the second is that he remains with greed and inclination towards the world and its causes and pleasures and the tool has been taken away from him for the body is the tool for reaching those pleasures so his state is like that of someone who loves a woman and has acquired leadership and finds comfort in children and finds comfort in wealth and rejoices in modesty so he kills his beloved is removed from his leadership his children and women are taken captive his wealth is taken by his enemies and his modesty is completely lost so he suffers from pain that is not hidden and in this life he is not without hope of returning to such things for the world is a place of coming and going so how is it if hope is cut off by the loss of the body due to death?
والثاني أنه يبقى معه الحرص والميل إلى الدنيا وأسبابها ولذاتها وقد استلب منه الآلة فإن البدن هو الآلة للوصول إلى تلك اللذات فيكون حاله حال من عشق امرأة وألف رئاسة واستأنس بأولاد واستروح إلى مال وابتهج بحشمة فقتل معشوقه وعزل عن رئاسته وسبي أولاده ونساؤه وأخذ أمواله أعداؤه وأسقط بالكلية حشمته فيقاسي من الألم ما لا يخفى، وهو في هذه الحيوة غير منقطع الأمل عن عود أمثال هذه الأمور فإن الدنيا غاد ورائح فكيف إذا انقطع الأمل بفقدان البدن بسبب الموت.