السوداء في نفسه ٦ ، وتسليطها على عرضه، وتمكينها من عيشه وسرور قلبه.